Ukraine cannot compete with Russia in war machinery, but it has proposed discover the secret of drones with artificial intelligence that flood your sky every day and night. The kyiv army has now analyzed a tank, and has found a huge surprise inside.
Ukrainian troops have managed to replicate Russian combat drones or intercept hidden messages from Moscow’s army in the past, but The real surprise is in the origin of the components of technology.
China plays a fundamental role in the design of the war machinery used by the Russian army, but Western technology is beginning to be decisive. The Kremlin has discovered a way to import components bypassing international restrictions, NVIDIA is now present in drones, tanks or fighter planes.
A single tank manufacturer in Russia and Western technology
Russian tanks have been a mystery for Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict. Ukrainian soldiers have intercepted some units analyzing them piece by piece, but The interior of the armored vehicles remained a secret kept under lock and key.
Ukraine has confirmed what was beginning to be an open secret, not even Russia is free from the foreign dependence to manufacture their armored vehicles. Ukrainian intelligence has discovered that combat tanks are packed with Western and Asian technology that highlights the Kremlin’s industrial self-sufficiency.
Uralvagonzavod is the only major tank manufacturer currently in Russia. The Russian army would use more than 260 high-precision machines that come from its plant in the Urals, including the T-series range with the veteran T-72 to the new T-14 Armata.
The Russian army includes Western material in most of its equipmentfrom American vertical lathes to German machining centers and Italian presses. The Kremlin has preempted the sanctions that have been imposed during the Ukraine war.
Russia has preempted international sanctions
The country has designed a secret plan long before invading Ukraine. Russia has made million-dollar purchases fifteen years before before the conflict begins with military modernization prior to international sanctions.
Ukraine has drawn up a list in which it lists the origin of the material that Russia uses to produce its tanks, it aims to raise awareness among Western manufacturers. Austria, Japan, South Korea and China are behind 42 types of equipment distributed among 169 factories linked to the invasion and are used in a total of 1,396 war machines.
Uralvagonzavod has become the heart of Russian armor capability with a production between 20 and 30 tanks per month. The company has inaugurated an engine plant equipped with European CNC machines, although the first problems are beginning to arise.
Russia manages to get around the restrictions by importing from collaborating countries, but it is not enough. Deliveries are increasingly expensive, Western teams do not have spare parts or software updates, tank production risks aging rapidly.