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To: Boogieman

Older technology is often less vulnerable.

The Russians used vacuum tube radios in their MiGs & Sukhois. Impervious to EMP.


10 posted on 04/28/2014 8:00:02 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: elcid1970

+1

Radiation-hardened computers are always going to lag behind the most recent civilian tech. They’re secret + they’re made of non-standard materials for milspec + the job they’re required to do just isn’t changing.

I guess there may also be advantages against hacking. Smuggling a virus in on a USB stick gets you nothing if the interface is a triangular floppy disk or something crazy like that.

A nuke base is the classic venue for “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”


22 posted on 04/28/2014 8:20:10 AM PDT by agere_contra (I once saw a movie where only the police and military had guns. It was called 'Schindler's List'.)
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