Ukrainian authorities say that the Russian cruise missiles used in the 14 May deadly strike on Ukraine were manufactured this year using Western-made components.
  • Two_Hangmen@midwest.social
    16·
    5 days ago

    During WW2 the Remington company was selling ammunition to the U.S. and also the German Nazis.

    The Remington family has generational wealth today from selling bullets to kill U.S. soldiers. The Bush family, who had 2 people as presidents, are also married into the Remington family.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
    5·
    5 days ago

    had been manufactured in the second quarter of 2026
    …
    contained microchips from US brands such as Texas Instruments, AMD and Kyocera AVX, as well as Germany’s Harting Technology Group and the Dutch company Nexperia.

    Daymn

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      5 days ago

      Such a clear example of how in the “eyes of the powers that be” Ukraine was never supposed to win this war.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    5 days ago

    I honestly find it unconscionable that any company would do trade with Russia or it proxies. “Oh yeah, it’s bad that Russia is killing all those civillians with our components, but you can’t expect us to drop our trade “partners”, can you?”

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 days ago

      I mean it isn’t like some guy shows up and says their Russian and looking to buy missile parts. They do it through intermediaries. While it’s possible to trace parts back through the supply chain it’s not super simple when a micro chip can be used for many different applications.

    • quick_snail@feddit.nl
      1·
      5 days ago

      Depends.

      Russian activists need tools to protect themselves from their government. There are some items we should trade with Russians

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    5 days ago

    The SR-71, designed largely to spy on Soviet countries, was made of titanium sourced from Soviet countries.

    In the decades since then I would wager the arms race against “straw buyers” has favored the buyers. Especially when it’s just bare microchips. It’s not a dinky Polish auto-repair shop ordering five thousand Tomahawk missile nose cones. Some of these smuggling operations happen by accident, because the chip someone needs happens to be used in a fancy toy car. Or if you want to get conspiratorial, a toy car can be designed to use any chip in a missile, without raising a single eyebrow.

    Amateur rocketry enthusiasts have run into tracking problems because commercial GPS and motion-tracking hardware is designed to shut off past a certain speed. That’s how mundane and widespread some of these weapon components are: if you can jailbreak a TomTom and a Wiimote, you’re left making the part that explodes slowly and the part that explodes quickly.

    And drones are still scarier.