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Well, the point is that it's a common belief the thing A was stolen, not developed independently, and in practice for a state of the art technical achievement y
by avmich 13y ago
Well, the point is that it's a common belief the thing A was stolen, not developed independently, and in practice for a state of the art technical achievement you usually already have to be pretty damn good just to be able to copy verbatim, not to mention to have substantial advantages.
I won't say Concord was copied from Tu-144. Similarly, I wouldn't say soviet electronics was just a rip-off; there were enough original works even outside of the relatively well known BESM-6 project. Even to copy chips in 1980-s it takes you to have the necessary technology for reverse engineering - something I doubt any country ever had on that scale, at least at the time.
- ceejayoz 13y agoWikipedia (unfortunately, sourcing a print book so I can't vouch for its having been quoted fairly) indicates Soviet agents were definitely stealing Concorde plans during the Tu-144's development.
- avmich 13y agoI'm, of course, interested in arguments with some base to them. Wikipedia marks the section as "disputed" and mentions that stolen (if) were the preliminary designs. Again, you have to know a lot to have use of plans like that - especially when the design is a moving target.
- willvarfar 13y agoThe spies were caught. At the time, there was a lot of public outcry in the west. Pretty much any documentary on the tu144 will explain all this in great detail. YouTube it!