> In the early 1970s, Lockheed Martin engineer Denys Overholser discovered the key to stealth technology hidden in a stack of translated Soviet technical papers. Disregarded by the Soviet academic elite, and unheard of in the United States, Pyotr Ufimstev had worked out calculations that would help win ...
Not sure of the details of this story, but in general having there enough people to grant them time just to search for something interesting seems not unrealistic.
"When Soviets Won the Cold War: Wading Through Pyotr Ufimstev's Work on Stealth" (26.03.2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39830671
> In the early 1970s, Lockheed Martin engineer Denys Overholser discovered the key to stealth technology hidden in a stack of translated Soviet technical papers. Disregarded by the Soviet academic elite, and unheard of in the United States, Pyotr Ufimstev had worked out calculations that would help win ...
Not sure of the details of this story, but in general having there enough people to grant them time just to search for something interesting seems not unrealistic.