“Then a defector brought one to us and it had rust on it and would burn up its engines with too much thrust”
Then a couple of years later, they figured out that what they had been laughing at before, allowed the Mig-25 to fly and fight in an nuclear EMP environment.
That led to a years long-delay in the Nightwatch/Air Force One 747 programs, as they were refitted for EMP.
Was Soviet Equipment “junk”?
We’ll yeah, by OUR standards.
By Soviet Standards, where they accepted a much higher threshold of losses than we did, they were good for the missions they were designed for.
The U.S. inspectors laughed at the MiG-25’s vacuum tube radios. They later discovered these were impervious to EMP.
My 1947 radio phonograph is kept running with Russian made vacuum tubes. Don’t last nearly as long as RCAs or Raytheons, though. At least they’re available.
that's Soviet philosophy to the tee. Numbers that they can put on the field are meant to out weigh technological advantage cause human life is worthless/cheap and they can field huge numbers of inferior tanks, planes etc. to defeat an army that is technologically superior.
Same as it ever was....same as it ever was.
Yup. Perhaps similar to the mass production of tanks by the Roosians during WWII; cheap, but effective and can be mass produced quickly. Who needs quality.