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Originally Posted by pavulon
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After WWII when the Soviets took all the V2s and 262s with BMW 003 and Junkers 004 engines and everything else, over 6000 engineers and scientists, some paid, some forced labor, the "team" developed the Bear turboprops from those 003 and 004 designs
Aside from that, Soviets bought 55 Rolls Royce Nene engines used in the Mig 15s
Technical assistance from the West was ongoing from 1917 on, Reverse engineered Caterpillars were converted to metric, DC3 complete factory sold to the Soviets(the LI-2)Ford Model A was the GAZ exact replica- and these days the RD-180 rocket engines are sold to the US