China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp
About the company
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC)
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp (CASC) is a state owned Chinese company which primarily focusses on space technologies. It also manufactures missiles, drones and other military equipment.
Via Aerospace Long-March International Trade Co (ALIT), a company which it controls, it also manages the import and export on arms, including the sale of CASC manufactured armed drones.
A dozen CH-3 armed drones, dubbed killer drones, have reportedly been sold to the Burmese military. At a cost of around $4m each, the drones would have cost around $48m, without running costs.
Contact
Wu Yansheng
Executive Director and President
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp
16 Fucheng Road
Haidian District
Beijing 100048
Peoples Republic of China
Email: jianshihui@spacechina.com
(Notification letter sent 30th October 2018)
Sources:
Is Myanmar Using Armed Chinese Drones For Counterinsurgency? The Diplomat, 9th June 2016
https://thediplomat.com/2016/06/is-myanmar-using-armed-chinese-drones-for-counterinsurgency/
Meet China’s Killer Drones, Foreign Policy, 14th January 2016
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/01/14/meet-chinas-killer-drones/
Chinese drones may soon swarm the market — and that could be very bad for the US Business Insider 16th November 2017
http://uk.businessinsider.com/chinese-drones-swarm-market-2017-11?r=US&IR=T
China’s armed CH-3 drone spotted in Myanmar Defence Blog 31st May 2016
http://defence-blog.com/news/chinas-armed-ch-3-drone-spotted-in-myanmar.html
Added to the Dirty List 11 December 2018
The Dirty List
The Dirty List names international companies doing business with the military in Burma. The list also includes international companies involved in projects where there are human rights violations or environmental destruction.
In September 2018, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which has been investigating human rights violations in the country, stated:
“The actions of the Tatmadaw (Burmese military) in Kachin, Rakhine and Shan States, in particular in the context of the ‘clearance operations’ in northern Rakhine State in 2016 and 2017, have so seriously violated international law that any engagement in any form with the Tatmadaw, its current leadership, and its businesses, is indefensible.”