• @just_another_person
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    413 months ago

    It will work just like every other Russian knock-off thing that gets made. Very shittily, and then end up in the bin.

    Aren’t they still also trying to make their own Steam? 🤣

    • @ChicoSuave
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      203 months ago

      It will end up like every other Russian knock-off: made by the Chinese when Russia eventually gives up

      • @just_another_person
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        103 months ago

        Nah, it goes WAY back to pre-WW2. Russia basically made copying everyone else’s technology a major economic driver for them for decades, and it was all based around trying to sucker poorer countries into buying their awful products.

        Cameras, radios, cars, weapons. Hell they even stole NASA Space Shuttle designs and tech to build their own, which just ended up in a junkyard.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          And the Buran system was more impressive than the shuttle, capable of completely automated flight!

            • @just_another_person
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              33 months ago

              I don’t think it was ever confirmed. They only flew the thing once, which was confirmed. Anything else claiming superior tech I’d call USSR propaganda.

            • @[email protected]
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              13 months ago

              I’m not sure whether the orbital flight counts as test or operational, but that one. The prior test flights only had automated landings.

          • Echo Dot
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            13 months ago

            So they say but since it never even went into space it’s a bold claim.

            • @[email protected]
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              33 months ago

              I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

              • Echo Dot
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                13 months ago

                Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.

                  • Echo Dot
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                    23 months ago

                    By landing?

                    Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.

            • @SupraMario
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              3 months ago

              It’s just like their foxbat claims…turned out it was a flying brick.

              Edit: apparently I pissed off some tankies lol

              It’s well known that the foxbat was heavily exaggerated in its capabilities. It’s how we ended up with the f15 and it’s insane capabilities. Just like now russia fighting in Ukraine, paper tiger.

      • Echo Dot
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        23 months ago

        Of course everything’s made by China anyway including all the high-end stuff. The exception being computer chips.