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Sorry Ed, the arguments dont make any sense

Posted by Jim Doyle (A) on April 6, 2007 at 01:04:00

In Reply to: Good question. no good answers IMNSHO posted by Ed Sawyer on April 5, 2007 at 19:08:25:

You have to remember that the Chinese 845 is produced for industrial
and commercial radio service as replacement spare parts... Same with
the 211 and and 805 which is widely used in all kinds of sundry RF
industrial equipment. There's no incentive for the Chinese manufacturers to do 20-30 more years innovation beyond the Russians.
Why? Not exceptionally reliable is better because it creates a constant stream of demand. This is also known as "recurring revenue".

On the other hand, the Soviets were enticed to screening their materials and testing their production processes and ultimately inspecting the product. Why? Military reliability calls for it. Why? Because communications equipment is at least as important as ordnance in the field :) The military command, the field technicians and the factory management would not accept producing complete crap!

Further, the Soviets continued innovating in RF tubes far after the West vacated the field. This is evidenced by the large number of unique ceramic RF power tubes and microwave devices out there.

Not all Soviet hardware was crap. People mistakenly "make fun" of
their ICBMs as being foolishly dangerous and using liquid fuel. The
reality is the USSR *mastered* storable liquid propellants. The SS-18
and SS-19 is an amazing example of a highly reliable ICBM that uses
stored liquid propellants. These missiles were rolled out in the 1970s. They had the same combat response time as American solid-fueled
ICBMs ; they could be launched in under 5 minutes of prep time. Why did the Soviets wait on Solid Fuel? Liquid Fuel has other advantages solid fuel doesnt: You can throttle and turnoff the engine! ; something you cant do with solid fuel. The result? Better control of range and targetting options ; simplification of the software for guidance. With solid fuel, you can only apply the brakes. With
liquid fuel, you can hit the gas as well as hit the brakes. It's
Nationalistic jingoism to make fun of their storable liquid propellant ICBMs. From an engineering perspective, the work is admirable and the feature set it provides makes sense!

Soviet Military Stuff is very very good. Where they messed up was
spending all their money funding monkey business in Africa, the Middle East, Central America, Eastern Europe - as well as catering to giving "hand-outs" to countries like India, Cuba, Iran.

-- Jim

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