How sanctioned Western tech is fueling Russia's military
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2023
- Mounting evidence suggests Russia is continuing to obtain U.S. microchips and other advanced Western technologies for use in its military equipment.
Such technologies are typically used to power our smartphones and laptops. But as so-called dual-use items, they have both civilian and military applications, and can therefore be repurposed into a range of items from drones to missiles and armored vehicles.
Indeed, one recent analysis of 58 Russian military equipment recovered from battlefields in Ukraine found more than a thousand foreign components - primarily Western semiconductors.
That's despite Western sanctions aimed at stifling Russia's war. But convoluted trade routes through intermediaries in countries such as China, Turkey the United Arab Emirates, mean that these essential technologies are still entering Russia, adding to Moscow's pre-war stockpile of raw materials.
Watch the video above as CNBC investigates the murky trade routes fueling Russia's war.
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So the khinzal hypersonic missiles are made with washing machine microchips, well then why the best in the world that produces the best microchips are not able to produce such a missile ?
Very impresive of them to do that indeed
The report failed to mention that Russia has the capacity to manufacture most of its semiconductor chips used in military and aerospace applications
The report did not mention this simply because Russia has no such production capacity. Russia is probably capable of making chips with the old 65nm technology and older, using old manufacturing lines that were discarded by IBM and AMD years ago and tnan sold to Russia. It is hard to say whether the machines are still in working order and capable of production, because Western companies do not service them.
@@gustorel3041well recently they lauched a probe and (lander im not sure) to the lunar south pole which extensively requires independent functionality of the spacecraft which in turn requires microchips and semiconductors, so there is a solid chance russia produces some form of modern microchipw
@@obamagaming-zv4vy The fact that they launched a lunar satellite once in 50 years (btw, with the help of the European ESA), it does not say anything about the level of the Russian industrial base.
@@obamagaming-zv4vy The new Russian lunar mission is part of their new joint space exploration project with China.
@@gustorel3041 mad that Russia is making gains huh? lol
I'm not sure what is meant by "Western technology". Nowadays, most products are manufactured and designed in Asia, so it's unclear how they could be considered solely Western. Can you provide more information about what you mean?
asking logical questions that require causality skills will get you branded as Kremlinbot around here. just eat the msm and Glory to Ukraina, bro
Perhaps they refer to their IP
@@mosalethoba5267cmon dawg all US does in the entire supple chain is DESIGN some parts 😂 and it’s the least difficult 😂
@@mosalethoba5267 The IP isn't theirs either.
Very correct 😅😅😅
Russia is quite able produce all the necessary components if required
Yes, instead they loot toilets.
@@vaultsjan NAFO bot madd ?
The last time I looked at a map of Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan, which make most of the Western technologies are not Western hemisphere. Are you not better at using the term Allied technologies? Part of the reason why TMSC did not open its manufacturing plant in America, was because it could not recruit enough engineers in the US.
True. Yet the semis are designed in US and need European laser optics to manufacture. Taiwan provides the fabrication factories for the semis. TSMC and Intel are setting up foundries in US.
Australia isnt in the western hemisphere but is considered western
@@haseen5286 These terms are from a colonial past and need to be dropped. They imply a superiority over the rest of the world which is not deserved.
@@AbdulEssa-kp4vf how does stating a country as western and Eastern imply superiority or inferiority?
@@haseen5286If you are asking this question then I would guess you read the book by Shashi Tharoor - Inglorious Empire.
Russia been sanction since 1991 either fully or partial but their economy still growing so the answer is No
😂😂😂😂 ruzzian economy is not growing but collapsing. You can trust ruzzian statistics but then you believe all fairytales too.
And if GNP is growing because country is putting 50% of budget to manufacture arms, it's not creating any wealth buy povert
С 2014 года
@@barkin94нет, гораздо раньше
I doubt the Westerners will succeed in bringing down the Russian military effort
Let's wait till F-16 will start flying over Ukraine..
Of course not, western governments are inept at dealing with competitors but very adept at screwing over their own citizens.
HOW do you think India is paying for 600% increases in their import of Russian Oil ???
WHATEVER Russia needs.
Well you can always sanction China. Its not like Europe isnt dependant on China right😂.
germany's automanufacturing almost fell apart from the american forced sanctions on russia and plenty of companies are actually moving to china😅 france is also selling oil to china in yuan now
Everything in my cell phone is from China. Lol😅
@@aves8560 China invented money, you better ask China's permission next time you buy anything
@@vlhc4642 The talk was about the cell phone.
@@gustorel3041 You can google things invented by Russia, you know...)
@@gustorel3041 Do you buy cell phones with money?
@@artemg9753 I know. Russia milked billy goat and also had an excellent botanist - Ivan Vladimirovich Micurin. :)
And you also have the biggest dwarves and the fastest watches. :)
Both interesting and funny how Russia is firstly shown as something far away from the western world and then how much content the news channels are getting on these topics 😂.
I love these segments of comedy... 🤣
even if they want military equipment you would be amazed at what is openly available at any of those arms bazaars...and most companies will help you with any red tape you may have.
These quacking ducks do not understand that the market does not know any moral and ethical categories. Demand creates supply
Are these sanctions legal under international law?
nobody can put sanctions in technology that is very open and you can get this microprocessors 28nm up from multiples sources
I am sure russian and chinese rare materials are used to manufacture those ics. Palladium, neon, germanium, galium etc. Qhybdont you report on that?😂, Your reporting is not complete
This is peak comedy😂. They catching up after 18 months
Its weird that say Western like Russia isn't in Europe lmao and as if they could distinguish St. Petersburg and Paris from a generic photo.
It's easy to distinguish St. Petersburg and Paris, one is clean and safe the other one is trashy
True. Paris is very dirty.
@@danstrick3314right Paris is a mess
Frodo Zelensky and the Necromancer Biden, what a pair of "leaders" 😂😂🤣
One cant walk and gets lost every minute, the other is a comedian that sent more young people to their death than any other, great pair of villains!
What would you do if your country was being invaded? Just sit back and let the invaders take everything?
How bad is Putin then if he keeps getting shut down by these 2? That's the problem insulting your enemies while losing a war. You are losing to whatever insult you give them.
@@shane5898 How is he getting shut down when he got half of Africa under his alliance?! 🤣
@@shane5898niger just kicked you out. All sahel region is out of hand😂😂
You spelled Putin wrong. How it's coming that Russia increased the age of draft to 30 if they have no losses? Everything is going according to plan, right? The big ass explosion yesterday was also planned by big brain Putin? 🤡
I mean, Chinese semi-conductor companies would pray for US and EU to just ban all oversea sales, and leave the market to them. And with that kinds of profit, they can support heavy R&D, give them a few years, and we will have amazing chips designed and made in China.
Big kudos for 🇨🇳 China for conducting an independent foreign policy and refusing to follow the illegal "international" sanctions imposed by the Collective West without the mandate of the UN Security Council and not endorsed by the absolute majority of countries.
We both in one boat
3:39 Did she born yesterday? 10:30 Lalaland. when you don't make anything anymore, you can't sanction anything
US sanction chips on China. China sanction US on rare earth and rare metal. US 😭😭😭😭😭
War is Money We know it,they know It...!
You could probably find hundreds of thousands of things that could be from the West the Russia is benefiting from.
Everything that Russia is benefiting from came from the West, all technologies, art, culture, religion, ideology, even it's own statehood.
Most things that Russia benefits from even to this day is from the west.
Whether it wants to admit it or not..
And your point is?
@@snoopysnoops007 You mean Arabic translations of Ancient Greece texts?
@@XOPOIIIObruh, 1-10 Arabic numerals
Last I checked China is not a western country, and they produced more laptops and phones than any county.
Speaking of 65 nm process semiconductor fabrication, which is 2005 technology, and looks like it's the best what Russia possess. Anyway, anybody know how to use slide logarithmic ruler? People used to send rockets to the Moon with it.. ;)
End sanctions, negotiate for peace in Ukraine
😂Great investigation 🔎 👏 👍
Let's see what happens as time goes on .................
Money doesn't smell
It's not the Western tech if it's made in China :D
should I say this is the revitalization of Soviet tech? they are under sanction, you know. Their nation is the first to go to space, which require semiconductor technology.
maybe all the headquarters in USA but the production still in china 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What gives Nato and USA the moral high ground when they produced this war and are still pushing for more weapons into Ukraine to prolong it.. Instead to seek peace and end the killing and destruction. Its not the micro chips that are the problem and not more sanctions that will solve the problem.
Russia has invaded Ukraine and Ukraine is just resisting this aggression. War can end very quickly if Putin pulls the invaders back into Russia.
As long as the US is donating them I’m ok. Sanctions are still making things more difficult. Countries still have to make money, especially if they are donating everything to Ukraine for free.
its a mighty shovel chip not the western made😂
Only European countries and USA is allowed to bomb other countries😅
Russia is repurposing Western microchips and other advanced technologies in its military equipment, including missiles, radios, drones, and armored vehicles, according to an analysis by Damien Spleeters. More than 58 pieces of critical Russian military equipment recovered from Ukraine's battlefield contained around 1,000 foreign components, primarily Western semiconductor technologies. The sanctions evasion and avoidance are surprisingly brazen, with some companies having ironic names such as Heavenly Mechanics. Elina Ribakova, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said the findings expose Russia's continued access to Western tech imports. Two-thirds of the foreign components identified ultimately originated from US companies, with others from Japan and Germany. Sanctions on Moscow are largely limited to Western allies. Russia imported $2.5bn worth of semiconductor technologies in 2022, up from $1.8bn in 2021. The dependence on imported high-tech technologies is an old one, with the Russian military and civilian economy becoming dependent on readily available global technologies, both hardware and software.
Just dont forget war its all bout business 😂
Since September 2003 North Korea has sent 6700 full of ammunition and in total 10000 containers with military equipment (all kind) to Russia. I think this answers the question!!! China, Iran not included in these numbers. Plenty of Russian equipment located in Syria goes back home as well!! Vietnam also helps them.
China is sending them all the chips they need.
Russia turned to stone age 😂
That equipment was manufacture before sanction hahaha
Ouch! An Open Society Foundation Alumni and IMF employee from Latvia. Jesus Christ, CNBC! Nice reporting, I guess...
Yeah, it's all joke, this and other things we don't even think of, sad.
"western technology" 😆
Swift victory to the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 Z 🇷🇺 Z 🇷🇺 Z 🇷🇺
It's been a year and a half and you are losing badly. Swift is out of the question and wining is looking like that's improbable now too.
@@shane5898 Losing badly? Dont know about you, but the Russian Federation GAINED territory since the start of the war. Also those sanctions fucked EU way more than they did Russia. You said Russia will go bankrupt in 3 months, what happened?
@@shane5898In war its not about Speed Phase.. its about Better Tactics , More Money( Logistics ) and better Weapons.. Your comment is Immature ..😂
@Miguelbamboo how's this for better tactics, Russia has given up so much ground in the last 2 months that Ukraine is now in range to hit Moscow. They did so 3 times last week and it's only going to get worse as Russia continues to get wrecked in the field giving up even more land.
@spicesmuggler2452 if Russia gained ground how is that Ukraine is now in range to hit Moscow? They couldn't do that 2 months ago before the offensive. Now look, Moscow has been hit 3 times in a week. Your Russian media is lying to you. But even it can't deny Russia got hit in Moscow and you know why? Because Russia has lost a ton of ground and still losing more daily.
Western tech but you not making any microchips🤔
Taiwan
Thinking themselves wise ;they became fools
How it's a western technology...all countries contributed in different form in the development of chip technology.
Lol why should other country listen to usa anyway! they are not bound to support Ukraine
All western semiconductors should have a doomsday circuit that can disable the semiconductor if it gets into the wrong hands.
Intel has that but to spy on its user
And how will you turn it on mr big brain 😂 Do you think they could not disable it hmm?
all it would take is one person finding such technology and suddenly your sales evaporate.. this is the kind of thing we're talking about when we say that your generation isnt going to make it...
It's embedded in the circuit. They simply wouldn't know how to turn it off. Access would be encrypted microcode. As long as it's connected to a network, it can be triggered via a IC driver update on a delay timer, so that sufficient time is allowed for global driver updates on the majority of semiconductors can be set in initiation phase. From there on it can simply trigger based on a timed interval or even random time range progressively disabling the ICs. it could be temporarily or permanently set. Only the IC manufacturer could access it and control it. Control could be made multi layered secure, including via another IC that's not released publicly and forms part of the multi layered encryption key system.
@@JoeyBlogs007 bro you realise there are jammers, and Russia has the best on the market yes? Xd
Ruzzia is exporting liquid natural gas from Siberia through north by using special ships which can go through ice. Those ship are having special azipod propeller systems made by ABB. ABB is still making service and maintenance to those, and supplies spare parts. If ABB stops that support, ruzzia can not export that gas at all because no other company can make maintenance and supply spare parts. It's almost same as with Airbus and Boeing planes.
ABB should be banned for that service
That is why NATO is very cautious about giving Ukraine western weapon aid, because it can easily end up in Russian hands.
russia already stole everything that could be stolen from cyberattacks. (they can't produce some of the highest tech stuff yet due to manufacturing not being taylored for some of it, and china is already doing that)
the point is the usa doesn't want to esclate while prolonging the war as long as possible.
Russia will certainly lose the war, if they are using cheap Chinese analog radios like the baofeng UV 5r shown here😄. As for other tech, you don't need anything cutting edge to guide bombs and such. Arduino microcontrollers, and SBC like raspberry pi's have more than enough off the shelf power to do that.
If you seriously think Russia will lose this war then you are brainwashed by the mainstream media. There is a 0% chance Russia loses this war. Remember this comment once the war ends.
Also why you need cutting edge radio when Russia has the best radio and radar jammers on the market?! Youre a NPC that parrots msm narratives 😂
Chinese data radios in Mavic drones are stream 1080p videos from 10 km away and Russia hauls them directly from Shenzhen in military transports...
@@vlhc4642 yes true, but both Russia and Ukraine use cheap unencrypted analog radios for communications on the battlefield. we have all seen news reports of them using radios like the Baofeng UV 5r and uv82. these radios are easy to listen to on any scanner and SDR and a not even military rated. but as for the data transmitters on Mavic drones and other such drones, yes, that's a problem.
Yeah , they get it from Afghanistan….
Remember oatmeal brain left it there ❔❔❔❔
Oh 😱
Putin said recently that Russia is going to be self-sufficient in a couple of years. The EU and the US will lose a lot of profit. A lot of companies are willing to sell products to Russia regardless of the sanction. It's profit folks. Pretty soon they will lose that profit. Russia has developed lithography tools to make 7nm chips. Russia will be a manufacturing hub in Europe in about 4 years. Putin said that Europe need Russia more than they needs the US. IMHO it is apparently true.
Self sufficiency requires 3 essential steps
1 reforming the educational system
2 decreasing the percentage of corruption
3 integrating high skilled workers from other countries
Russia, hating on the West, but uses Western tech.
Russia's not the one running half a trillion $ trade deficit with the country they want to go to war with, lol
The West hates Russia but uses the periodic table, hates China but uses gunpowder, and so on...
Are you 10 years old?)
They use western tech to bomb western. Interesting !
Yeah they sent western chip back to Ukraine including Free BIG Explosive warhead and rocket engine.
Nice !!!!
I've never seen a more misinformation as well as misleading video.
The policy should be: 1) take one proven case of importing something big or important (eg. airplane parts). 2) announce sanctions against (a) country which let it happen, or (b) bank which performed the payments, or (c) the company that arranged it all.
Putting up sanctions against entire countries may be too severe, and governments there may be unable to control actions of unscrupulous importers. Case (c) is also not effective, as such transactions are likely done via ghost companies just created for this purpose a week prior and disbanded after. But case (b) - punishing unscrupulous banks - is very doable and effective. Setting up “ ghost banks” is not easy, so real, established banks are used. Banks know what such transactions are for ( totals are in millions of dollars ), and the mechanism is simple and reliable - cut them off from SWIFT, or impose penalties on their transactions.
And yes - Swiss banks - get ready. Aiding Russia has to stop!
China does it openly and there's nothing anyone can do about it
China has 32% of the global manufacturing capabilities and 19% of the global economy
Nobody will risk the biggest economic crisis in history because of Russia sanctions
Business is business. American business need Russian market and Russia need American market . Easy
The report is just stupid, in 90th Russia decided to use western components exactly because they were easily available, today it's easy to replace them, because they are not even close to cutting edge semiconductor technology.
Cutting edge semiconductors are manufactured in Taiwan but China is working on replacing them in the market
😂. Чуток потерпите пока в России отладят производство микроэлектроники с полным замкнутым цыклом тогда можно и трубу перекрыть .
😂😂
It’s called Capitalism
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣......
Sanction ? For russia its nothing , realy ....
You Americans have been using Russian Sikorsky helicopters, Zvorykin television, Ufimtsev's "stealth" technology, etc. for many years. So don't whine and pay!))
We know Winnie is secretly supporting Pootin military technologies. That's why we MUST STOP CHIP technology to Winnie at ALL COST. Here now and FOREVER. Together, we can win!
Useless .......
Go down west
😅😅
US woke media should focus only on its LGBTQ >> XYZ only ... haha
Africa material 😅lo Taiwan chip
Actually 76% of all rare earth minerals needed for chips are mined in China
Update your vlog. Its already obsolete. Social media is your worst source. It will make your vlog so amateur and hyperbolic. Just saying.
You would like to destroy Russia but it seems to me that most of the World will destroy your arrogance.
Russians are way more clever than those trying to encircle them with NATO troops, military bases and offensive military hardware. 😂😂😂
Sanctions put on Russia are a joke. You're not sanctioning a country and allowing trade with it at the same time. China wouldn't make sacrifices, they could easily agree to ban trade with Russia, if they have just a slight motivation.
Why would China obey the USA? China has been sanctioned by the USA long before Russia did. China and the USA are currently in a chip war. They are fighting for dominance in the chip-making industry
China will do that only if Taiwan gets reunited with the mainland 😂
@@spicesmuggler2452 Obviously that is what they want, but they would likely to agree to much lesser guarantees. They don't need Russia at all, even if Russia repeats the fate of USSR, China will be the first to benefit.
@@snoopysnoops007 I mean China needs it's major trading partners more than it needs it's minor trading partners. By Russia I mean it's government, not the wast territories and resources that China obviously needs and eager to grab.
Hoping China will help you is like if Germany hoped Americans will help them to fight the Soviets in WW2...
Xi and Putin literally announced together they're building a new world order, China wants you dead as much as Russia does, the best you can get is China saving you face by not openly advertising the stuff they're sending Russia.
What are you all talking about here? 99.9% of chips are made in China. What is the problem with chips in China, and therefore in Russia?
Dream on fools. Money will get you anything. 🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🤒🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺👍👍👍🇷🇺👍🇷🇺👍🇷🇺