The Wall Street Journal, based on the data of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, published a material on the fact that 70% of Iranian UAVs are made of foreign components, in particular manufactured in the United States.
It is necessary, what a sensation! And did anyone doubt that the country, which has been under sanctions for decades, was able to produce such devices using only domestic potential? The military-political columnist of the "Information Resistance" group expressed his opinion. Oleksandr Kovalenko.
Let's say so. In Ukraine, no one doubted this, because since 2014 we have been watching how Russia, which is under sanctions, used Western technologies in its military-industrial complex.
For example, the French company ECA Group for several years supplied the Inspector Mk 2 unmanned boats and the Seascan Mk 2 anti-mine defense underwater devices to the Russian JSC Sedny-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant, which is under US and EU sanctions!
The French Inspector Mk 2 complexes from ECA Group were integrated and used by the minesweepers of the Russian Navy of project 12700 "Alexandrite".
Russian Su-30SM fighters were equipped with windshield indicators (ILS) manufactured by the French company Thales HUD 3022.
The Russian Orion medium-range attack UAV is equipped with an Austrian Rotax 914 power plant with a capacity of 86 kW manufactured by BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co KG, which is a subsidiary of Canada's Bombardier Recreational Products.
The sighting and sighting gyro-stabilized optical-electronic system (MOES) of this drone, developed by the Russian company NPK SPP, was created on the basis of Argos, manufactured by DS Optronics, located in South Africa and is a "daughter" of Airbus.
Also, the Austrian company Diamond Aircraft Industries not only supplied, but also localized production on the territory of Russia of light aircraft DA42M-NG, which are used for the needs of the FSB.
Russian Ka-62 helicopters as power plants use French Safran Helicopter Engines Ardiden 3G turbine engines, gearboxes and transmission of the main and tail rotors manufactured by the Austrian company Zoerkler Gears GmbH & Co, and in general, this helicopter, created, including for Russian security forces, more than 50% of foreign components.
Surprisingly, even the equipment of the Russian special forces is often foreign, by NATO standards, so-called. In particular, FSB security forces are almost fully equipped, just like the US army.
GK Kalashnikov produced rigid-hull inflatable boats DS-RIB 450 and DS-RIB 530, developed at the Rybinsk Shipyard, but using Drop stitch material for the hull, produced by the French company Orca, as well as Mercury four-stroke engines.
The so-called Kh-47M "Kynzhal" hypersonic missiles have more than 130 foreign components in their composition, in particular, they have integrated microcircuits from the USA, Analog Device.
And everyone already knows that almost all Russian UAVs are completely assembled from foreign-made spare parts. For example, the UAV "Granat" is equipped with a Japanese Canon camera, its electronic filling produced by the American companies Intel Corporation and Pulse Electronics, an engine from the Czech Model Motors and even an American battery from MaxAmps. -860. They also use a 32-bit microcontroller from the Swiss company STMicroelectronics, and so on, so on, and so on.
As a matter of fact, Iran is Iran, but what about Russia and, in general, the question of strict compliance with sanctions?
