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This would maybe work between equals, but not when US has everything to lose and Russia has everything to gain.
by flyinglizard 6y ago
This would maybe work between equals, but not when US has everything to lose and Russia has everything to gain.
- ggm 6y agoit works all the time. If you want to maintain superiority you didn't want peace in the first place.
- metabagel 6y ago“it works all the time” Citation needed
- flohofwoe 6y agoThe F-35B gained a lot from the Yak-141 though, time to give something back ;)
- thrwway34 6y agoThat's just an urban legend though.
- flohofwoe 6y agoFrom what I've read, Lockheed Martin entered a partnership with Yakovlev and essentially funded the last few prototypes after state funding had dried up because of the Soviet Union collapse. Even if they didn't use the exact same engine configuration than the Yak-141 (it's pretty damn close though) I bet those 400 million dollars were well spent to get access to research the Russians had already done in the decade before (even if it just means not repeating the same errors).
- thrwway34 6y agoF-35 uses totally different configuration and 400 million were for further Yak-141 development which Russians botched anyway.