SOVIETS HAD INERTING SYSTEM
Way back in late 1940, the Soviet MiG-3 fighter entered production with a fuel tank inerting system that used engine exhaust gas pumped into the fuel tanks as fuel was taken out. More than 3,000 of these propeller-driven fighters were produced during World War II (AW&ST Jan. 6, p. 37).
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