Originally posted by Boroda
Funny, isn't it?
At the same time US weapon companies failed to produce rifles for Russian government, failing both in quantity and quality. Would you be so kind to explain it?
Horsepucky. The Nagants made by Remington under contract for the Czar are significantly higher in quality, fit, finish and accuracy than those made in Russia and are highly sought after by collectors. In fact, a large number of those Nagants russia failed to pay for (and hence were not shipped to Russia) are still in service at our National Military Acadamies.. It should also be noted that russia also screwed Nagant in Belgium for his design work on the Mosin Rifle magazine and receiver, and then with your partners in the crime of patent theft the French; whom you also screwed for the machines to make them out of license in the Tula factory.. which the russians promptly copied and sent to Ishevesk.
I own a Remington made model 1891 Nagant, it makes the crude crap churned out of Tula and Ishevesk look like.... crude crap.
Typically, your government (bolshevk, imperial, communist, makes no difference) would contract with american and other foriegn companies for goods and then on reciept fail to pay for them and continue the contract and then send them off to your state factories for copy/reverse engineering.
Sadly, theft and reverse engineering of american designed and patented processes and products is something that's been a common practice world wide for over 100 years. The chinese are currently most adept at it and in a ironic twist, they are now screwing you too for engines and airframe license infringements.
