there’s so many weird and unusual designs from the Soviet era.
If you lack resources and/or money - you have to think creatively. The opposite case makes me think of the US military. Beyond the endless corruption - they have astronomical resources and insane amounts of money so they don’t think very much.
If you lack resources and/or money - you have to think creatively. The opposite case makes me think of the US military. Beyond the endless corruption - they have astronomical resources and insane amounts of money so they don’t think very much.
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Here’s an informative 11 minute Youtube vid - The Strangest Aircraft Ever Built: The Soviet Union’s VVA-14.
This is also why China was able to develop LLMs that blow their Western counterparts out of the water using a fraction of the budget.
You might want to see my edit.