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Let's not get too cocky here. Copying went both ways: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/nasas-newest-cargo-spacecraft-began-life-as-a-soviet-space-plane/

by 0xbear 9y ago

Let's not get too cocky here. Copying went both ways: https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/nasas-newest-cargo-spacecraft-began-life-as-a-soviet-space-plane/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/nasas-newest-cargo-s... And the pork barrel project extraordinaire: http://aviationintel.com/yak-141-freestyle-the-f-35b-was-born-in-moscow/ http://aviationintel.com/yak-141-freestyle-the-f-35b-was-bor... Lockheed entered into a "partnership" with Yakovlev, copied the blueprints, and dissolved the "partnership", while pocketing hundreds of billions in US government largesse. The end result even looks similar.

tim333 9y ago
I didn't know that with the Yak. There's some footage of it flying / crashing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmoMOc1Z_KE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmoMOc1Z_KE
- 0xbear 9y ago
  This is not very well known in the US, although the Russians were sore about it for quite a while. This was back in early 90s when the US was universally perceived as a "friend" by freshly ex-Soviet people for the first time in their lives, and such military cooperation was actually possible. Turns out this somewhat naive trust was misguided.