Field investigators at the Automotive Research Center have just returned from documenting components of Russian-made advanced weapons systems in Ukraine. Work on sourcing and supply chains for these components has just begun. https://t.co/A3MqHsxMDW pic.twitter.com/5GMLCtvAbO
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The equipment that the Russian army uses in the fighting in Ukraine is based on Western technology. This comes after an analysis of two US experts who spent more than a week in Ukraine in May at the invitation of Ukrainian intelligence. The New York Times reported on the research.
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With the help of soldiers, screwdrivers and thieves, the two researchers studied the advanced Russian equipment they came to during their stay in Ukraine.
“The advanced Russian weapons and communications systems are built on chips from the West,” he said. New York times Research findings Damien Splitters, a member of the Arms Research Investigative Team, which collects evidence of arms supplies in conflicts.
trying to cut off Russia
US President Joe Biden’s office and the European Union announced Thursday that they will extend sanctions that Russia will cut on Western technologies and software.
When asked by The New York Times if export restrictions, specifically computer chips, were a burden on the Russian military, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said “yes unconditionally.” US exports (technology) to Russia, including semiconductors, by 90 percent since February 24. So yeah, that’s overwhelming.”
Although US officials, including the White House, speak of the sanctions as successful, experts are somewhat skeptical. “We don’t see much evidence yet that Russia has a problem in the defense sector,” said Michael Kaufman, director of Russian studies at the CNA Research Institute in the US.
According to Mary Sengovaya of George Washington University, Russia will face shortages of key technologies and components in the fall, when its companies and factories start to run out of supplies.
hide origin
An investigation team discovered the effects of Western technology on Russian motors, microchips, antennas and printed circuit boards. According to Splitters, the first two slides the researchers created were apparent attempts to conceal their origin. The brands have been carefully removed from their surface.
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However, the third segment of Russian radio passed through Russian censorship. It was the same as the first two and was clearly made in the United States,” the New York Times describes the results of the investigators’ work.
So far, Splitters said, the Russian military has managed to get around some restrictions on technology imports thanks to private distributors, fraudulent companies and third countries, noting that Russian companies “have had access to Western technology for decades.”
According to Snegovaya, the blackouts in Russian production are expected to make themselves more self-aware in the future. “But the question is whether Russian companies can find an alternative,” says the researcher.
A full report from the Conflict Armament Research Investigators, originally.
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