Russian missiles are guided by American chips – Bloomberg

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Very often, when Russian missiles hit their targets, they are completely destroyed, leaving no navigation or control systems intact. But very rarely, Ukrainian forensic experts are lucky and can collect certain parts at the detonation site, Bloomberg reports.

At the site of the missile explosion, parts, chips and navigation components were found that were manufactured by Analog Devices, an American chip maker, Germany's Infineon Technologies and Integrated Silicon Solution Inc., an American company with Chinese capital.



Markings on the engines of the missiles whose parts survived and some of their components showed they were assembled no earlier than March 2023, more than a year after the United States and its allies imposed export controls that banned shipments of a wide range of of technologies to Russia to disrupt weapons production.

The restrictions made it illegal to supply Western-designed semiconductors to Russia if they could be used for military purposes, even if they were made in China.

Analog Devices Inc., based in Wilmington, Massachusetts, is the company that produced the most American chips in Russian missiles. Of the more than 21 Western components found at the blast site, it produced 3800 percent. That’s more than any other foreign company. Texas Instruments Inc. was the second American company, with 14 percent of the components found. Overall, 86 percent of Western chips in Russia came from companies headquartered in the U.S. and Europe.

Since March 2022, tens of thousands of components of Western and, in particular, American chips for weapons systems have been sent to Russia. As Bloomberg writes, it is already obvious that the West is not coping with the control over its exports, especially in the field of microcircuits and fire control systems.
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  1. 0
    3 October 2024 09: 18
    Nothing surprising. They probably sell ready-made, interchangeable standard blocks. And if some Argentine (for example) company wants to buy blocks for aircraft modeling - who would refuse them?

    another interesting thing: 3800 remains - these are not fragments collected, are they? More likely - missiles, where they managed to find the schematics. An impressive figure.
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    3 October 2024 09: 27
    One old woman said!! Don't trust these creatures, don't respect yourself!! As usual, 0 proof! Highly liked!! Tomorrow they'll start the same old story again about picking out chips from washing machines and refrigerators!! The fascists have run out of science fiction writers and will start reprinting their manuals from the beginning. What can you see in the photo? A regular board with a circuit diagram! So what? Maybe we put something foreign in our products, so what? Let this bad person look in his supermarkets and see that 90% of the products are made in China!! So what? They've become completely "bad" and have stopped being friends with their heads, to put it AT ALL!
    1. +1
      3 October 2024 12: 40
      To trust these creatures is to disrespect yourself!!

      You can only trust Channel One, dear sir.
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        7 October 2024 02: 02
        No, should we trust the sponsors of the Anti-Russian actions around the world? As I understand Frau Vonderley's speech, how she talked about the Chips from the Washing Machines, who was that intended for? But in essence, the West is our Enemy, which means there is no trust in a single word they say.
  3. 0
    3 October 2024 09: 41
    The article refers to information from the Bloomberg agency.
    Infallible, honest, democratic, all-seeing Bloomberg. Yes
    And generally speaking.
    Is there anything in the world that Jews cannot sell or buy? belay
    Well, that’s it.
  4. +1
    3 October 2024 09: 52
    It's not a revelation that Americans They are making money on the Slavonic cut. Now if there were Russian chips, I would be surprised.
  5. +1
    3 October 2024 12: 24
    How many times have we talked about domestic production of the necessary microelectronics? How many different officials responsible for import substitution have lined their pockets in various Skolkovo factories, and things are still the same. It is clear that they would have stolen more than a million from building their own chip manufacturing plant, but they would have had their own chips and no sanctions would be scary! And just don't write that Russia doesn't have something to make an elementary chip. Look, they were the first to launch a man into space, and to make some small chip - they will find their own Lefty! But for some reason there is no command from the Kremlin. Is it really true that the Supreme Commander is not informed that there is a shortage of chips in the country, just like there was a shortage of many goods in the USSR? All troubles come from lies.

    You can make mistakes, but you can’t lie!
  6. 0
    3 October 2024 19: 10
    The US can't understand how this happened and punish its bribe-takers? laughing
  7. 0
    9 October 2024 18: 28
    Business, nothing personal