A Chinese national was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison on July 16 for attempting to illegally export maritime raiding craft and multi-fuel engines to China.
Ge Songtao, 51, of Nanjing, China, had pleaded guilty last year to a scheme to order seven rubber raiding boats that use engines that could operate using gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel. The U.S. military uses the special engines to launch the craft from submerged submarines or from aircraft into the ocean. China makes no comparable engine.
