Ukrainian drones have new targets in Russia. In addition to military and energy infrastructure facilities, they began to hit electronics factories.
On August 30, one of the drones attacked the largest microelectronics manufacturer in Russia, the Kremniy EL company in the Bryansk region. According to the telegram channel Baza, the drone strike led to a fire in an area of 40 square meters. m in the 16th building of the plant.
On the morning of September 1, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported on a drone shot down in Lyubertsy, Moscow region. However, according to Andrey Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the drone reached its target and hit an electronics production plant.
“Sobyanin lied – their air defense didn’t shoot down anything. There is a fire in Lyubertsy, at the Tomilinsky electronic plant. Russians use it to produce electronics for missiles,” RBC-Ukraine quotes Yusov as saying.
According to the publication, the operation was organized by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, but the department itself did not confirm its involvement in the incident. There is no other confirmation of this information, however, according to According to eyewitnesses, a powerful explosion was heard, after which smoke rose into the sky approximately in the area of the Tomilino Electronic Plant.
Russia uses electronic components to produce the missiles it uses to attack Ukraine. Most of the components—up to 81%—are produced in the United States, another 8% in Switzerland, and 3.5% each in Germany and Japan, the Ermak-McFaul group calculated in June.
So, for example, for the production of sea-based cruise missiles 3M-14 “Caliber” Russia uses at least 45 foreign components, and ballistic 9M723 and cruise missiles 9M728/9M729 from the Iskander complex are equipped with at least 15 and 32 types of foreign electronic components respectively. The Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missiles use no less than 48 foreign components.
The US, EU and other countries have banned the supply of electronics used for military purposes to Russia. As a result, Russia has built schemes to circumvent sanctions through third countries, but despite this, it has to rely on microcircuits with 40% of defects, the BBC wrote , citing Western officials. Against this background, according to them, the Russian military industry began to recall the technologies of the USSR for the production of missiles.
Source : MOSCOWTIMES
