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UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Tigra 07

Re: Is their hardware history better or worse than their software history?

"But we did invent the Jet engine that the jump jet uses and then promptly gave the Americans the details for free"

We had no choice. In exchange for American help during WW2 we had to sign over large swathes of advanced technology for free. They profited heavily from the war while we were left in debt for decades.

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