Technologies Ahead of Their Time: The Role of Soviet Scientific and Technical Intelligence in Obtaining Leading Models of Military and Special Equipment in the Pre-War Period

The article discusses certain issues of obtaining and using foreign intelligence information in the Soviet defense industry in the pre-war years when creating domestic models of weapons and military equipment based on the latest scientific achievements. The paper considers the details of the process of implementing new technologies in the interests of domestic industry and science, in the field of rocket technology, calculating and analytical machines, unmanned aircraft and tanks, high-power generators.