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Why do nations target the engineers behind their rivals' most advanced technologies? - Under Hitler's wartime regime, Nazi Germany developed the V-2, the world's first operational long-range liquid-fuel ballistic missile. Its engine consumed 130 kilograms of propellant every second. - Turbopumps forced fuel and liquid oxygen into a combustion chamber reaching 2,700°C. Extreme pressures, violent vibrations and thermal stresses had to be controlled simultaneously. - Modern high-performance engines are even more demanding. Cryogenic propellants, precision valves, specialised alloys and intricate cooling systems must work together. One critical defect can destroy an entire rocket. - Building an engine is only half the challenge. Perfecting its efficiency, reducing weight and achieving consistent reliability demand years of experimentation. Every failed test consumes money, materials and engineering time. - America's Saturn V F-1 engine illustrates this. Despite understanding the physics, engineers conducted roughly 3,200 full scale tests to overcome destructive combustion instability. - When Nazi Germany collapsed in 1945, the Americans shipped components for roughly 100 V-2 rockets home and recruited German engineers. The Soviets also acquired machinery, technical documentation and specialists. France recruited German rocket engineers too. - The knowledge spread further. In the 1950s, the Soviets supplied China with missiles, rocket engine technology, blueprints and technical experts. India later benefited from French liquid engine technology. Both subsequently developed advanced capabilities of their own. - This is why engineers and scientists become prime targets for industrial espionage. Chinese intelligence officer Yanjun Xu targeted aerospace specialists through paid technical presentations, seeking proprietary engineering knowledge from companies including GE Aviation. - The real prize is often knowledge that drawings cannot convey failed experiments, manufacturing processes and the engineering judgment accumulated over decades. Acquiring it can shorten an otherwise enormously expensive development journey. A century after the first liquid-fuel rocket, only 12 countries have ever demonstrated independent orbital-launch capability. Understanding the physics is one thing. Mastering the technology, reproducing it reliably and developing what comes next is another. That hard won human expertise is precisely what makes the people behind strategic technologies so valuable.

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