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Re:Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon ... by molecule on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:48PM (#26220238)
> I read that defector provided soviet jets at one point had tiny weeny valves, which were not indications of how backward their electrical engineering was: they were capable of being rad-hardened more than the IC's of the time. I'm not sure this is true.

Viktor Belenko's defection to Japan w/ a MiG-25 is a fascinating story unto itself. But, yes, the MiG-25 had vacuum tubes and other design elements that seemed like anachronisms @ first glance.

> The use of vacuum tubes also made the aircraft's systems resistant to an electromagnetic pulse, for example after a nuclear blast. They were also presumably used to provide radiation hardening for the avionics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...

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Re:Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon ... by wil421 on Monday February 22, 2021 @09:15AM (#26224753)
Whenever Vacuum tubes and Soviet Era aircraft are brought up it's stated they used vacuum tubes because they lacked the capabilities to make semiconductors. I am sure it helped with rad-hardening but it was not the reason they chose the tech.
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Re:Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon ... by aksss on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:25PM (#26220514)
Any book recommendations about this (the defection story)?
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Re:Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon ... by molecule on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:41PM (#26220618)
Belenko cowrote an autobiography, MiG Pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Pilot:_The_Final_Escape_of...

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