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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.show more

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Herr Kerls1 day ago

Todays mostly targeted engineers are at Zeiss in Germany.

Ammanichanda1 day ago

- ASML - Carl Zeiss - TSMC - SpaceX - NVIDIA - Lockheed Martin - Palantir - Northrop Grumman - Applied Materials - KLA Corporation

Ed Tate1 day ago

“The real prize is often knowledge that drawings cannot convey failed experiments, …” This! In a mature company with a good engineering team this is the most valuable part of the experience working there. At some point, each of those failed experiments looked like the right thing to do. When projects were put on the shelf, people rarely share why it was cancelled. That is the gold buried in experience and culture. Knowing costly detours to avoid is key in catching up to a competitor. Also, as technology, compute, materials, and manufacturing advance, knowing why something failed in the past is the key to bringing abandoned ideas to back to life.

Golu1 day ago

The teams that beat them were recruited, not out-engineered: the one battlefield where the winner signs the loser's engineers is the reason this question keeps getting asked.

tmallard1 day ago

Me not on their list ? Lol ... Me good at spray-on self-energizing skins And gamma, put an emitter on Blackbird's nose, some axial to clear wings & tail why it can't ? **Attains 25-Mach in 1-atm to 0-hPa's** Taking bets, by your odds with why, any view, the winner wins ! Why, the gamma simply heats the air expands it plane must follow, one can use it to steer one mistake you're molecules & a bright flash It gets used up doing it so hard to track 🦆

Александр Киршин16 hours ago

Интересно пишет: " американцы отправили домой." "Советский Союз.. захватил". Чувствуете разницу?

Chris Ugosky1 day ago

Even drone technology origins hadn't been comprehensively documented. Amongst it's earliest developers were the defunct Biafran Research And Production units 1967-70 that dubbed it "press button" technology. Neither military nor technological history documented that

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