The Weekly Debrief: Russian Security Forces Target Hypersonic Scientists

Despite low pay, backward infrastructure and deepening suspicions, Russian scientists helped test and deploy the first hypersonic glide vehicle in late 2019.
Credit: Kremlin Press Center
The Great Purge of Soviet Premier Josef Stalin’s real and imagined rivals in 1937 fell hard on several of the USSR’s best aircraft designers. On Oct. 21, 1937, the entire directorate of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) was arrested. Many of the scientific agency’s directors were...

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