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Iranian Company Interested in Homemade Cruise Missile Project
After claiming to have built a cruise missile in his garage for less than $5,000, a New Zealand man received offers from an Iranian company interested in his technology, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday (see GSN, June 4). Bruce Simpson, who has described his missile project on a Web site, received “serious inquiries” from the unnamed Iranian company “about investing in the development of the X-jet technology.” His latest comments were posted on another Web site. “I have since had e-mails from Pakistan, Lebanon, China and other countries, all of which sought to obtain details of the X-jet project and some of which have involved seemingly genuine offers of not insignificant payment for such information,” he wrote. Simpson said he contacted the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, who told him it was “certainly not sensible” to export his missile or the technology. He signed an agreement with a U.S. firm, but that deal was abandoned after New Zealand tax authorities declared him bankrupt (Agence France-Presse/Australian Broadcasting Corporation Online, Dec. 6).
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