it does, but at the same time, you have to remember that they once lost a probe to Mars because they had two different groups working on it, one that used imperial measurements, the other used metrics.
I worked in a company once where they hired a Russian engineer, and he designs this frame weldment, dimensions it all in cm, with no notes to that effect, then is stunned when it comes back built to his dimensions — in inches! He couldn’t even figure out what the problem was at first. Not the sharpest tool in the shed. He had this big story of how he quasi-escaped from the USSR, but after I worked with him for a while, I decided his presence was (whether knowingly or not on his part) a plan by the Sovs to destroy US manufacturing.