Talk:Warframes/@comment-97.93.8.194-20150119220954/@comment-98.89.8.205-20150123155621

Yes and no.

In the years between WWII and the Korean War there were numerous research projects that continued after WWII under the pretense that if Germany (or mostly, Japan, since Germany was thoroughly defeated and split in two) somehow managed to rebuild their armed forces, the allies needed to maintain a technological edge.

The real reason for most of these was to combat a future Soviet threat, but at the time the US still maintained cool but friendly relations with the USSR, so we had to fund projects like this that were obviously meant for use against the Soviets, without actually saying so. Thus, it was in fact a "1950's Boeing WWII research project." At least publicly.