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Re:A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub by protomyth on Monday August 09, 2010 @12:07PM (#1588389)
They have some truly bad failures where simple and cheap were not more reliable. Take a look at that torpedo test that went bad.
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Re:A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub by jacquesm on Monday August 09, 2010 @12:13PM (#1588413)
Take a look at the challenger...

Accidents of enormous magnitude have happened because of cheapness, the Russians did not have a monopoly on that.

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Re:A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub by protomyth on Monday August 09, 2010 @03:42PM (#1589109)
If we are going beyond military then the US has nothing to compare against Lake Karachay and Chernobyl in the doing things cheap and taking a big hit department.
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Re:A Classic of Soviet Engineering - The Typhoon-class sub by jacquesm on Monday August 09, 2010 @06:01PM (#1589579)
Space shuttle always was a military project.
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