India, June 24 -- As the United States' B-2 stealth bombers gain limelight following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, Indian-American Noshir S Gowadia's story from 2010 has also resurfaced.

Gowadia, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer, was found guilty of selling sensitive and classified defence information to China in 2010 by a US federal jury. Follow Iran Israel war live updates

The former Northrop Grumman engineer, who helped design the B-2 stealth bomber, was also convicted of illegally communicating classified information three other times and unlawfully exporting technical information on those occasions, and filing false tax returns between 2001 and 2002.

"Gowadia provided some of our country's most sensitive weapon...