HELL, our entire stealth program is based on an article from a Russian academic paper from the 60s.
Actually, we were working on reduced-RCS designs earlier than that. The Lockheed A-12 OXCART and it's successor, the SR-71 Blackbird, were both reduced-RCS aircraft designs. Petr Ufimtsev, the Russian scientist you were talking about, developed a mathematical framework to predict the reflections of lasers. The Soviets informed him that it was useless, and allowed his work to be published internationally because they were deemed to be of no economic or military value. It was the engineers at Lockheed's Skunk Works, who were already working on reduced-RCS designs, that realized Ufimtsev's work could assist in the design of stealth aircraft.
Personally, mine at home are named after mythological deities.
Same here! I'm naming boxes after the Greek pantheon at the moment.
Fast, cheap, good: pick two.