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Originally Posted by DGthe3
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).
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True, true. The thing with soviet crap is that they never had the money to actually fix the stuff that they needed to, I mean on the blueprints, designs and prototypes a lot of the stuff that they built was similar to ours, such as buran and the energia rocket. But while here in the states scientists and engineers kept improving technology and updating various systems, the soviets just ran out of money.
But the stuff that they build nowadays isn't bad at all... except for their cars.