Posted on 05/13/2022 6:21:40 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Russia is having to use computer chips intended for home appliances to repair its military hardware due to the impact of US sanctions.
"We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it's filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators," commerce secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Committee on Appropriations.
Raimondo recently met with Ukrainian officials who told her that they found parts from refrigerators and commercial and industrial machines when searching captured or abandoned Russian tanks.
Raimondo told the committee that exports of US technology to Russia have fallen by just under 70% as a result of sanctions, the first of which were imposed in late February.
Russia's military hardware has long relied on technology made by the US or its allies, but US tech companies are now forbidden from exporting their products to Russia.
"Our approach was to deny Russia technology — technology that would cripple their ability to continue a military operation. And that is exactly what we are doing," Raimondo told the committee.
"Russia is struggling to replenish its military weapons and equipment. Russia's two major tank plants — Uralvagonzavod Corporation and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant — have halted work due to lack of foreign components," it said.
Last month, Ukrainian troops paraded what they said was a Russian drone that had been covered in duct tape and fitted with a generic plastic bottle top for a fuel cap.
In March, Ukrainian troops found what appeared to be Russian army bandages dating to 1978 discarded on a battlefield.
Speaking on Monday, the UK's defense secretary, Ben Wallace, said that wrecked Russian fighter jets were being found by Ukraine with rudimentary GPS receivers "taped to the dashboards" because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad.
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“We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it’s filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators,” commerce secretary Gina Raimondo told the Senate Committee on Appropriations.”
When I hear reports from Ukrainians, I stop reading right there.
So it seems the Russians may have fooled the US into spending billions (trillions?) on weapons and R&D to fight, what we thought was a modern, state of the art military that really didn’t exist.
So, Russian tanks are not much more than top-load dishwashers with tank threads?
ICs aren’t interchangeable. Wouldn’t using a new chip in any kind of equipment require a comprehensive redesign of the PCB it was being mounted to?
Uri! How do you get the turret out of spin cycle??? Nyet Nyet Nyet!
Really?.. the chip are made in China... that way we have Thousands of brand new car sitting in storage waiting for chips
I heard they are so bad off they are actually using potato chips in their drones!!!
MSM propaganda b.s.
Takes 2 hours for each shot, but the shells are shiny and clean.
How could anyone but a real expert look at a semiconductor, and tell that it came from a dishwasher or refrigerator?
Everyone is lying to us about everything. I suspect that’s the case here, too.
At least their tanks will be more cooler in the summer when the Ukes blow them up.
Look on the bright side. The Maytag repairman finally has something to do!
Serious discussion of most of the propaganda drivels posted by this OP is bad for your mental health.
That explains why, when they open the hatch on top of the tank, a little light comes on.
Is that why they were looting all the washing machines in Irpin?
Well, at least they will be clean and shiny..................
might be true but BI is as bad as AP.
Are questioning the official narrative? You must be a putinista!
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