off topic: Soviet "Quality"? RE: The PC's Soviet?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Apr 15 21:50:46 1998

At 11:06 AM 4/15/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> Hotze wrote:
>> Yeah, that's why all the newest Soviet fighters and bombers
>> used vacuum tubes
>> even into the early 1990's. I'm sure they invented this and
>
>Not so fast, there are very good reasons to use tubes instead of solid
>state on certain types of military electronics. Look up "EMP" sometime.
>This was a deliberate design decision on the part of soviet avionics
>designers. They do have workable solid state devices. In fact, the
>later Sukhoi and MiG models had very sophisticated interlocking radars
>at the squadron level, a capability US forces do not have.

  Whoa!!! Where have you been for the last 15 years? I worked as a RADAR
tech in the USAF as well as working on various guidance systems for a
*MAJOR* US defense contractor and the US DOES HAVE linking RADAR systems
and has had for a looonnnggg time. We have in in ALL aircraft, also in
tanks and other armored vehicles and even in some man portable units.
Frankly, we could have had RADAR linking much sooner but we didn't need it
since we had AWACS and it's predessor the EC-121.

 Yes, overall
>the US made much better avionics and electronics in general, but when it
>was important enough the soviets could produce very good military
>equipment.

 Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! When was the last
time you looked at a piece of Russian military hardware????????? It's very
crude!!! Try interchanging a few parts in ANY of the AK-47s. Nothing is
standard, it was all hand fitted to get it to even work! Even their best
produced guns have rough machining marks and flashing all over them.
Their best military equipment is poor even when compared to our so called
"Saturday Night Specials". Stalin used to say that "Quantity had it's own
Quality". He was specificly referring to their poorly built weapons.


 Off topic, but I much prefer Russian assault rifles to US
>ones. I keep an AK47 at home, I would not trust an M16.

   I have several of both, along with H&K, Daewoo, FAL and others. Yeah,
the AK is reliable but it's accuracy is pathetic! The H&K is the most
reliable IMHO, but overall I'd pick any of them over an AK!

  My $.02 worth.

   Joe

 I wouldn't
>care to run a business with a Russian built computer though...
> Jack Peacock
>
Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 21:50:46 BST