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Originally Posted by Ansgar Burkhard
Hehe. There is a reason the military is using more and more COTS in their platforms (F-15, Virginia class submarines, M1 tanks). Especially in this day and age of cyber resilience it is super important.
For instance, a smartphone will have more computing power than the F-22 computers. Sure they are super specialised but if you want to DDOS a military craft it doesn't take too much.
It is a combination of open technology (as in there are international conferences and It is discussed publicaly) in the civilian sector and the vast amounts of money spent on said technology. Last year alone, more money was spent in the gaming computer market (gaming peripherals like, certain CPUs, GPUs and soundcard for some reason) than tge entire UK defense budget. If you look at computing market and smartphone market combined you get almost as much as the global defense budget. New times... And these big ticket military purchases take time to build and be deployed. For instance, the new dreadnoughts form the Royal Navy are 2006 tech. By the time they are deployed it will be the 2030s and they are to remain in service until 2070 or so. Can you imagine using a computer from 2006 nowadays? I have a work laptop from 2009 (ThinkPad W510) and CW is one of the few games I can play in it. If I need to process satellite images in it it takes ages and it is generally not the fastest at doing anything (still runs though).
Anyway, found your remark interesting and kind of turned into a rant...
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Yeah, considering that 688's were designed in the early 70's I should have figured as much.
One of the big criticisms against the film Hunt for Red October was how "modern" the 688 was. All the stuff was in the right location, but really "sexed up" technologically speaking.
During an interview one of the producers said that they toured a 688 and at first they were going to duplicate it exactly, but after seeing how "old" everything looked they figured no one would buy that our first line subs had such ancient tech, so they sexed it up with color displays and digital readouts.
I laughed because that was my first thought as well.