Lets see some foreign aircraft and technogoies designs that the USSR made nearly exact copies of: DC3/C47, B29, Rolls-Royce Nene jet engine, the whole BT and T34-T55 tank series used a suspension system that eas developed by J.Walter Christie in the USA, They copied V2s - the scud is little more than a modified V2 with integrated fuel tanks and detachable warhead, as the scuds designer freely admited.
What a load of crap...
DC3/C47 was licenced - modified to take Russian built engines by the design bureau Lisunov, Russian designation Li-2, 2800+ built;
B29 was copied albeit with no licence - Allied US refused to supply this advanced bomber obviously having in mind "after the war" situation. Few B29s landed in Russian Far East after raids on Japan. SU was not at war with Japan at the time - they were "interned"

Hence the birth of T-4 Bull. Loads built and supplied mainly to China (400+);
Rolls-Royce engines? Hmmm... Pass... I guess RR simply sold it to the Soviet Union? We were allied after all...
Christie suspension? Hmmm.. Let me think - German guy Diesel patented the engine (although his engine was supposed to work on coal powder and water mix, not heavy fuel), some unknown Chineese monk invented gunpowder, some Scandinavian bloke did some work on explosives... Hey - that T34 was just plain stolen from all those people. No wonder it's was arguably the best tank of the war - the whole world worked hard designing it...
The whole world is also shamelessly using the internal combustion engine patented by Daimler and Benz, all rearwheel drive vehicles use Cardan(sp?) trasmission etc...
Oh, btw you do know that the master race pinched T-V "Panther" "idea" from those stupid, totally unable to do anything by themselves Russkies, don't you? They still couldn't reproduce a miracle of Russian engine design, 500 hp diesel V2. Funny that - only Russian tanks sported those powerful, less prone to fire diesels, who did the bastards pinched those from?
And some German chap named von Braun or such like was in charge of the US space program... Didn't he... Err... Designed V2?
And no, Scud missiles (SS1 Western or NR11 Soviet designation) did not have detachable warheads. That was Mr von Braun's design "feature".
Calm down my a**

Learn history not from the History Channel and stop trying to find German ideas as the only source for progress

thanks, PbICb
[This message has been edited by -lynx- (edited 12-19-2000).]