- - HYPERSONIC MISSILE PROLIFERATION: AN EMERGING EUROPEAN PROBLEM?

the HCM with a rocket booster adapted from a Kh22 (RS-AS-4 Kitchen) AShM, a suitable test range, and the United Kingdom use of a Russian Tupolev Tu22 M3 Backfire bomber aircraft from which to launch the missile.53 Whether Despite overseeing several research and development this test took place in Russia as planned is uncertain projects to explore Mach 5+ propulsion in the early and the extent to w. [...] The project incorporated 14 objective was to continue earlier work from LAPCAT participants from France, Germany, Italy, Romania, in establishing the viability of a Mach 5+ hypersonic Sweden and the UK and resulted in the development of glider as a passenger aircraft. [...] The purpose of high-speed technology to avoid what the project these projects was to identify and evaluate advanced report identifies as the ‘great risk to allow the USA in air-breathing engines that could be used in commercial particular to obtain a certain monopoly and control aircraft at speeds between Mach 4 and Mach 8. [...] One of the four clear that once the technology is sufficiently mastered Russian aerospace organizations participating in for military application, the corresponding industries the project, the Moscow Institute of Physics and will also apply their knowledge also to the design of Technology (MIPT) was labelled as a Military civil high-speed commercial transport vehicles’.90 End-User by the US Treasu. [...] The control of this equipment is less stringent The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls than Category I items and is subject to licensing for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and requirements and casebycase decisions which consider Technologies provides an additional layer of the non-proliferation factors specified in the MTCR supply-side restraints.