Post by erwin on Sept 19, 2023 19:08:31 GMT
Lend-Lease vehicles for the USSR during World War II, and some "accidental" technological aid soon after the war.
How virtue-signalling times have changed... British/Canadian Valentine Mk II tanks for the USSR:
It is stated that a whopping 200.000 US Studebaker trucks were shipped to the USSR for lend-lease:
Here are more numbers on Tanks, Aircraft and equipment shipped and delivered in this project:
www.wio.ru/tank/ll.htm
After the war the US Air Force was so nice to land their latest B-29 heavy bomber aircraft in the USSR, after which it was reverse-engineered (unlicensed) into the practically identical Tupolev Tu-4.
The British could not be left behind and send 40 Rolls-Royce "Nene" jet-engines for evaluation to the USSR. From this example the soviets then made their own version: the RD-45 and VK-1 jet engines. It powered their MiG-15 jet, which was about the most impressive red technology in the subsequent Korean War 1950-53.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimov_VK-1
How virtue-signalling times have changed... British/Canadian Valentine Mk II tanks for the USSR:
It is stated that a whopping 200.000 US Studebaker trucks were shipped to the USSR for lend-lease:
Here are more numbers on Tanks, Aircraft and equipment shipped and delivered in this project:
www.wio.ru/tank/ll.htm
After the war the US Air Force was so nice to land their latest B-29 heavy bomber aircraft in the USSR, after which it was reverse-engineered (unlicensed) into the practically identical Tupolev Tu-4.
The British could not be left behind and send 40 Rolls-Royce "Nene" jet-engines for evaluation to the USSR. From this example the soviets then made their own version: the RD-45 and VK-1 jet engines. It powered their MiG-15 jet, which was about the most impressive red technology in the subsequent Korean War 1950-53.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klimov_VK-1