There is ample evidence of Soviet industrial espionage in the 1960s and 1970s, with the KGB specifically targeting the Anglo-French Concorde program. Networks of informants, typically mid-level ...
The Tupolev Tu-144 was the Soviet Union’s answer to Concorde and the first supersonic passenger aircraft ever to fly. But the project was plagued by political pressure, reliability problems, and ...
But you may not know the Soviets had their own version of the Concorde called the Tupolev-144. It was nicknamed the “Communist Concordski,” and it actually flew before the Anglo-French Concorde. But ...