Reply to post: Kalashnikov = 'Cheap'?

Russia drags NASA: Enjoy your expensive SpaceX capsule, our Soyuz is the cheap Kalashnikov of rockets

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Kalashnikov = 'Cheap'?

The reason second-hand Kalashnikov's are cheap now is that they were made to a very high standard and in millions under the Soviets. Money that didn't go to hospitals and schools went to producing armaments.

Kalashnikov's and the Soyuz have something in common, they were designed long ago by a system that threw money at them.

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