USA built A-12 using Soviet titanium. LJL at Hoodwinked ruskies.
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Date: August 18th, 2018 11:57 PM Author: Passionate azure gay wizard
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]
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Date: August 20th, 2018 3:30 AM Author: Shimmering jet-lagged spot
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.
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