Compare socialism and capitalism on two aircraft models? Moreover, for the duration of operation .... it is "strong". The next step is to determine the firing range by the color of the Paint of the tanks?)))

TU-144 was built in the amount of 16 copies, Concorde - 20.
Commercial passenger transportation on TU-144 lasted 7 months, on Concorde - 27 years.
"Here's a simple comparison
socialism and capitalism! "

The USSR was the first state in the world in 1968 to create a supersonic passenger aircraft TU-144. The USA is coming to this now, after 54 years. Here's a simple comparison
socialism and capitalism!

Tu-144 (NATO codification: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger aircraft developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1960s and manufactured in Voronezh. The first test flight was made on December 31, 1968, which was the world's first supersonic passenger aircraft flight (the British-French Concorde made its first test flight on March 2, 1969). On June 5, 1969, for the first time in the history of passenger aviation, it broke the sound barrier. Commercial operation began in 1975 and continued until 1978.

"the first, since the beginning of this century" - ahahahaha ....
author, will you continue to write "from the beginning of the current decade" ?!
What nonsense ?!
The first was Tu-144 and no need to engage in sophistry.

shame - this is your comment, as it completely ignored a whole page of history - the collapse of the USSR.
about the shame and at the same time tell the French, and the amers, that only now they will have their own supersonic airliner 60 years after the USSR.
To make such a liner, there must be good engines that have been created in stages all this time. It's not for you to press the button in the toy and get the technology.

What does your mean - they didn't give money (didn't find it)?
Directly some "Minors" on the contrary.
According to yours it turns out. Give you money up your neck today. And you. Instantly. Without any knowledge. Give us a passenger supersonic instantly?
We are normal people. In fact, we reach with our heads what the passenger sound should be. Based on science. And the thickness of our lapatnik, in this matter, does not help at all from the word at all.
Money is only needed to confirm the correct direction of our brainstorming.
I.e.
For the experimental part of R&D.
And nothing more.
And your most interesting concept is that money is everything!
Leads only to accelerated degradation
Direct flow, was invented by a Pole at the beginning of the last century. And, with brains, not money.
Today for its construction. Every time you ask for billions.
Therefore he was then. But not now.
So that. Passenger over sound.
It. Not about money at all.

Dear D! You, as I think, did not understand the meaning of the phrase "to RE-THINK supersonic civil aviation and present the first commercial aircraft." The Tu-144 required a lot of fuel and was unprofitable, so it did not go into production. But the fact that for 40 years the state has not found the funds to ensure that our aviation structures could make a supersonic passenger aircraft commercially profitable for use on airlines, and only such an aircraft may be available only by 2030 - this, I think, is disgrace !!!

The author is clearly from the ballet. The first supersonic airliners began to operate on passenger lines back in the 70s of the last century.

The author probably makes fun of the readers. XB-1 single-seat experimental airplane similar to the 144.