Mark Conley
Active member
Todays weird forum topic is countries that have copied other countries military hardware, either by allowance from the country that designed it, or by other means.
I have noticed in certain topics that this subject keeps popping up. So heres a topic area that allows you to vent your spleen on the subject, with certain restrictions.
1. Back up your assertions with pictures or links that are available to the members so that we can properly ascertain its correctness.
2. If you are going to discuss the topic, you will do it with dignity. No flamming. Post the assertion only once, and let it stand. What you post the first time has got to stand up by itself.
3. This topic is historical as well. Can range across the whole spectrum...from the colonists in the US that borrowed the design of the tomahawk from the indians, to what ever. It just has to be verifiable.
MY topic starter: The B-29 and the TU-4 Bomber from Soviet Russia.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-4.htm
as the story went, three B-29s that were bombing Japan had to divert and land in siberia, where because of the neutrality of the Soviets to the Japanese, the Soviets had to intern the bombers and the crews. The Bombers somehow wound up in Moscow, were reverse engineered, and turned up in the Soviet inventory as TU-4s.
Although the russian versions did not have the same engines as the american versions (which during that time, were prone to fires) its obviously a very complete copy of the B-29 from the photos.
I have noticed in certain topics that this subject keeps popping up. So heres a topic area that allows you to vent your spleen on the subject, with certain restrictions.
1. Back up your assertions with pictures or links that are available to the members so that we can properly ascertain its correctness.
2. If you are going to discuss the topic, you will do it with dignity. No flamming. Post the assertion only once, and let it stand. What you post the first time has got to stand up by itself.
3. This topic is historical as well. Can range across the whole spectrum...from the colonists in the US that borrowed the design of the tomahawk from the indians, to what ever. It just has to be verifiable.
MY topic starter: The B-29 and the TU-4 Bomber from Soviet Russia.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-4.htm
as the story went, three B-29s that were bombing Japan had to divert and land in siberia, where because of the neutrality of the Soviets to the Japanese, the Soviets had to intern the bombers and the crews. The Bombers somehow wound up in Moscow, were reverse engineered, and turned up in the Soviet inventory as TU-4s.
Although the russian versions did not have the same engines as the american versions (which during that time, were prone to fires) its obviously a very complete copy of the B-29 from the photos.
