You forgot one very important point. The Russian's could email our news list
for help when something went wrong !
Pat
"...that's not my car leaking oil, it's Greg's...."
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>Just finished watching Wings on the Discovery Channel. They were describing
>the Soviet supersonic transport program and the British/French Concorde. The
>Tuploev TU-144, the Soviet's SST, had engines that were not fuel efficient
>(as SSTs go, anyway). So the Soviets contacted Lucas Electronics for a fuel
>management system! When the British government heard about this, they told
>the Soviets, NO WAY! Because the Brit's felt that the Soviets would use the
>technology for military purposes. The Brit's knew that the TU-22 Blinder, a
>Soviet supersonic bomber, used the same engines as the TU-144 passenger
>aircraft.
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>Now, just think, if the cold war had not ended, and things heated up, WE
>could have averted WW3. How, you ask? Well, when the Ruskies would email
>the problem they were having with the ENTIRE TU-22 fleet, we could have
>warned our government. They would, hopefully, launch a preventive strike.
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>Either that, or the Lucas Electronics would have p*ssed the Ruskies off, and
>they would have just launched their ICBMs instead.
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