Russian US-9 RCVR (was: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-348 Finish - Paint question)

[D C *Mac* Macdonald]

Soviet bloc hardly ever threw anything away.  As newer
equipment became available, older stuff moved one step
down the chain in order of priority.  True for weapons,
communications, radar, etc.  Lower level priority areas,
allies, targets, etc. were thus given upgrades in turn.

For example, older radars were moved down chain to
be used as gap fillers.

Mac, K2GKK/5
USAF 1961-1981



----Original Message Follows----
From: "Hue Miller" <kargo_cult at msn.com>
To: <Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] BC-348 Finish - Paint question
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 01:10:22 -0800

 >Russian US-9 receiver that followed me home from Dubai.
 > It has a solid state supply in place of the dynamotor (original) and they
 > replaced the 6F7 with a subminiature. This one was made in 1976, and was 
in
 > service until at least 2001.
  > John  WD5ENU/A45XV

Built in 1976, used til 2001 ?????
Man, if they had not had megaton missiles, they wouldn't have had any 
credibility
at all.
Antiquated equipment, a high operational failure rate, and with allies of 
dubious
loyalty - a conventional war was something the Soviet military obviously 
planned
for, but i wonder if they maybe suspected how quickly their forces would 
collapse,
when operating outside the homeland.

In the last couple years of the Soviet Union, when the rot was really 
obvious, i once
heard a news commentator describe the Soviet Union as "Upper Volta, with 
rockets".

Interesting equipment, no doubt, but i just had to comment on how hopeless 
it was
to stock a military with such equipment in the age of computing.  That idea 
probably
dawned on the DPRK also. -Hue Miller
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