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Originally Posted by Gorshkov
do you remember "missile gap" and race to the Moon? That is how this machine works. 
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yea sure, explain why the US Atlas V rockets use Russian Proton Engines? Or why the Russian moonship the Soyuz is still flying as the shuttle is about to bite the dust?
A Ukrainian firm Antonov is about to drop it hat in the the ring for the USAF's new tanker. Politics will dictate that they don't get it but Antonov heavy lift aircraft are just as good if not better than our Lockheed C-5s. In fact the An-124 ships a lot of US and European aircraft and space gear around like the Centaur stage of the aforementioned Atlas V.
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Originally Posted by -GrayOwl-
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Great post there GrayOwl, we used several Norman Polmar publications as source material.