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just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoNah, 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
And the Buran system was more impressive than the shuttle, capable of completely automated flight!
Buelldozer@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Oh? Which test flight demonstrated that?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 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.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 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.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
So they say but since it never even went into space it’s a bold claim.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s just like their foxbat claims…turned out it was a flying brick.
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 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?
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.