Pens1566
Lifer
- Oct 11, 2005
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Yes, the US used Ukraine to conduct live field tests for the US for a completely new weapon system that hasn't even been deployed to US units. Now the US will use that data from live field tests against Russia to make the weapon system better. The US can thank the Russians for helping make US weapons systems better through field testing.
Yeah, it's basically free R&D in a real world environment.