Australia’s role in transferring sensitive US military programs to Iran, China and Russia

According to RCO News Agency, “Artix”, a multinational arms manufacturing company based in the United States, which is referred to as a defense equipment giant, illegally transferred technology to Australia, and some of its employees also took their work laptops, which contain sensitive military secrets, to Russia and were Iran, they violated the strict laws of the United States.

Artix, formerly known as Raytheon, was fined last week for 750 violations of the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), including by exchanging data and products with banned countries such as China. Agreed to a million dollar fine.

US State Department documents show that several of the reported violations involved the unauthorized export of classified defense articles to Australia and other countries related to military programs such as the Tomahawk cruise missile and the RIM-162 SeaSparrow Advanced Missile.

Also, from 2017 to 2022, several ARTIX employees traveled to “prohibited destinations” such as Russia and Iran, where they accessed their work laptops containing information about sensitive US military programs, including the Aegis ballistic missile defense system, the B-bomber. 2 Spirit and F-35 fighter planes.

Another such breach involved providing Chinese citizens with information about an aluminum F-22 Raptor fighter jet display housing in Shanghai, data that later turned out to be more sensitive than ARTX employees first thought, ABC reported. were doing

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