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Why would it be covered under American export restrictions?
A Vulcan being thrown about the sky is quite an impressive sight, but what I really remember was the noise....
Many years later I was sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow waiting for a flight to Edinburgh and pretty much the whole room started shaking and a loud rumbling could be heard. Someone commented it was Concorde taking off... :-)
> Many years later I was sitting in the BA lounge at Heathrow waiting for a flight to Edinburgh and pretty much the whole room started shaking and a loud rumbling could be heard. Someone commented it was Concorde taking off... :-)
Unfortunately there was a v2 revision/refresh of the Concorde that implemented many small improvements, including reduced noise, but it never got off the drawing board due to poor sales of the original model, which itself was in part due to the Concorde world wide tour to prop up sales, which used an even louder pre-production model and left a bad impression.
I have no idea what the aircrew were doing, apart from having some fun, possibly waiting to land at Lossiemouth or Kinloss...
And so used it as a shorthand. Mea culpa.
But I understand that the UK, France, and EU as a whole do regulate arms exports to some degree (at the very least, with sanctions).
Each country has its own rules, but AFAIK they're all on a case per case basis. Which adds complexity in multi-national programmes, like the Eurofighter, which the UK wants to sell to whatever regime regardless of war crimes, but Germany opposes certain sales.
As far as I'm aware of UK laws there is nothing preventing the export this engine.
Dual Use List / Annex I, CATEGORY 9 – AEROSPACE AND PROPULSION
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Never said I didn't do the combing.
If you haven't read many of these types of regulations before, a general category that matches means very little.
So is there some reason why you believe there is one?
Consequently, it's likely other clauses otherwise targeted to military-only powerplants might apply to the Olympus 593, despite being a civil certified engine, simply by virtue of also being supersonic.
The "why" is because they can.
Congrats to the lucky winner!
You actually can sell a tank with a working cannon (to a civilian in the US, foreign national or not) if you have at least a Type 09 license to deal in destructive devices and the buyer has a destructive device permit. To export it would be a lot harder (and getting the aforementioned permits is no joke either).
Types of FFL:
Type 01 – Firearm Dealer/Gunsmith
Type 02 – Pawnbroker
Type 03 – Collector
Type 06 – Manufacture of Ammunition
Type 07 – Manufacturer of Firearms
Type 08 – Importer of Firearms
Type 09 – Dealer of “Destructive Devices”
Type 10 – Manufacturer of “Destructive Devices”
Type 11 – Importer of “Destructive Devices”
You don't actually need either the FFL or the permit if you just decommission the main gun, which is how most tank and artillery collectors get theirs. DD permits are rarely issued for explosives without a good reason (like construction or mining) so even if you get the permit for the gun, you'll struggle to get one for the shells.
Fissile materials, ofc.
But the US government took the approach that "secret is better than banned" with the bomb, and just never stated any of the details (as they would have been required to, in order to prohibit them).
MAD trade secrets, I guess.