ORIGINAL: kondor999
Heh...actually the public domain stuff often has better analysis.
OT alert - does anyone else wonder if the 80's Soviet ASM's would have hit anything? I'm talking Kh-22m and KSR-5 here (aka AS-4 and AS-6). Just wondering, since they seem hellishly accurate, and it seems like Russian hardware looks great right up until someone tries to use it. What little data we've got about the combat performace of their systems isn't all that great. Seems like they did well at first, but eventually their lack of good computer hardware really handicapped them.
Case in point - their newest chopper (KA-50) uses an off-the-shelf 486DX2 processor. And this is 2009. Can you imagine what they had in an AS-6?!
Anyway, just curious. This is Naval stuff about which I know diddly-squat...
Operational use in the Iraq-Iran war (ARM and inertial guidance) apparently was disappointing if the reports are to be believed.
As for the use of what would be outdated electronics in the civil market, don't forget that they may be more than enough for military applications and are tougher than newer gadgets.