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Old 2nd Jan 2018, 19:47
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Originally Posted by roving
In the late 1940's the USSR asked if Rolls Royce would sell them a jet engine. Somewhat to the USSR's surprise it did. The Russians quickly cloned it and installed in MiG-15s used in the Korean War.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-15
This has been done on here before. The Labour government didn't so much sell, as gift the engines to Russia. Attlee and Cripps should have been hanged for high treason. A Russian delegation also toured the RR factory manufacturing the engines in soft soled shoes, picking up the alloys used for the engines manufacture. It is hard to believe we were so naive
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