[Milsurplus] Russian equipment-KGB espionage-etc.

[Bob Camp]

Hi

 From what I have seen their first approach was to directly buy 
technology on the open market. If that didn't work they went in for the 
back door approach. If they couldn't get it that way then they would 
start a program to develop it on their own. It certainly cut down on 
the R&D investment required to keep up with the west.

There was nothing at all wrong with their trained technical people. 
They were more narrow in their training but they went in for more depth 
in the area of study. At least from the 70's on some of them  were 
getting training in the same US schools that our guys went to.

This isn't to say that what they did worked well. It just worked well 
enough for a while ..... you could still get the well trained coal 
fired steam boiler engineers assigned to run a nuclear power plant ....

	Enjoy!

		Bob Camp
		KB8TQ



On May 4, 2004, at 9:18 PM, Hue Miller wrote:

> Remember that the KGB had a whole division tasked with acquiring 
> Western
> technology. The idea was to acquire new technology examples and 
> documents
> and reverse engineer and copy the technology at home.  With the 
> rapidity of
> development of new technology, however, i wonder how much longer the 
> USSR
> could have kept up  this frantic effort, if the economy had not 
> collapsed, and
> the population tired of the game, when they did.
> -Hue Miller
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