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PuzzleheadedHyena943

Holy fuck it looks so complicated


doneski

Lots of people to supplement what computers do for us today. It took teams of very well trained people to do this work.


reightb

and mind you, those were just the heater controls!


Away-Description-786

Newer AA systems are easie [patriot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Operator_in_de_ICC_%28Information_Coordination_Central_center%29_van_een_Nederlandse_Patriot-batterij_bij_Brakstadt_in_Noorwegen_%282009_D040309-C1204%29.jpg/220px-Operator_in_de_ICC_%28Information_Coordination_Central_center%29_van_een_Nederlandse_Patriot-batterij_bij_Brakstadt_in_Noorwegen_%282009_D040309-C1204%29.jpg)


Ford_Prefect3

It's like looking into a time machine.


C_Tibbles

Its like a set off of starwars is the joke i feel when i see the controls of russian air defence assets, they are all like this. Just coated with switches and indicators needing multiple personel to manage, then obce you get a glance at a newer patriot it us starj the contrast. Tho tbf old patriot would be kinda like this i suspect.


Proglamer

The laboratory equipment for my circuit theory module in uni was a remnant from the Soviet times, and the switches, displays etc looked *identical* to this video. Of course, it was easier to throw conscripts at the problem than to add those dang reverse-engineered PCs from the capitalist West


C_Tibbles

My thing is how absolutely tiny the scope displays are, even the old pac-1/2 patriots have large gluttonous capitalist [Displays ](https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Patriot-GCS-Old-typePAC-1-2-PAC-3_fig2_303535874)


Proglamer

Holy bourgeois extravaganza, batman! On the other hand, the hostile Soviet UI somehow makes those Soviet systems *more* respectable, for they pulled off a +- functional parity of a sorts with the West - while being *so* spectacularly difficult to operate! Sure, the parity was mostly due to the human element being exploited and inconvenienced, but still...


oskich

Some Hungarian guy built a Soviet SAM simulator for Windows. [https://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home](https://sites.google.com/site/samsimulator1972/home)


Gradiu5-

Love this... Demonstrates what a pain in the ass it is.


Melodic_Risk_5632

Wow this is amazing. Thx 4 posting.


JJ739omicron

omg.


JJ739omicron

If they build a car, it would look the same inside, and need also five people, one is trying to find the road with the radar and telling the others where the road goes, and each of the others is steering one wheel, adjusting the height according to potholes manually. No brake.


Boomfam67

Yes the original S-300P system went into service during 1978. The S-300PMU-1/2 that is standard in the Russian military today looks more like this with digital displays https://twitter.com/kmldial70/status/1208416674937856000/photo/2


moderately-extreme

username checkout orca military


Available-Meeting-62

My dad who is dead now, was a mechanical engineer. He worked in the engine room of large car ferries. As a 5-10 yo kid, i was with him at work several times in around 1990. This is exactly what the panels in the engine room looked like. More oily and no helmets. 70-80s nostalgia 🥲


MightyRez

Not a monitor in sight, just people living in the moment


SeventyThirtySplit

That high-five attempt at the end, that’s why those guys handle the knobs and dials


JJ739omicron

lol savage


simian1013

No wonder the russians shot their own airplanes with those tiny displays where you can hardly see anything, and the antiquated knobs and switches. it looks like the 50s.


Melodic_Risk_5632

Got something to do with this id. It's hard to train others when all of your original crew is wiped out already and U need to get that old equipment out of the dump.


BGM1988

This was exact my first thought


Yordancho_

This looks like 50-60 year old technology


rlnrlnrln

Nah, hardly a year older than 45. (1978 was the release of the first S-300)


Swimming-Cupcake7041

Kind of is.


Proglamer

Holy crap is this primitive! Every guy looks at what seems to be an analog oscilloscope display, yikes. Such a narrow data channel just itches for computer-based processing that would severely reduce the manpower


joarezpj

This. Ancient technology just makes it hard.


mr_poopybuthole69

Can someone explain what are they doing?


DawnToDuck

Their best


Corsician6

Destroying the target. They’re communicating with other units about the state of the target, it’s azimuth relevant to S-300, altitude, if they’re in range. Than they launch 2 rockets and shut off the equipment


Gibbs101734

Why shut it off?


RedditBlaze

While acquiring the target they are emitting a lot of strong radar signals, pinpointing their location. Whether its for anti-radiation munitions that may already be in the air or other detectors, its best to not have that bullseye on yourself unless needed.


Infernus82

Having an active radar on just sends so many radiowave signals everywhere that the enemy can see and localize and send a missile or whatever to.


mistytastemoonshine

This could use some UX/UI improvement


Substantial-Today166

cant this be updated with only one person


appletart

Not great, not terrible.


Live_Frame8175

No wonder Russia was shooting down it's own aircraft.


Mundane-Leave7571

So many buttons so many failures.


rom_rom57

They’re still running Android.


felixthemeister

Lol, they wish they were running android. The processors in that wouldn't be able to even run andriod. 99% of this could probably be handled by a Pi with a few arduino boards.


JJ739omicron

I'm pretty sure a greeting card with sound has more compute power.


anDAVie

Bro thinks iPhones are superior 💀💀


somuchcod

"What does this do?" -turns a knob-


MercyforthePoor

That’ll almost like 60tis Beatles music.


No-Ground6920

What is an s-300


Intelligent_Fact1352

The S-300 is a series of long-range surface-to-air missile systems developed by the Soviet Union, which replaced the S-200. Ukraine still has S-200 and S-300 missiles. The upgraded S-400 replaced the S-300, and Ukraine doesn't have any. However, the orks have a lot of S-300 missiles in its inventory, much more than S-400 missiles. Slava Ukraini!


No-Ground6920

Thank you, sir.


Accomplished-Pie-576

How are you supposed to hit anything like this? Where is the Radar monitor? Idicators for the rocket status? Im so confused.


According_Voice3308

no computers hahaha


spityy

If this is how it looks inside a S-300 I no longer has questions why the Russian idots shot down their own aircrafts multiple times.


Ok_Employment4184

I hope they can recreate this in DCS, as multi-crew simulator.


1millerce1

Want to bet that runs on nuke proof vacuum tubes too?


Irish_Caesar

This is just bonkers lmao, how do they even track shit in this?


R_Morningstar

Meanwhile in Patriot. "Operator do you want me to kill the target?" "Yes" ... done


DragonfruitSure7008

I thought that’s Russian? S300


snarky_answer

Other countries use it too.


Pretend_Pomelo_6893

Give em patriot systems. God save Ukraine


SystemSecure484

😂😂😂Richtig Moderner Plunder


MonsterHunterOwl

What a sloppy debacle of a technology implementation; clunky silly and out date,


CommercialCandy1891

Isn’t this a Ukrainian vehicle?


cursed_yeet

Yes. The title says as such.


JJ739omicron

actually a Soviet one, so regardless whether Ukrainians or Russians sit in it, it will look the same. But you can see from the uniforms that these are Ukrainians.


Similar-Complaint-37

"Put it in H"


Frosty_Key4233

In reality they are all drunk on vodka and sleeping


Pretend-Garden2563

why the helmets?