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Since 1990s the process of exclusion of gas-discharge and vacuum switches (GDSs and VSs) from pulsed power systems has been conditioned by two major factors - insufficient service time and necessity to supply filament circuits of GDSs and VSs. In the report, design and long-term test results of pseudospark switches (PSSs) are presented. The PSSs are to a great extent free of the mentioned shortcomings; in particular, the switches are capable of operating without filament, providing a wide variety of perspective applications of the tubes in pulsed power.