I like this image

I used to have a model toy of this when I was a kid. I guess I was 8 or so. My grandma gave it to me.

It does look like it

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do you mind if i save it on my computer?

Yeah but America's orbiter was actually finished. Also, while I admit the use of the active core stage design that the Buran would have used is better than the overcomplicated fuel system that the american STS used, I would like to point out that the orbiter design of the Buran was literally just a mindless ripoff of the American STS orbiter. I'm not even joking, the Soviets had no idea why America had designed the orbiter like this, they just cloned it.

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The 747 is the US.
Guess who the shuttle is

>(((Israel)))

Me too

Did Russia import any Nazi scientists to give their technology industry a jumpstart, or was that just America?

Senpai, OP's pic is an Antonov carrying a Buran orbiter.
These however:
Are the Boeing 747 carrying the STS orbiter.
Very different desu.

I wonder how many scientists were compromised for the Soviets to get the plans, all the plans from NASA for them to clone the orbiter, along with the rockets to carry it into space

>Here is his downie brother

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It'll be a real shame if the 225 actually did get destroyed. The aircraft is a real testament to the fact that amazing vehicles can be created even by weird and shitty entities like the Soviet Union. Gives me hope for the future of this species. It's a damn shame the last Buran space shuttles got destroyed by a ceiling collapse as well. Now there's only like one of them left in a museum.

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>be the soviet union
>see american space shuttle
>(dont know it will explode a couple times yet)
>want it too
>tell soviet agents to steal plans
>try to design a copy
>those big vectoring main engines, we cant do that with our backwards tech
>we cant do those centre of mass calculations and thrust calculations to offset
>lets just make it a bit smaller and strap it on a fucking GIANT booster
>yeah thatll work
>the soviet union falls
>fuck what do we do
>lets put it in a hangar in fuckistan and wait for the roof to collapse on it
>yeah

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Is that how you make drones?

Russia got the first picks... like the cream of the crop and then the US took the rest.

Magnus Von Braun (Wernher's brother) goes over it in his unpublished notes / memoirs

both country's space industries traded / stole tech back and forth up until the fake moon landing

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Probably alot, but then the orbiter's design and manufacture was split among pretty much every contractor. So any one of them could have had a single compromise that let so much leakage happened.
Although, the rocket engines would have been very different, the Soviets would have mounted the Buran on a fully orbit capable rocket, that was practically ready and the orbiter was simply the glider for returning components to Earth.
The American STS used a combination of SRBs and a complicated fuel system that fed into the vehicle from the external fuel tank. That meant that there were valves that led to the OMS engine fuel, right where the heat shield was. That meant that the American OMS engines were very complicated sophisticated powerful reusable engines that could do complex gimbaling and reconfiguring maneuvers, to get into different flight modes, it was very impressive if maybe flawed because it caused alot of problems. I don't believe the Buran had very powerful OMS engines but they put in a section for them anyways because "the Americans were doing it"

they got some but they discarded them soon and go full native

The knowledge and materials to do this doesnt exist anymore, people will soon question if this was actually possible at one point

So has AN-225 been confirmed for being destroyed?
If so are there any pics?

Communist Russia was superior to the west in every espect possible