[opendtv] Incentives for buying EMP resistant CRT's ;-)

;-)

However, it seems to me that CRT's would provide better resistance to EMP...

From an article of the past...
" In an intelligence coup for the west, on September 6th, 1976, a MiG 25 Foxbat of the Soviet Air Defense Command flown by Lt. Viktor Belenko landed at Hakodate airport, Japan. Belenko was defecting to the west and gave them the first in-depth look at the aircraft. It was carefully dismantled and analysed by the Foreign Technology Division of the USAF, at Dayton, Ohio. After 67 days the aircraft was returned to the Russians in pieces. The analysis showed some surprising facts: 

   * The particular aircraft was brand new, representing the very
     latest Soviet technology.
   * The majority of the on-board avionics was based on vacuum tube
     technology, not transistors.
         o Some have speculated that this was not in fact inferior
           technology, but a deliberate approach by the Soviets to
           build a system much less prone to the effects of EMP during
           a nuclear explosion.
         o Vacuum tubes are up to 1000 times more able to withstand EMP
           than solid-state electronics.


John Shutt wrote:
...Well, it's as good a conspiracy plot as 'Blackout', where a giant EMP blows up all the CRT televisions in the world, forcing everyone to buy plasmas. 

John




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