• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    23 days 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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      23 days ago

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

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        23 days ago

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

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          23 days 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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            22 days 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.

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              22 days ago

              If it didn’t do a reentry, how did it get down from that altitude?

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                22 days ago

                By landing?

                Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.

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                  22 days ago

                  I’m pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.

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          22 days ago

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

          Edit: apparently I pissed off some tankies lol

          It’s well known that the foxbat was heavily exaggerated in its capabilities. It’s how we ended up with the f15 and it’s insane capabilities. Just like now russia fighting in Ukraine, paper tiger.

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          23 days 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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          23 days 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.