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Reverse engineering a UFO would be disassembling and studying it so that we can recreate it or repurpose the technologies in it. Presumably it would have some m
by thatguy0900 3y ago
Reverse engineering a UFO would be disassembling and studying it so that we can recreate it or repurpose the technologies in it. Presumably it would have some manner of exotic engine or power source or perhaps weapons, etc.
- HideousKojima 3y agoFor an example of this from the early Cold War, see the Tupolev Tu-4. The Soviets took the wrecks of three downed US B-29s from WWII and spent huge amounts of money and manpower studying them and developing copies of them since US strategic bomber tech was so far ahead of their own. Supposedly (though I'd need to find a source again) there was a bullet hole in the wing of one of the recovered B-29s that the Soviets faithfully recreated in the Tu-4 thinking it was part of the actual design. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
- cubefox 3y agoInteresting, though the B-29s were IFOs (identified flying objects). And very much not of extra terrestrial origin... There was a similar story: https://fstoppers.com/film/how-soviet-union-snapped-first-picture-far-side-moon-captured-air-force-kodak-325971 https://fstoppers.com/film/how-soviet-union-snapped-first-pi...