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But they were pretty good at engineering things like jets, helicopters, missiles, etc. I think the consume products were bad because they lacked market feedback
by jeffreyrogers 7y ago
But they were pretty good at engineering things like jets, helicopters, missiles, etc. I think the consume products were bad because they lacked market feedback and had trouble with supply chains, while the military products were good, arguably better than US equivalents in some cases, because of the more top-down, spec-driven nature of that work.
- elteto 7y agoYes, they were. Their military products actually competed in a "free market": they had strong competition from the US, NATO countries, China, etc. Ironically, this free market competition is what made Soviet weapons as good as they were :) I wonder if they ever thought about it in this way.