[Milsurplus] Re: Russian B-29 HF Radios

Mon, 06 May 2002 09:36:17 -0400

The last I had heard, which was a few years ago admittedly, the Russians
still used quite a few tubed radios in their military gear because they
were much more concerned about (anticipated a need for) EMP protection
than the more "hi tech" solutions from other countries. That would seem
to be at least one of the reasons we still see lots of new Russian tubes
being available. 

Can anyone confirm that modern Russian mil gear, including aviation, is
still heavily tube oriented?

Thanks, Ray

Bob Wilder wrote:
> 
> Thanks Dave for the comments...At least they were
> smart
> enough to retain their tube type radios and
> control systems
> on aircraft instead of going all solid state which
> would fail
> in event of of nuclear detination.  All the
> Russian technicians
> I every ran into were real sharp guys.
> 
> Bob, AF2HD
> 
> David Stinson wrote:
> >
> > [email protected] wrote:
> > > Even with their best & brightest efforts to keep
> > > up by continuously stealing new technology, one could see that
> > > gradually they had to fall more behind...
> >
> > In fairness to the Russians- We worked with some of them
> > on the Joint Testing project in Nevada.  They are very, very
> > sharp people.  They are also very practical people.  I think the
> > copying of Western technology was more a matter of expedience then
> > a lack of imagination.  Their problems with some forms of technology
> > was due to their untenable political system- not a lack of intellect.
> > 73 Dave S.
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