That's because you ARE wrong. The Concord's development initiated after the Soviets launched the Tu-144 program. As for the Tu-160, it was a response to the B-1A using the same mainframe. It can be traced back to earlier Tupolev aircraft, like the same 144 or 22 models. The only thing the Russians copied, against their will (large quarrels ensued between the Tupolev bureau and Stalin himself regarding this), was the B-29 in 1945.
But hey, this works both ways. Americans have copied too like thrust-vectoring, VTOL (Yak-36), stealth engineering (Ufimstev) and the F-35 from the Yak-141, to name a few.
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Dont get me wrong its a beautiful aircraft but its a nother russian rip off.
No it's not.
you see it's the americans who based it off the russians, not the other way around.
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Russians ripped off the B-52, and this is a rip off of the Concord
Cool story bro. Actually, that's entirely false. The Tu-95 Bear was not a rip-off of the B-52. It uses turbo-props, not jet engines.
And the TU-160 was not a rip-off of the Concorde or the B-1 Lancer. The Tu-160 is more than twice the size and Mach 3.
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They stole the plans for it.
I'm guessing by the amount of negative votes that you guys dont know much about aircraft :)
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You guys got me all wrong.
That's because you ARE wrong. The Concord's development initiated after the Soviets launched the Tu-144 program. As for the Tu-160, it was a response to the B-1A using the same mainframe. It can be traced back to earlier Tupolev aircraft, like the same 144 or 22 models. The only thing the Russians copied, against their will (large quarrels ensued between the Tupolev bureau and Stalin himself regarding this), was the B-29 in 1945.
But hey, this works both ways. Americans have copied too like thrust-vectoring, VTOL (Yak-36), stealth engineering (Ufimstev) and the F-35 from the Yak-141, to name a few.