At some point, the Soviets were quite stubborn, for example, indifferent in the face of the electronic revolution in the West, and continued to adopt electron tubes on a large scale, which were bulky, had few functions, consumed a lot of electricity, and all of them were hot. And they use the tube, racking their brains to come up with all kinds of methods, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in performance, this ability to integrate, is quite powerful, if they have the same electronic technology as the West, it will definitely develop a more powerful system than the West.

In fact, the Soviet Union also had transistor technology, the Soviet Union had transistors in the fifties, and in May 1953, the Soviet Union established a special semiconductor factory НИИ-35, which was later called the "Pulsar" consortium for mass production of semiconductor devices; In 1955, a production line for the production of transistors was also established at the Leningrad plant "Svetlana". And in the seventies there was the supercomputer Elbrus made of integrated circuits.

However, at that time, the Soviets still believed that the tube must have potential to be tapped. In 1953, the rod-shaped core vacuum tube appeared, which was greatly reduced in size and stuffed into the first artificial earth satellite, which far exceeded the power of the American transistor satellite.

Due to the interests of the department, the old-fashioned electronics experts of the USSR resisted transistors, and even more had the opinion of the military that transistors could not withstand a powerful electromagnetic pulse and could not be used in a nuclear war!

Therefore, in the Soviet military industry at this time, it was almost dominated by vacuum tubes, like the current MiG-25, the radar power of the fighter is huge, and the manufacturer is complacent, claiming that what can roast rabbits, in fact, it is just a big oven, which is not as good as the radar of the United States in the same period!

It's not too late, if you realize that transistors and integrated circuits are the real direction in the future, and catch up in this regard, the electronics technology of the USSR should be able to reach the same level as the United States, or even surpass! After all, the USSR had institutional superiority! In the planned economic system, as long as the above funds are supported, there is no need to think about whether there is a market.

Now, most of the circuits on this American-made EP-3 are transistors and integrated circuits! At the same time, it was also the first time that Soviet experts had come into contact with a specialized American military electronic jammer, and they were surprised by what their American counterparts did.

Transistors and integrated circuits! Is that okay?

At this moment, a voice from behind made them turn their heads one after another, and they saw that the comrade who had come with the commander in the base was solemnly stating his views to them: "The electronic system composed of transistors and integrated circuits is far smaller in size and weight than the circuit of the electron tube, and the energy consumption is also small, and moreover, it can achieve more functions. Looking at this US EP-3 electronic reconnaissance plane, it can reconnoiter all the bands of our Soviet Navy and Air Force and record all kinds of electronic information. In particular, integrated circuits are the development direction of electronic technology, and we must work integrated circuits. ”

This circuit board is to provide signals to the output screen, and the integrated circuit can easily carry out D/A conversion. There is no big chassis that can't fit on this one circuit board.

"Andrey, what do you say? The people on site are all experts. Next to Andrei, Kozhdub's face trembled, and he said.

Isn't this a class axe? Andrei is just a pilot, does he know so much?

Simonov's eyes lit up.

"If there is a nuclear war, won't all these circuits be destroyed?" A technician said.

"We are not afraid of nuclear war, and we are ready for nuclear war, but I think that a large-scale nuclear war cannot break out, after all, if a nuclear war really breaks out, then, even if we win, what we are left with is an apocalyptic world. We know this result, and so do the Americans. Andrei said: "I guess that the future war will be fought with high technology and electronic technology, not nuclear war. ”

There will be no nuclear war? The war of the future is a high-tech war? When those decision-makers in Moscow are idiots? Immediately, an engineer wanted to laugh.

"Just like our current MiG-25, although the radar in the nose is very powerful, most of the power is converted into heat and consumed, and the remaining useful power is insufficient, due to the limited processing power of the tube, resulting in very few radar functions, not even the ability of pulse Doppler, unable to filter out the signal in the ground echo." Andrei continued: "As a result, our MiG-25 fighters can only intercept targets at high altitudes, and if the enemy aircraft penetrates at ultra-low altitude and high speed, we will not be able to detect it at all." And now, the Americans' newest Tomcat fighter, equipped with the AWG-9 radar, can already guide six missiles at the same time and attack six targets. ”

Vacuum tube? How big does a tube have to be to make a computer? Integrated circuits are the direction! MiG-25's Whirlwind-A radar, weighing half a ton, uses an inverted Cassegrain antenna aperture of more than 1 meter, but the function is very simple, the nominal peak power is as high as 600 kilowatts, but most of it is lost in the form of heat, the detection distance of a typical bomber target is only 100 kilometers, and it can only be used to conduct a simple air search in a single-pulse system, and after capturing the target, it will lock on the target and guide the airborne missile to attack in a single-target tracking mode.

Andrei was absolutely right, and the Mikoyan Design Bureau was aware of the technical flaws, so the Tikhmilov Instrument-Building Research Institute began to help develop a pulse-Doppler radar on the basis of the MiG-23 high-altitude lark radar.

"Comrade Andrei, how did you know this knowledge?" Simonov asked with great interest, this time he came to the Sokolovka base and met such a pilot, Simonov had the feeling of meeting a confidant. Remembering the series of problems that the T-10 is facing now, perhaps it is time to change its thinking.

"Before becoming a pilot, I audited an electronics course at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute." "Actually, influenced by my father, I have been interested in electronics since I was a child, and I used to make ore radios on my own. After joining the Air Force, I collected information on the Air Force at home and abroad. ”

Andrei remembered his father in this world, but he was an engineer at a power station! With a deep knowledge reserve of electronic technology, Andre has been familiar with it and loves to tinker with some things since he was a child. And now, the technical data of the American Tomcat fighter has long been no secret, and the test of intercepting six targets at the same time has also been done.