The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 748 Soviet Imported Chips (Subscribe for monthly tickets)

The "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missile played a significant role in the Falklands War and achieved brilliant results, and naturally came into the world's attention.

Not long after, the Soviet Union obtained three "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles through channels and conducted research on the "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles.

By now, the Soviet Union has developed its own new generation of anti-ship missiles on this basis, but the performance of the new generation of anti-ship missiles developed by the Soviet Union is only 90% of the same type of "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missiles.

This 10% difference is due to the fact that the Soviet Union was relatively backward in the electronics industry.

As for satellite navigation systems, the Soviet Union was very powerful in aerospace. While the United States was developing GPS satellite navigation, the Soviet Union was also developing its own GPS satellite navigation system.

The Soviet Union's GNAS satellite navigation system was launched in 1982 and currently has 12 satellites.

According to the Soviet plan, it would take 20 years to launch 76 GNAS satellites.

Satellite guidance is also currently a development focus of the Soviet Union.

"Import chips from China, we need chips with advanced performance!" said a general.

The Soviet Union considered that the future mode of war would be nuclear war, and in that environment, transistors would be more stable, so the Soviet Union developed transistors.

Many people think that the Soviet Union's electronics industry was very backward. In fact, it was not. The Soviet Union's electronics industry was still developing well. It was only relatively backward.

In 1984, the Soviet supercomputer M-13 came out of nowhere and won the 1984 world supercomputer championship. To date, the M-13 supercomputer is still serving the Soviet Gabala long-range early warning radar station and is fully operational.

The Soviet Union was unrivalled in exploring the technology of miniaturization of vacuum tubes. In 1950, the Soviet Union developed its first transistor. In 1961, the Soviet Union developed a large-scale computer with all transistors. In 1970, the Soviet Union successfully excited the excimer laser for the first time in the world. Later, the Soviet Union manufactured a stepper lithography machine. At the same time, the Soviet Union was also the first country to develop a ternary computer. In 1959, the Soviet Union developed the world's first fully automatic mobile phone communication system "Altai" and won the gold medal at the Brussels World Expo that year.

The Soviet Union's computer theory was also ahead of most European countries, as can be seen from the Soviet papers in the field of computers.

Even now, China's published papers in the field of computer science cannot compare with the Soviet Union in terms of both quantity and overall quality.

"Are they willing to export chips to us?" someone asked doubtfully.

The relationship between the two sides is tending towards normalization. In recent years, the economic and trade relations between the two sides have grown very rapidly, and many Chinese products have appeared in the Soviet Union.

However, it is difficult to say whether people are willing to export chips, especially advanced chips.

"We have to give it a try. We are no longer enemies now!" Someone said, "They are willing to export even advanced weapons and equipment, so they are likely to agree to export chips as well."

"They are crazy because of poverty. They don't even know how to lower the configuration of advanced weapons before exporting them. They are crazy!" complained a general.

In recent years, the reputation of T72 has gradually declined. One of the important reasons is that the T72 main battle tank was completely at a disadvantage when facing the Type 80 main battle tank in the Iran-Iraq War.

Many military professional magazines list the Type 80 main battle tank as the world's number one main battle tank.

The second most powerful main battle tank in the world is the German Leopard 2 main battle tank.

In the eyes of the Soviets, this is not fair, because the T72 main battle tank exported by the Soviet Union is a monkey version, which is no match for the version for their own use.

"We can discuss chip imports. If they are willing to export chips, our personal computers will see great development!" Someone said in a deep voice, "Their reform and opening-up policy has achieved great success. They have made rapid progress in just over ten years. We can no longer look at them with the same perspective as before."

"In terms of weapons and equipment, many of their weapons and equipment have reached the world's leading level, and their market share in the world arms market has surpassed ours. In the civilian field, they also have many competitive products. They are now a major computer manufacturing country in the world, and the computers they produce account for more than half of the world market share."

"There is also a global satellite navigation system, which is more advanced than the American GPS and our GNSS. We have to face them." Once upon a time, China was a little brother to the Soviet Union.

When the two sides were in their honeymoon period, the Soviet Union acted as the master, and almost all Soviet technicians who came to China to assist came with several Chinese apprentices, teaching them hand-in-hand.

At that time, China was a post-war ruin, with everything in need of reconstruction and extremely poor. Even the army was made up of multiple brands, and there was no standardization in weapons, equipment, and uniforms.

But look at China today, which is considered by the Soviet Union to be the world's third most powerful military country in the true sense.

The army, air force and navy are all developing very rapidly.

Unfortunately, the military budget announced by China every year is very low, not even one-tenth of that of the Soviet Union.

One of the most important reasons why the power of Soviet reformers is growing rapidly is the successful examples of their neighbors.

Look at China now. After more than ten years of reform and opening up, earth-shaking changes have taken place.

In fact, China exports a large amount of goods to the Soviet Union every year.

However, it is precisely because many of China's light industrial products have greatly made up for the Soviet Union's shortcomings that Soviet shopping malls have a richer variety of goods and the contradictions are not too sharp.

"Damn it, if the nuclear power plant hadn't had the accident, the Americans would have suffered a huge loss this time." Some generals were very unwilling to accept this.

At the critical moment, when such a big thing happened, the focus of the entire Soviet Union shifted to the domestic area, solving the problem of nuclear power plants, inspecting nuclear power plants across the country, and strengthening the training of staff.

In order to eliminate external influences, the Soviet Union had to compromise with Europe and the United States, stop exporting weapons to Iraq, and withdraw its military advisers and technical experts in Iraq.

Otherwise, the Americans would never be able to mobilize so many troops.

Because that means, Europe is empty!
Even if the Americans want to do so, their European allies will dissuade and prevent them from doing so.

Because no one dared to believe that the Soviet army's iron torrent would sweep across Europe.

The others smiled bitterly. They had even drawn up a battle plan before, but it all went to waste as man proposes, God disposes.

The current Soviet Union has no ability to conduct large-scale operations.

Because all the attention is on the nuclear power plant.

All I can say is that the Americans got a good opportunity.

"There is a long way to go. If we miss this opportunity, there will always be another chance in the future!" An old general said solemnly, "The competition between us is not a one-day thing, but a long-term one!"

The rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union has lasted for more than half a century.

The two sides compete most of the time and in most areas, but cooperate at some times and in a small part.

Competition is the main theme and cooperation is the regulator.

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