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US Parts in Russian Missiles

Gallipoli

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Aug 20, 2017
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US parts are extensively used in Russian arms. This should really anger all Americans. This happened through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

"The 9M729 cruise missile, which is fired from the Iskander-K short-range ballistic missile system, is one of the Russian military’s most advanced weapons systems with precision-strike capabilities.22 The cruise missile has roughly a half dozen socket attachment points that permit data to move through the heat shield. Some of these socket attachment points were manufactured by U.S. companies. In addition, the rails that affixed the circuit boards to the computer housing—as well as the circuit boards—were manufactured by U.S. companies. The 9M949 300 mm rocket, which is used in Russia’s Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher system, also used a fiber-optic gyroscope manufactured in the United States. Finally, the Russian TOR-M2 air-defense system utilized an oscillator designed in the United Kingdom, which is located in the computer that controls the radar.23
 
On one hand, Americans should be really angry that the Russians sold us oil and used that money to buy parts for their missiles. On the other hand, it made them vulnerable to sanctions on components for missile production. They are running out of missiles, because we are no longer selling them the parts. I doubt the substitutes of those parts can be manufactured easily.
 
By reverse engineering weapons, including cruise missiles, drones and helicopters, we have figured out what components they used. A lot of it came from the US.

"A total of 144 non-Russian manufacturers of more than 650 unique component models in Russian materiel used in the war on Ukraine. Many of these items were manufactured after 2014, when the war in eastern Ukraine first began and the European Union and United States imposed an initial set of sanctions on the Russian Federation. Some items were produced as recently as 2021."

 
Most of the Russians' sensitive components came from the same Western companies.

“We saw that Russia reuses the same electronic components across multiple weapons, including their newest cruise missiles and attack helicopters, and we didn’t expect to see that,” said Damien Spleeters, an investigator for the group who contributed to the report. “Russian guided weapons are full of non-Russian technology and components, and most of the computer chips we documented were made by Western countries after 2014.”

The investigators found an overall reliance by Russian engineers on certain semiconductors from specific Western manufacturers, not just in munitions but also in surveillance drones, communications equipment, helicopter avionics and other military goods.

“Over time, the Russians kept going back to the same manufacturers,” Mr. Spleeters said. “Once you know that, it gets easier to target those networks.”

 
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The American supply of technology to Russia continues. The Biden Administration is not doing enough to control the outflow. Two guys were caught by Germany. At least they are being extradited here for prosecution.
 
The transfer of secret technology is still finding its way into Russia, this time through Iran. Roughly two thirds of the parts for Iranian drones com from the US and Japan


New intelligence collected from downed Iranian drones in Ukraine shows that a majority of the aircrafts’ parts are manufactured by companies in the U.S., Europe and other allied nations.

Out of more than 200 technical components identified ...that make up the innards of the captured drone, roughly half were made by firms based in the U.S., and nearly a third by companies in Japan, according to the report.

 
According to the Washington Post, the Russian economy is getting creamed. There is no pay wall on this article.

“All objective indicators show there is a very strong drop in economic activity,” said Vladimir Milov, a former Russian deputy energy minister who is now a leading opposition politician in exile. “The spiral is escalating, and there is no way out of this now.”
The Western ban on technology imports is affecting most sectors of the economy, while the Kremlin’s forced mobilization of more than 300,000 Russian conscripts to serve in Ukraine, combined with the departure of at least as many abroad fleeing the draft, has dealt a further blow, economists said."

 
This is disgusting. We are killing our allies. American and Western parts are still being used in Russian equipment, including newly manufactured missiles.
"components from American, European, and Japanese semiconductor giants in all of the main cruise and ballistic missiles regularly used against Ukraine....
The list of companies includes U.S.- based Texas Instruments, XILINX (subsidiary of AMD), AMD itself, Integrated Device Technology, Altera (subsidiary of Intel), and Cypress Technologies (subsidiary of Infineon)"

 
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