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So what happened to USSR MIC talent pool? We poached them too?
by selimthegrim 3y ago
So what happened to USSR MIC talent pool? We poached them too?
- nostrademons 3y agoA lot of them, yes - I work with a number of ethnically Russian engineers who probably would've gone into military hardware had they not emigrated to the U.S. In a company founded by someone whose parents were mathematicians who fled the then-moribund Soviet Union, no less. Bunch of my favorite computer games are written by programmers from former Soviet-bloc countries who now can make a lot more money writing projectile physics for computer games than guidance systems for actual projectiles.
- skhr0680 3y agoDefinitely not. It’s a total coincidence that the F-35 VTOL system is very similar to the innovative Soviet one used on the Yak-141 …
- selimthegrim 3y agoI think that happened before or around 1991 so is less relevant to the present discussion