True, but they would be able to take advantage of technological developments which had occurred in the meantime. Like better material sciences.
Perhaps any flights to third world/ nonaligned countries cannot be on jet airlinersJet engines quickly got used for passengerliners. So it would be easy for any country to get hold of one.
Perhaps any flights to third world/ nonaligned countries cannot be on jet airliners
True, how much that would or would not help with the prototypes I can't say. The question that comes to me is how hard is it to grasp all the math and physics that goes into making a jet engine? Not the basics but the nitty-gritty details that are sometimes hard to foresee. I admit I have no idea myself. Sometimes it is the minor adjustments you have to make to have it work that can kick you in the head.
Sort of. They are jumping ahead with the wetware and software parts. Eg an internet based economy. The actual hardware, the electronics is imported. Nothing wrong with that. It is pretty awesome. But it was 2nd, 3rd and 4th rate nations have always done. Buy fancy tech from those who can actually build it. You don't think a nation like Australia ever built everything it needed to give itself a 1st world lifestyle?I remember when cell phones first started to take off and they had a story on tv about places in Africa putting up cell towers and not running wire phone systems. People here could not understand that you did not have to have a wired system first. If you can afford the tech, people, money, time invested, means you can jump ahead.
It's an engineering problem, not a science one.
True, how much that would or would not help with the prototypes I can't say. The question that comes to me is how hard is it to grasp all the math and physics that goes into making a jet engine? Not the basics but the nitty-gritty details that are sometimes hard to foresee. I admit I have no idea myself. Sometimes it is the minor adjustments you have to make to have it work that can kick you in the head.
The biggest issue in case of nuclear programmes is building the industrial infrastructure. A lot of the stuff needed for weapons has no real use in non military applications.Not very hard, actually.
Once you see a jet, the basic operating principle is amazingly simple.
Certainly some finer points will be missed initially, such as optimal blade angle, ratio of compressor fan radii, etc.
But there's no new math disciplines needed to understand vs piston engine design.
And even if theres trade bans on jets, the knowledge still leaks out. Hell, to be frank, there's probably enough publicly available information to construct your own hydrogen bomb if materials are no obstacle and you have a sufficient understanding of the math.
Sure it'll be inefficient, but fuck at that point, who really cares?
Would the 4 engined bombers be used by smaller nations as transports and for tactical bombing?Pe-2, and probably the Tiger Cat, actually.
If they're building their own, they're probably going to need two of them.