The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Greatest modular computer
The prototype of the A-35 system worked successfully, for the first time in the world shooting down an ICBM with a conventional anti-missile. Kisunko's correctness was brilliantly confirmed - a missile defense system can be created! Formally, he was given the go-ahead for ...
Missile defense of Japan
In the event of a missile attack from the DPRK, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces will use URO destroyers equipped with Standard interceptor missiles and ground-based anti-aircraft missile systems to repel it ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Attack of the clones
So, Zelenograd was successfully founded, but what did they start producing there? Unfortunately, 90% of its intellectual and industrial resources were concentrated around the release of clones of American IP ...
American air defense forces, aviation reconnaissance and control systems deployed in Japan
How will the US behave in the event of a conflict between Japan and Russia? What are the American forces stationed in Japan ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Zelenograd and Leningrad
Having figured out how integrated circuits were born and how the Riga school of microelectronics took part in this, we will finally return to the USSR and talk about the country's main computer center - Zelenograd ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Osokin vs. Kilby, Who Really Invented the Microcircuit
The most progressive scientists literally immediately after the invention of the printing process for boards and the transistor realized that these two technologies can be effectively combined, especially since discrete ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Long road to integrated circuits
The designers and businessmen of the 50s had 2 main tasks - to organize a full-fledged serial production of transistor machines and move towards miniaturization. The second task of the USSR was formally solved ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Transistor machines of the USSR
In 1954, the Ministry of Radio Engineering Industry - MRTP was created, the Council for Semiconductors was formed, its role, however, was reduced to consulting and educational ...
Modern Japanese radar airspace control and air defense control system of Japan
Currently, there is a continuous radar field over the territory of Japan and adjacent waters. In addition to numerous stationary radars, the airspace is controlled by AWACS aircraft ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Crystadins, triodes and transistors
Yuditsky was one of the first in the USSR to realize that transistors are a stone age, you need to build machines on microcircuits. Naturally, any microcircuits were not suitable for the successor to the K340A, all this was needed ...
Japanese anti-aircraft missile systems of the Cold War era
In this part of the cycle, American and Japanese-made air defense systems will be considered, adopted by the Self-Defense Forces during the Cold War ...
The birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Yuditsky builds a supercomputer
The K340A in 1963 was not the fastest computer on the planet (although it was second after the CDC 6600). However, he showed really outstanding performance, worthy of the annals ...
Unique and forgotten: the birth of the Soviet missile defense system. We return to the USSR
Finally, after an extensive preface, we proceed to the most interesting - how exactly did domestic missile defense computers develop in the 1960s – 1970s, what were their achievements and failures, who were behind those and ...
Complex "Nudol" against the background of other missile defense components
In the near future, an urgent program of modernization of the domestic strategic missile defense system will be completed. One of the elements of the updated defense will be the promising Nudol complex. About its characteristics ...
Japan's air defense system during the Cold War
At the first stage, Japanese radio engineering units were equipped with American radars and communications equipment. In the late 1960s, Japanese-made equipment entered service ...
Unique and forgotten: the birth of the Soviet missile defense system. EPOS project
In the USSR, the hero of our previous article, Antonin Svoboda, was not particularly mentioned for obvious reasons, however, another computer that he managed to build in the Czech Republic not only had a huge impact on ...
Unique and forgotten: the birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Czech Republic comes into play
Finally, we turn to the most interesting thing - the computer itself, created for the world's first missile defense system. It was, perhaps, one of the most exotic and original computers in the world, while ...
What will be the Joint Regional Air Defense System of Russia and Tajikistan
Russia and Tajikistan will create a Joint Regional Air Defense System. It is proposed to expand the existing mechanisms of interaction between the armies of the two countries, which will lead to an increase in defensive capabilities ...
Unique and forgotten: the birth of the Soviet missile defense system. BESM against Strela
The first Soviet computers were built. At this moment, we went head to head with overseas competitors. We started almost at the same time and, working in much more cramped pre-war conditions ...
Unique and forgotten: the birth of the Soviet missile defense system. Brooke and M-1
We continue to study the history of the first domestic computers used for military purposes, and gradually come to understand why, despite an excellent start, the race of computing power ...