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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nah, it goes WAY back to pre-WW2. Russia basically made copying everyone else’s technology a major economic driver for them for decades, and it was all based around trying to sucker poorer countries into buying their awful products.

  Cameras, radios, cars, weapons. Hell they even stole NASA Space Shuttle designs and tech to build their own, which just ended up in a junkyard.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And the Buran system was more impressive than the shuttle, capable of completely automated flight!

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    • Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh? Which test flight demonstrated that?

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      • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t think it was ever confirmed. They only flew the thing once, which was confirmed. Anything else claiming superior tech I’d call USSR propaganda.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m not sure whether the orbital flight counts as test or operational, but that one. The prior test flights only had automated landings.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So they say but since it never even went into space it’s a bold claim.

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      • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s just like their foxbat claims…turned out it was a flying brick.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course everything’s made by China anyway including all the high-end stuff. The exception being computer chips.

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