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There is no relation or isogeny between these two destroyers, but they're 90 percent on similarity.
Are there any more such ‘same’ ?
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Care to name the aircraft? I think I know what the Swedish one is but not sure of the designation of the Italian.

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I had always wondered about the similarities between these two types. The wiki page states that Regianne "Took inspiration" from the P-35. It would appear that a bit more than inspiration was taken in the look of the Re-2000. When I was a much younger anorak interested in these things, I actually thought they were the same aircraft until I took a closer look! :rolleyes:

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Steve

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Hmmm interesting because the Swedish air force used both.

Was interesting to read that Roberto Longhi and Antonio Alessio itook definitely took inspiration from the contemporary P-35 which it superficially resembled.

I wonder if the Swedes use of the Re2000 was prompted by its similarity to the P-35 after no-one else would supply them with aircraft early in the war.

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If you're going to design something to do a very particular job(not just aircraft) chances are two designers will finish up with very similar looking end products.

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How about Mig 25 / F15?

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If you're going to design something to do a very particular job(not just aircraft) chances are two designers will finish up with very similar looking end products.

But I guess that could be applied to the Spit and 109, but two very different looking aircraft. The Russians have always been very good at producing dopplegangers of Western types, Rockwell B-1/Tupolev Tu-160, Concorde/ Tu-144, Dc-3/Lisunov Li-2..gosh! The list goes on. Potential of a separate doppleganger thread maybe? :)

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Emile, you are completely right.

It is explained in the book "Republic's P-47 Thunderbolt" by Warren M Bodie. This Italian Reggiane Re-2002 is derived from the Re-2000, which was an unauthorized copy of the EP1-68 (which was the export version of the Seversky P-35).

Another funny anecdote is that for the Seversky Company to survive they had to sell 6 P-35's to a Mr Yamamoto.
Mr Yamamoto saved the Seversky Company, which then continued the design of the P-35 to the P-43, which eventually became the P-47 under the new company name Republic.
That same Mr Yamamoto became a hot shot in the Japanese Navy, which in turn was destroyed with the aid of a lot of P-47's