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Posted on 02/23/2023 3:16:53 PM PST by marcusmaximus
The U.S. and Germany have warned China not to deliver weapons to Russia. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, however, Beijing and Moscow are said to be negotiating the purchase of 100 strike drones, which could be delivered as soon as April.
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A Warhead up to 50 Kilograms in Weight
the Russian military is engaged in negotiations with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi'an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology over the mass production of kamikaze drones for Russia. The revelations create a new urgency in the debate over possible Chinese military support for Russia.
Bingo has reportedly agreed to manufacture and test 100 ZT-180 prototype drones before delivering them to the Russian Defense Ministry by April 2023. Military experts believe the ZT-180 is capable of carrying a 35- to 50 kilogram warhead.
Sources believe that the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle could be similar to that of Iran's Shaheed 136 kamikaze drone.
Plans for Falsified Shipping Papers
In a further step, Bingo reportedly plans to deliver components and know-how to Russia so that the country can produce around 100 drones a month on its own.
China apparently already had plans last year to provide the Russian military with much more substantial support than previously known. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, companies under the control of China's People's Liberation Army had planned to deliver replacement parts for Russia's SU-27 fighter jets and other models.
DER SPIEGEL has learned in its reporting that plans had apparently already been made to falsify shipping documents to make the parts for military aircraft appear to be replacement parts for civilian aviation.
Microchips Made in the Netherlands
In January, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported that Dutch microchips had been delivered to the Russian defense industry via Chinese companies.
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A lot cheaper than a tank.
Yeah! Only we are allowed to sell weapons into war zones!
Hurr-durr! Hurr-durr!!
I suspect that XI's people will clean their noses out in Balloon-Pants Blinken's general direction.
What goes around comes around. If it’s fair for us to provide weapons, it’s fair for China. Perhaps we’d been better off staying out of Ukrain.
Toy poodle Germany had better bark like the Big Dog US tells it to, or the US and Norway will blow up Olaf’s brand-new LNG regasification terminals...
How stupid. False shipping documents..... China shares a border with Russia. Just drive them across!
“Noooo, you can’t send lethal aid, only we’re allowed to do that!”
That kind of arrogance you want to spite. It’s human nature.
Let me guess the costs of weapons. A sidewinder missile to shoot down one of 3 weather balloons in 2023: $400,000.
A chengdu pterodactyl I unmanned aerial vehicle costs $800,000. A T-90AM tank from Russia costs $4.25 million. Yes drones are cheaper than tanks.
So now Russia is a supplicant nation. Speaking of Third World!
Speaking of supplicants:
The JoeTatoe and his boy "Short Pants" Blinken had to beg permission from the RuZZians for The Tater to go kiss the ring of The Piano Boy in Kiev...
At least that target is located within our borders. 
Stop rooting for Communist China.
Biden in 2 years has delivered at least 6 weapons aid packages to Taiwan, the most recent almost $200 million including Harpoon missiles.
A group of US Congress just left Taiwan and is demanding more.
What stupid hypocrites we must seem to China, telling them to whom they can’t do weapons aid
I'm America First, you yapping little Globalist.
China is none of our business.
To be precise, we're giving them away.
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