European Tribune - Comments - Special planes : the Airbus 400 military airlifter (A400M).

Special planes : the Airbus 400 military airlifter (A400M). | 6 comments (6 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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An entertaining reverse on the traditional Cold War game of the Soviets enthusiastically borrowing and copying Western technology.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sat Apr 1st, 2006 at 04:42:26 PM EST

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Well, when it came to military technology, there was alot of borrowing and copying both ways.

by Trond Ove on Sat Apr 1st, 2006 at 06:22:44 PM EST
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Re: Special planes : the Airbus 400 (none / 0)

Do you know of an example?

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sat Apr 1st, 2006 at 06:31:54 PM EST
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I can't recall a single Cold War example at the moment, nor a clearly military one afterwards, but Soviet/Russian/Ukrainian rocket technology has been bought and adapted by US firms, and now there is European cooperation too.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 04:58:42 AM EST
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Indeed, from a Russian website :3/10/2003:

In mid-2001 Russia's "Rosaviakosmos"
state space and aviation agency signed an agreement with Europe's EADS to
co-operate on the A400M development. This agreement was broadly criticized in
Russia and Ukraine and the Medium Transport Aircraft consortium (STS) officially
declined to help EADS build the A400M. The STS actively protested repeated attempts
by EADS to enlist help for the A400M program of various aviation companies in Russia
and Ukraine involved in the An-70 development.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Sun Apr 2nd, 2006 at 06:49:21 AM EST
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