A British weapons expert developing advanced ballistic capabilities for the country’s armed forces has been on lecture tours in China, it has been revealed.
Clive Woodley gave talks to Chinese arms industry leaders in Beijing while working as a principal scientist at the security company Qinetiq—a contractor for the UK’s Ministry of Defence.
And last October, Woodley—a visiting researcher at the Institute of Shock Physics at Imperial College in London—spoke at a conference in east China, focusing on “a new chapter in the development of artillery, shells, and missiles.”
In the audience taking notes were leading figures in the Chinese weapons industry, according to online magazine, Unherd….