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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by protomyth on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:29PM (#10155064)
Russia used tubes in a number of fighter radars because they could use a lot of power to burn through opponent's ECM.
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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by bch on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:40PM (#10155528)
ECM is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_countermeasure ...

(if dear reader, like me, had no idea what ECM meant in this context).

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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by njharman on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @03:51PM (#10155219)
Also less prone to EMP from nukes.
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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by protomyth on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @04:32PM (#10155457)
True, also a well understood technology that they would have no trouble producing.
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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by bigiain on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @08:40PM (#10156775)
I bet it's only "well understood" by a very small group of people in 2015.

On the other hand, at least it's _possible_ to make your own at home: http://makezine.com/2008/01/07/make-your-own-vacuum-tube/

I somehow doubt there's many talented amateurs assembling MOSFETs in their garages...

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Re:The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy – my wor... by protomyth on Wednesday September 02, 2015 @08:21AM (#10158678)
Perhaps I should have said "institutional experience", but the number of people creating fighter radars at the time were not exactly numerous.
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