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by credit_guy 1334 days ago
I think you are too charitable here.

I would simply state that some ideas are so ridiculously bad, they should never leave the paper. The fact that the soviets actually built one prototype is mind-boggling. Most likely there were some people in power who did not have an ounce of technical competence. Who in their right mind greenlights such a project?