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Old 09-22-2006, 14:56 PM   #11 (permalink)
glyn
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[quote=Sandman;269778]Has anyone visited or worked on a US warship, and then seen a Russian warship of the same catagory? I have heard the Russian ships have poor welding, rough workmanship.


There has been a great deal of propaganda by the west claiming that Soviet (now read Russian) equipments are inferior in concept, design and manufacture.
It is true that they don't add frippery or creature comfort as a close look of the wartime T-34 tank will show, but in nearly every case what 'they' had was closely comparable to what we had - except their numbers were greater than ours. In several fields they have on occasion led the world, so much credit must be due to them, in all fairness.
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