Chapter 1726 Technology relies on India

Xiao Peng thought that Ekaterina would argue with him, but Ekaterina curled her lips and burst into tears.

This made Xiao Peng depressed. He sighed and stretched out his hand to the two women on the ground, saying, "Don't sit in the snow anymore. Get up quickly! Our car is parked over there."

He returned the same way and found Kasim. Eugenia saw the gun on Kasim and realized who had saved them. She dragged Ekaterina along and thanked Kasim. They returned to the car. Xiao Peng poured them a cup of coffee to warm them up, and then he asked about the whole story.

Ekaterina and Eugenia found a car parked on the roadside just now and rescued two Indian men from the car. They claimed to be business representatives of the "Chandigarh Energy Company" and were in Noyabrsk on a natural gas procurement mission.

It's not surprising that Indians are sourcing energy here. Russia and India have a strong economic and trade relationship. Cooperation is deep in both military and energy sectors, and at least half of India's multinational arms are sourced from Russia.

However, contrary to popular belief, the military trade between them is not just about buying equipment from Russia, but rather a significant level of two-way cooperation. For example, Russia's latest generation fighter jet, the T-50, also known as the Su-57, was developed in collaboration with India.

Many people say that the T-50 is dragging India into cooperation in order to make India pay for it. In fact, this statement is really debatable.

It is a little different from what people imagine. In fact, in the field of electronics industry, Russia's overall level is actually backward.

In this regard, Russia and Japan are somewhat similar, and they also "clicked on the wrong skill points", but Japan clicked on the wrong skill points in the development of new energy vehicles; while Russia clicked on the wrong skill points in the development of electronics.

In the early years, there were no integrated circuits, and all electronic devices used vacuum tubes, capacitors, resistors and the like. However, the Soviet Union's level was really not low at that time, and it was even better than that of the United States in many aspects!

However, as technology advanced, the world entered the era of integrated circuits, a "core" world. However, the Russians felt that integrated circuits lacked anti-interference capabilities and reliability in warfare. Furthermore, they had always pursued a more adventurous approach, and developing sophisticated integrated circuits was unsuitable for their tastes. Therefore, they abandoned integrated circuits and instead pursued research on miniaturizing vacuum tubes. This, in turn, led to a significant weakness in large-scale integrated circuits.

In the beginning, integrated circuits were certainly less effective than vacuum tubes, but now? Integrated circuits are miles ahead of vacuum tubes! How much smaller can vacuum tubes get?

Although Russia has also recognized this problem and is striving to catch up in the field of integrated circuits, the gap between the two sides is too large, and the speed of upgrading microelectronics products is too fast. Now Russia's pace of catching up cannot keep up with the world trend - it is even far behind Daxia.

To address this issue, Russia has resorted to importing chips and electronic components. For example, 80% of the electronic components of Russia's GLONASS satellite positioning system, once known as one of the world's four major navigation systems, were imported. This was a crucial consideration when GLONASS was integrated into Daxia's Beidou system. Even the laser diffraction balancing and integrated navigation systems used in their Su-30S-M fighter jets are entirely imported from France.

They don't want this to happen, but there is really no other way. If they use their own related products, they will not be able to bring out the excellent performance of the Su-30S-M fighter.

What is even more surprising is that the fire control computer of that fighter jet was actually developed by India.

During the Crimea uprising, Russia was hit with Western sanctions, essentially cutting off access to imported electronic components for military aircraft. While Russia could use similar domestic products for things like HUDs and navigation systems, the fire control computer was out of the question. This involved rewriting the software, a massive undertaking, so they had to look for a comparable product, and they ended up using an Indian fire control computer.

The reason why India has this kind of fire control computer is a bit funny.

India purchased a large number of Russian Su-30MKI fighter jets that year, but that fighter jet almost made the Indians cry.

Is that a good plane? It is! But it has a serious problem: it has a mix of equipment from various countries!

Basically, it is a Russian phased array radar and various weapons with French navigation and HUD equipment. However, these weapon systems are completely incompatible! The Indians have no choice but to develop a fire control computer to make these weapon equipment compatible.

In fact, Indians are not as bad as people imagine. After all, they have some basis to be known as the strongest country in Asia. The source of their confidence is Hindustan Aeronautics.

Which country in the world has lost more fighter jets than its total active air force? The answer is India.

India has only one company capable of manufacturing aircraft: the renowned Hindustan Corporation. Therefore, all fighter aircraft maintenance work in India is entrusted to Hindustan Corporation. Almost all crashed Indian fighter jets have been rebuilt by Hindustan Corporation.

It's no exaggeration to say that it's not surprising for a plane repaired by Hindustan Aeronautics to crash; it's surprising if it doesn't! Since its founding, Hindustan Aeronautics has successfully crashed over a thousand fighter jets after upgrading, renovating, and repairing them. And that number is constantly increasing.

But don't underestimate Hindustan Aeronautics, after all, it is the largest military-industrial enterprise among the nine state-owned enterprises directly under the Indian Ministry of Defense. They have nothing but money! So they really developed a fire control radar that can be compatible with Western and Russian standard equipment.

Now, in addition to exporting Indian fire control radars back to Russia, basically any country that buys Russian aircraft will also buy their fire control radars, making it one of the few profitable export projects of India's military industry.

See, as long as your thinking is accurate enough, you can make a fortune by buying garbage.

However, Indians in Russia are mainly concentrated in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and are rare here - otherwise the curry here would not be so bad.

But these two people are not without their advantages: they speak Russian fluently, are humorous and knowledgeable, so the four of them quickly became friends in the car and the atmosphere was very good, which even made the two women a little moved.

As a result, the car had not been driving for long when an accident happened, and that accident led to the subsequent events.