[Chode]

i remember when Toshiba sold the six axis cnc machines to the russ... bad juju

[Navy Patriot]

i remember when Toshiba sold the six axis cnc machines to the russ

You raise a good point.

It was irresponsible then, and similar transactions with Communist China are irresponsible now.

[Spktyr]

Yup. As was said on the propeller page, the problem with that wasn’t that it enabled the Russians to make quieter props period - they already had the science behind it - but to make them in volume with the required quality control.