70
Russian missiles used in Kyiv attack contained over 100 Western components, FT says
(www.pravda.com.ua)
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
70 points (100.0% liked)
World News
544 readers
695 users here now
Rules:
Be a decent person.
No racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, zionism/nazism, and so on.
Other Great Communities:
Rules
Be excellent to each other
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
The reality is slightly more complicated, but not a whole lot
Reality is like that.