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Originally Posted by RPS69
I did a fast search on the thing, and it appears that the floatless carburetors were available on german engines since WWI. But they entered russia in the hands of an italian airships builder, Nobile. After Hitler's arrival, and the german military industry withdraw from russia, the soviets managed to develope a native version from the old german one.
Maybe on the M82, the history is different, but is surprising that something so old was not taken by the allies at the end of WWI.
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I don't think that the Allies actually occupied Germany itself or 'looted' German technology after WWI the way they did after WWII. Part of the reason may have been that the relatively elderly diplomats negotiating the ceasefire were simply not that conscious of how important such things might become--they just said "give us all your Fokker D.VIIs" and figured that would end German air superiority forever.
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