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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overscan (PaulMM)" data-source="post: 24900" data-attributes="member: 1">Absolutely yes. The USSR was working with captured German axial jet engines and some pioneers like Lyulka were persevering with indigenous axial developments which eventually would bear fruit. In the late 1940s however centrifugal jet engines were a better solution given the state of metallurgy and compressor aerodynamics of the time, something even more relevant to the USSR than the UK. The acquisition of state of the art British centrifugal turbojets gave the Russians access to a good proven design and materials technologies. It wasn't until 1953 that the first indigenous Russian design, the AM-5/RD-9, was available. The Nene and Derwent plugged the gap and provided valuable experience. Would the MiG-15 have been as successful in Korea with a pair of copied German axial engines? I don't think so.</blockquote>

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