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"Bob (not my real pseudonym)" wrote in message
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> To be fair, there are a few videos out there of Harriers behaving badly.
But the West stuck with it until the bugs were ironed out.
The Russkies have a long, fine history of aping Western technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOc1VcsYXjc
Regarding the F-111: When I was in the USAF, on Guam, I heard a lieutenant
colonel say, "The only good thing about the F-111 is that the Soviets copied
it."
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