Comments by "Thetequilashooter1" (@Thetequilashooter1) on "Was this the most advanced Russian jet? - Yak 141" video.

@_-_Quark_Pistols Because Russia made improvements to the design that Lockheed already had from the Corsair. What’s not logical is saying that the Yak-141 is the F-35’s father when Lockheed developed the technology first. Read below from CodeOne. A great deal of misinformation has appeared on the Internet regarding the relationship of the Soviet Yak-41 (later Yak-141), NATO reporting name Freestyle, to the X-35 and the rest of the JSF program. The Pratt & Whitney 3BSD nozzle design predates the Russian work. In fact the 3BSD was tested with a real engine almost twenty years before the first flight of the Yak.
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@_-_Quark_Pistols No they didn’t. They sold some performance data and some other certain information but not all of it. Russia’s not that stupid to sell all its classified information on the aircraft to its arch rival. By the time Lockheed got the information and got to view the prototype the F-35B’s design was already in its final stages.
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@OOpSjm Lockheed didn’t buy the entire program. Do you think Russia is really that stupid to sell all the classified information on it for a few hundred million dollars?
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@soulbrothers7789 Not all the documents. Stop lying. From CodeOne: Yakovlev was looking for money to keep its VTOL program alive, not having received any orders for a production version of the Yak-141. Lockheed provided a small amount of funding in return for obtaining performance data and limited design data on the Yak-141. US government personnel were allowed to examine the aircraft. However, the 3BSN design was already in place on the X-35 before these visits.
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@peterkorek-mv6rs Lockheed already had the main design from the Corsair 200 that it created 20 years earlier. Lockheed did buy some information and data, though.
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