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About compatibility, somewhere I recall reading that because the Soviet Union used American-built weapons in WWII, they standardized their bomb hardpoints to fit American ordnance, and thus NATO and Russian weapons are somewhat interchangable ever since, at least iron bombs. Is there any truth to this or am I smoking crack?
I seem to remember that WAPA aircraft were designed to be somewhat compatible with NATO equipment (mainly fuel) so as to make use of captured NATO bases in the event of an invasion of Western Europe. However, weapon compatibility would have been limited to dumb ordnance, because I don't think the Soviet/Russian databus could be used with NATO weaponry.