Comments by "TinLeadHammer" (@TinLeadHammer) on "Why Stalin Didn't Want The ME-262 Copied (And What Happened Next)" video.

  1. Do you want to recite the story of a bracket with a hole in it, the purpose of which the Soviets could not figure out but faithfully replicated? It turned out to be a cupholder. But I suppose it is just a tale.
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  2. Click-bait title. Has Stalin personally vetoed two-engine fighter design? You seem to give him too much credit. Two things should be understood: Soviet engineers were not idiots and were no worse than Western ones, but had to work with inferior materials, production, infrastructure, etc; Soviet managers were ofter bonehead idiots, insisting on straight copying of Western designs because of their distrust to their own engineers and because, quoting from another industry, no one was fired for buying (or copying) IBM. The simple truth was that two engine scheme was a forced decision because one engine was not powerful enough. The Nene was powerful, but was larger due to its design, which necessitated moving it into fuselage. The resulting design was simpler, easier to maintain, more agile. It was all-around better, at least for a fighter.
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