Originally posted by ancientmariner
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Developing, producing, maintaining and making meaningful use of complex weapon systems remains the preserve of those nations who have continually invested time, money and people in such systems. New kids on the block can buy in but will rarely have a meaningful capability to sustain, upgrade and develop such systems without the support of those nations who originally developed them.
Also worth noting that much of Russian space technology still owes much to the German scientists captured after WWII. You have to remember that the Soyuz launch vehicle is the contemporary of the Titan and Saturn rockets which also owed much to von Braun and co.
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