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One shudders to think of the long term Intel damage the west did to Russia because the doors of the Kremlin were thrown open to Americans. The relationships established back then are probably providing info to the west even today.

Interesting trivia: Russians tried marketing the SU-27 to the British (!) soon after the fall of the wall. British test pilots were even allowed front seat rides. Test flying the SU-27 at Farnborough

What is the state of the Yugoslav aviation industry today? What happened to the factories, test cells etc? Who upkeeps existing SOKO JASTREB and other SOKO airplanes today?

What elements of RU SOF are known to be participating? Alpha Group? Vympel?

Any Soviet/ Russian people like Kelly Johnson? Basically super smart people in defense/space/missile industry? Am aware of Korolev, Glushko, Chelomei, Sergei Kovalev, Sakahrov etc.. any more modern examples?

Any headway in Felon export talks? I remember Algeria showed interest, and Turkey too.

Where can one read up more about the MiG-105 'Boat' space-plane? very little information is available about its flight- testing.

Awesome! I did not know about this. I had read something about the BERIEV S-13, but that was never built. This one was! Incredible.

In the 1960 U2 incident when Gary Powers was shot down flying a Lockheed U2 over Ekaterinburg, was there any attempt by the USSR to reverse engineer/ evaluate/exploit tithe U2 wreckage?