“WHAT FOOLS WOULD SELL US THEIR SECRETS?”

Stalin’s supposed remark about Britain’s decision to provide the USSR with jet engine technology has long been seen as a fair summary of the whole affair. The truth, though, is rather more complex BRITISH JETS TO THE USSR S-1, the initial prototype of the MiG-15 fighter — known at that time as the I-310. It took to the air for the first time on 30 December 1947. MiG/FOXBAT FILES IMAGE LIBRARY Members of the Soviet commission that visited British aeronautical