China bypassing American prohibitions on hypersonic weapons development technology - WP

Through the gasket companies, China gets access to the high-tech programs that are needed to develop supersonic missiles. Despite the US export control, China has learned to go through private companies. About it reports The Washington Post. The advanced US software products, bypassing export control, are purchased by Chinese private companies. They resale technologies further to China for their developments.

China receives highly specialized software for aviation equipment and a number of military technologies. This allows them to fill critical gaps in domestic technologies and is the key to achieving in Chinese weapons. Some American companies that have received pentagon grants for the development of military technologies are resold to China for hypersonic weapons missile program.

The Washington Post has compared more than 300 sales since 2019 of American origin of dozens of organizations involved in hypersonic or missile programs of China, analyzing contractual tender and awarded documents issued by groups, and by six Chinese scientists. described their research. Hypersonic weapons are a future military development. Such rockets are extremely difficult to intercept due to exceeding their speed more than 5 times the speed of sound.

Currently, the US and China are in the hypersonic weapon development race. In order to build such rockets, scientists need to solve a number of physical tasks related to the flight of rockets. The authors give an example where Zona Technology and Metacomp Technologies were developing through resellers at the Chinese Aerospace Aerosmic Aerodynamics (Saaa).

According to two Chinese military scientists, acquaintances with the program, Caaa played an important role in developing testing of hypersonic missiles in China in 2021. However, it was not possible to determine whether the US software was used in the process of missiles for this test. In addition, Zona Technology and Metacomp Technologies received grants from Petnaagon. So at the expense of US taxpayers China develops hypersonic weapons.