B-2 Bomber: Engineer of Indian origin, who created an American B-2 stealth bomber, now suffering 30 years in jail

Noshir Govadia was born on 11 April 1944 in a Parsi family in Mumbai. He then moved to America to study Aeronautical Engineering at the age of 19 and took American citizenship in the year 1969. Just a year after taking American citizenship, he joined the American Stealth B-2 bomber manufacturer Northrop (now Northrop Gramman).

Graduation in engineering from IISc

Noshir Govadia’s early studies took place in Mumbai (Bombay). He then earned a graduation degree in Mechanical Engineering from IISC Bengaluru. He then moved to America in 1963 and acquired specialty in aerospace and propulsion.

In the Vietnam and Yom Kippur War, the US suffered losses of its hundreds of fighter aircrafts. After which work was started on an aircraft that did not get caught by the radar. For which a secret project called Blueberry Milkshake was started. Noshir Govadia was also involved in this project. He worked for about two decades. He designed the propulsion system of B-2. Which included a special kind of exhaust system of the bomber.

The company had to leave due to illness

According to reports, Noshir Govadia could not celebrate the success of the project on which he worked on for two decades. He came to know about a rare blood disorder. After which he had to leave the company in 1986. After which he started a defense consulting firm in New Mexico. He did this work till 1997, until his security approval was canceled after a contract dispute with Darpa.

In 2003, Govadia started a secret partnership with China. Using surnames like “Catch -e -Monkey”, he made six trips to cities like Chengdu and Shengen. His job was to help China to make a stealth cruise missile and design it. According to the BBC, they were paid at least $ 110,000 instead. After this, in 2004, China helped in conducting a nozzle test and gave detail analysis on the way American missile detection is avoided.

30 years in jail cutting

In 2010, the US agency FBI started an investigation against him and then in 2011 he was sentenced to 30 years for engineering technology data to countries like China, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He is currently lodged in the US Supermax Jail (ADX Florence), and his release is scheduled in 2033.

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