Russians are known for their shoddy engineering?

[Doom_Guy]

Is it true that Russians are notorious for their shoddy engineering?

They have lost several nuclear submarines, many of their space rockets have exploded on launch, Chernobyl melted down, etc....

 

[Tryharder62]

I didn't know that.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Non union help and below minimum wages.

 

[Sean]

Is it true that Russians are notorious for their shoddy engineering?

They have lost several nuclear submarines, many of their space rockets have exploded on launch, Chernobyl melted down, etc....

The yanks have had quite a few space vehicles blow up, too.

 

[thør]

It's not always the engineers, it's the culture.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BuC1-9jjL._SX330_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

 

[thør]

Russia, once described as a 3rd world country with titanium-hulled nuclear submarines.

 

[Doom_Guy]

I think the reason why there are so many Russian engineering failures is because communist bureaucracy always put politics ahead of safety standards and anything they engineered was rushed and done so with very little quality assurance oversight.

 

[thør]

I think the reason why there are so many Russian engineering failures is because communist bureaucracy always put politics ahead of safety standards and anything they engineered was rushed and done so with very little quality assurance oversight.

And, I believe it's because there were once (and sometimes still are) severe disconnects between the regulators, designers and the constructors. The engineer is always safe if he designs in accordance with the regulations. Of course, the regulations work well in Moscow, but not so well in other parts of the country. And, there are different standards for success. I toured a building that was experiencing a bit of foundation deformation and was told that it was perfectly fine as they only had to replace one or two panes of glass annually due to breakage. If that was my building in the US, no one would hire me because it would be considered a failure. But it's a success in Russia.

 

[Sean]

And, I believe it's because there were once (and sometimes still are) severe disconnects between the regulators, designers and the constructors. The engineer is always safe if he designs in accordance with the regulations. Of course, the regulations work well in Moscow, but not so well in other parts of the country. And, there are different standards for success. I toured a building that was experiencing a bit of foundation deformation and was told that it was perfectly fine as they only had to replace one or two panes of glass annually due to breakage. If that was my building in the US, no one would hire me because it would be considered a failure. But it's a success in Russia.

Not to mention that if you grease the right palms, regs don't exist.

 

[thør]

Not to mention that if you grease the right palms, regs don't exist.

One of the disconnects.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The yanks have had quite a few space vehicles blow up, too.

That's what the liberal Jew controlled media wants you to believe. American Space Vehicles are flawless and we landed a man on Pluto in 1927.

 

[Rachel_X]

That's what the liberal Jew controlled media wants you to believe. American Space Vehicles are flawless and we landed a man on Pluto in 1927.

Don't be absurd. It was 1929.

 

[Sean Renaud]

You're right. I tend to suck at dates.

 

[Hypoxia]

Back in the day, hard disks were shipped with printed lists of bad sectors. Users hand-entered those addresses into an exception table so the controller wouldn't try to access the shit.

BYTE magazine sent a team to USSR circa 1986 to overview Soviet microcomputer technology. They found that microprocessor / CPU chips were shipped with printed lists of bad... instructions. MOV B,A doesn't work on a particular unit so write warez to skip around that.

Thus, every single fucking microprocessor needed a customized operating system. Yikes.

 

[stickygirl]

They made a good job of this
http://www.nationalinterest.org/files/styles/main_image_on_posts/public/main_images/Tank_T-34.JPG?itok=W2szgjaf

 

[JohnnySavage]

Russia, once described as a 3rd world country with titanium-hulled nuclear submarines.

Seven.

And they only lasted 10 years.


The most widely used gun is the Kalashnikov so there's that.

On the other hand, most of their engineering was stolen from the US.

Which is fine. It's not like they designed the Hindenburg or anything.

 

[thør]

If you really want to talk shoddy engineering, India is in the running.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

As much as this sort of thing can be generalized, I find that when I work with Russian software engineers that they are very talented, efficient and write really clean code.

No experience with the guys building the nuclear subs.

 

[trysail]

T-34, T-62, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, Yakovlev and Kalashnikov.


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[ryan8558]

T-34, T-62, Ilyushin, Irkut, Sukhoi, Tupolev, Yakovlev and Kalashnikov.


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Mikoyan, Gurevich

 

[Sean]

R.G. Mechanix

 

[chillywilly2]

If you really want to talk shoddy engineering, India is in the running.

Hold on...its the contractors responsibility to ensure stability of the structure during construction

 

[trysail]

Mikoyan, Gurevich

How could I have neglected to include our dear MiG friends?




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[thør]

Hold on...its the contractors responsibility to ensure stability of the structure during construction

Those people that design the falsework/etc are engineers. They just get paid by the contractor.

 

[chillywilly2]

Those people that design the falsework/etc are engineers. They just get paid by the contractor.

explains the sarcastic eyeroll emote...they fucked up bad there