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Comment on UK small nuclear competition: Rolls Royce in, Bill Gates snubbed

InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Plus of course the UK is going to go with RR over a company that in the past was trying to get close to the CCP and do data sharing/joint programmes.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimov_VK-1

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Bit of a difference between a foreign startup you can’t control getting very close to them and RR, a company they can control and who isn’t reliant on them, doing a project for them.

This really isn’t the gotcha you think it is, sorry.

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- InvertedParallax@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  RR literally gave the soviet union their realistic jet engine program because they wanted a few bucks.
  
  The damage to the west was incalculable.
  
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  - bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    RR didn’t, the UK govt did.
    
    From your link
    
    However, in 1946, before the Cold War had really begun, the new British Labour government under the prime minister, Clement Attlee, keen to improve diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, authorised Rolls-Royce to export 40 Rolls-Royce Nene centrifugal flow turbojet engines. In 1958 it was discovered during a visit to Beijing by Whitney Straight, then deputy chairman of Rolls-Royce, that this engine had been copied without license
    
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