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Originally Posted by 2000v6
Uh... not everything that's made in russia is crap. For what I can gather the RD-180 is used on the atlas rockets, will be used on the Rus-M, and will more than likely be used on the ares rockets.
But, yeh the chinese technology is basically a knock off of soviet stuff, bad knock offs at it too.
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Not everything, but most Soviet equipment was notorious for its poor reliability. Keep in mind, we aren't talking about the stuff from the last 5 years, a lot of it was considered new to the Chinese 15-20 years ago and their engineering and manufacturing skills were not nearly as good then as they are now (which is still somewhat limited).