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Do you have a source that can confirm that Sobietd copied the A-20, B-25, Do-17 or yadda yadda?Does anyone know why the Russians didn't build a copy of the He-111 the way they did the A-20, B-25, B-29, Do-17, C-47, yadda yadda? Or did they, and it's very obscure?
Practically speaking? In the 1940s the difference between reverse engineering and license production was huge.Copied, built, same difference
There is also the licensing aspect. The builder paid the original manufacturer for the right to build the aircraft (such as the Soviet's DC-3/Li-2).
The reverse engineered B-29 was not done with Boeing's permission nor did they ever receive compensation.
yes and no.The difference to me is in one case you are buying the blue prints and in another you are drawing them yourself. In the end you're still building an aircraft.
To be honest, the He111 had nothing on several of the Red Airforces' twins and was closer in performance profile to the Tupolev ANT-40 than any other types.If the Soviets had taken, say, a captured HE-111H in mid 1941 and bolt-for-bolt copied it and gotten it into production just in time for, say, the Battle of Kursk, would there have been any advantage to it vs. the Tu-2 already in series production by then?
Or not so slight. I don't know what they got but B-29s were built in several factories so even with everything going very well there are going to be a few differences.very slight differences of the three airframes