– It leans towards the Edge is placed under our control, says Jan-Erik Lövgren, Deputy Director General of the ISP to New technology.
The Agency has on previous occasions assessed that the Edge is neither war materials or a PDA product – but since last fall studying it again what the program can do.
The review started after SVT’s disclosure that the program might have military equipment connections, and that it was about to licensed to China via KTH – despite the EU’s arms embargo on China.
After talks with ISP upholstered However KTH its aviation research cooperation with China.
Edge measures how air flows flowing around the object and can be expanded with modules that are intended for different uses.
Via one of the additions, a load precipitation module, one can study how a missile can be safely sent off from an aircraft.
Another aims to investigate how a missile can reenter the atmosphere after its space orbit.
ISP’s Technical-Scientific Council discussed the use of the Edge as late as last week. According to Jan-Erik Lövgren has also received new, supplementary documents from FOI but it is possible that the information is not sufficient to ISP should be able to make decisions, he states. Therefore, continues the preparation.
– What we are watching is “tomorrow’s Edge” and developments of the program. It is especially three or four modules that we look at, he said.
About Edge classified as military equipment – or as a product dual use – gets FOI had to seek authorization from the ISP to give the authorities or research institutes in other countries, licenses to use the program.
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