I think cultural differences should be in taken into account as well. Oleg and 1C maddox had enormous open arms help and assistance from russian aircraft/defense industries. This is partly why the russian planes have very good modeling (FM and DM and 3d modeling) in this game.
This is very different when dealing with american aircraft/defense companies. Instead of giving blueprints and other data, american companies wanted money.
I don't think 1C and UBI fully udnerstood the american nature specially when it comes to proprietary trademark and copyright issues specially not knowing that Fairchild Republic,Vought and other old Long Island-based aircraft manufacturers were merged or absorbed by Grumman Corporation which merged with Northrop years ago.
And yes Ubi paid NGC more than the development costs for Il-2 which 1C was the one to suffer hence minimal incentive for delevoping the Il-2 series further.
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