Just so you know

The electronics of this crap (including the gun stabilizer) work on vacuum tubes.

Now you know.

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Wow! I don't care!

I bet your tank doesn't even have electronics.

So it's EMP-resistant. Based.

Ok, and?

If it ain't broke don't fix it

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I was suprised when I found out that US and Russia use some vacuumed tube stuff. Like radio transmitter. Vacuumed tube allows it to send signals so storng that it fries unprotected recivers.

Russia has sophisticated and rock solid analog tech. They are not idiots.

That tank and the T-64 were so far ahead in terms of tech that west was shitting itself well into the late seventies.
Combat performance of it isnt reduced if the electronics is using vacum tubes and it wouldn't be increased if it was regular integrated circuits.

Unrelated to allnof this but there are some oretty advanced targeting systems you can make with analouge
Schematics from WWII for proximity fuses, fire control systems and other goodies are amazing to see
Nowandays you just slap in a computer and beat a wagie till you have something that works good enough

How can you operate anything - especially electronics - on vacuum? That’s the gayest thing ever.

Idk about the T-64
It has a big gun and is immune to MG fire so it can undoubtedly be used for infantry support

EMPs

Vacuum tubes can be produced domestically and easily be verified to have no backdoors. Transistors and ICs cannot.

Came here to post this

Fairly robust but incredibly power inefficient. E m p resistant to a certain extent. They probably had to change a lot of batteries out though. They know they're just going to get blown up they're not going to give them good shit not right away. They're just buying time the real war is happening to our food supplies while we all do nothing

What are you trying to say? That it's some old crap or that they will not have semiconductor pronlems with these tanks when China invades Taiwan?

>backdooring a vaccum tube
Kek

Power consumption is a secondary issue, if it's installed in many tons of steel moving on tracks.
Just make the generator a little bigger.

Pretty sure the fact the ammo is stored under the crew and turret like you're riding a landmine with wheels/tracks is a much bigger problem.

And vacuum tubes break easily. Other than that, I guess it will lack precessing power.