Google: toshiba submarines silent
It will take you to a Time mag article from 1987, when the story broke.
Toshiba and their Norwegian partner sold the Soviets the technology for computerized lathes that could produce the super silent propellers for the Russian subs from 1981-1984.
We knew something was up when the Soviet subs strated running much quieter. They had 265 attack subs to our 96 subs, and this almost caused a “sub gap”.
Remember in context,this is still at the height of the Cold War. Reagan would visit Moscow in 1988;the Berlin Wall came down in 1989; and the Soviet union broke up in 1991.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan.
Thank you.
Once I saw CNC I figured the equipment had the knowhow built-in.
The sale makes me angry even to this minute.
Yet I ask myself, how many management-types from Toshiba 1987 are still there at the top?
How long does should such a thing go on?