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USA built A-12 using Soviet titanium. LJL at Hoodwinked ruskies.

Because the A-12 was well ahead of its time, many new techno...
Tan Sanctuary Filthpig
  08/18/18
Im waiting for are reptiles response
Tan Sanctuary Filthpig
  08/20/18
Compared to what the Soviets stole and bought from the US it...
blathering multi-billionaire stock car
  08/20/18
agreed, though I have read that by feeding them we allowed t...
Razzle-dazzle Hyperventilating Telephone Space
  08/20/18


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Date: August 18th, 2018 11:57 PM
Author: Tan Sanctuary Filthpig

Because the A-12 was well ahead of its time, many new technologies had to be invented specifically for the Oxcart project with some remaining in use in present day. One of the biggest problems that engineers faced at that time was working with titanium.[9]

In his book Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed, Ben Rich stated, "Our supplier, Titanium Metals Corporation, had only limited reserves of the precious alloy, so the CIA conducted a worldwide search and using third parties and dummy companies, managed to unobtrusively purchase the base metal from one of the world's leading exporters – the Soviet Union. The Russians never had an inkling of how they were actually contributing to the creation of the airplane being rushed into construction to spy on their homeland."[10]

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055199&forum_id=2#36641784)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 12:11 AM
Author: Tan Sanctuary Filthpig

Im waiting for are reptiles response

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055199&forum_id=2#36646756)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:30 AM
Author: blathering multi-billionaire stock car

Compared to what the Soviets stole and bought from the US it is small potatoes. Pretty much every technology they stole.

And we were dumb enough to sell them food.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055199&forum_id=2#36647121)



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Date: August 20th, 2018 4:57 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle Hyperventilating Telephone Space

agreed, though I have read that by feeding them we allowed their sclerotic dictatorship to gently slide into mediocrity and a soft implosion as opposed to violent explosion

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4055199&forum_id=2#36647158)