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anarxi

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This is a circuit board from a Russian missile, apparently it was hit by air defense and simply collapsed without an explosion.
Because boards from rockets that exploded look completely different.
Today I bought it at a flea market.there were others, but this one is the best.
 

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blue connector, socket, according to the Soviet-era passport, contains 0.59 grams of gold.
There is a diamond on it - a sign of military acceptance.
and although it was made in 2009, I hope its content has not changed.
 

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I bought another board for 2 euros.
Military acceptance mark, Russian tantalum capacitors...
 

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I hope these connectors have a coating of 0.76 microns.
:)
 

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I notice in the examples in your last post, that those connectors are press-fitted into the board and not soldered. I've noticed this in some enterprise grade devices too, and was surprised to see because I'd have thought that soldering pins would be more robust. My example was just from some old disk array's backplane (the board which holds all the connectors that the drives plug in to). The connectors were all press-fitted and not soldered, into copper-lined holes which were not gold-flashed.

I wonder why it is done this way?

Thanks for sharing your pictures!
 
obviously this is more reliable
This usually happens after normal activation of the product....
 

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there are a lot of such things on the market
several thousand missiles flew towards us.
Within a radius of 5 kilometers from my house there are more than a dozen....

but the connector turned out to be “weak”
25% of Soviet content.
We checked it today with a spectrometer.
 
I hope you stay safe, and continue to find more interesting things for your benefit! Weak gold is better than no gold I reckon.
 
Be careful out there my friend. I know that my country (Swe) supports yours with our newest bad @ss weapon technology🤝. If you find any pieces (left) from them, there might be some nice valuable stuff as well😉
 
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