Russia is resorting to putting computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in tanks due to US sanctions

https://www.businessinsider.com ^ | May 12, 2022 | Bill Bostock

[PMAS]

“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.

[The Louiswu]

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.

[adorno]

So, Russian tanks are not much more than top-load dishwashers with tank threads?

[skeeter]

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?

[z3n]

Uri! How do you get the turret out of spin cycle??? Nyet Nyet Nyet!

[tophat9000]

Really?.. the chip are made in China... that way we have Thousands of brand new car sitting in storage waiting for chips

[Sarcazmo]

I heard they are so bad off they are actually using potato chips in their drones!!!

[Ikeon]

MSM propaganda b.s.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Takes 2 hours for each shot, but the shells are shiny and clean.

[Leaning Right]

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.

[RedMonqey]

At least their tanks will be more cooler in the summer when the Ukes blow them up.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Look on the bright side. The Maytag repairman finally has something to do!

[larrytown]

ICs aren’t interchangeable.

Indeed - this story is more BS. Sanctions in February would have had zero effect on equipment that was already in the field for pete's sake.

[NorseViking]

Serious discussion of most of the propaganda drivels posted by this OP is bad for your mental health.

[GreenHornet]

Russia is resorting to putting computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators

That explains why, when they open the hatch on top of the tank, a little light comes on.

[lump in the melting pot]

Is that why they were looting all the washing machines in Irpin?

[Red Badger]

Well, at least they will be clean and shiny..................

[gibsonguy]

might be true but BI is as bad as AP.

[JoSixChip]

Are questioning the official narrative? You must be a putinista!