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The Soviets copied the B-29 and ... what else? The DC-3 was made under license so hardly counts as copying. Many of their aircraft had similar configurations
by dingaling 10y ago
The Soviets copied the B-29 and ... what else? The DC-3 was made under license so hardly counts as copying.
Many of their aircraft had similar configurations to Western equivalents but different design aspects. Just like 707 and DC-8 in the West.
On the other hand China literally copied Soviet types after the Sino-Soviet split. Tu-26, MiG-21, An-24, An-12 were all reversed engineered without tooling.
- pdelbarba 10y agoTo name a few notable ones beyond the B-29: Tu-144, Tu-160, Buran and Yak-38 Of course, we don't know for sure what happened with these. It's unlikely they were cloned the same way the B-29 was (rivet for rivet) but they were very likely products of the espionage environment at the time.