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Russia's Flying Wing Drone Downed in Ukraine Packed with Western Components

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As far as I can tell most or all of these parts are parts that are commonly stocked at the major electronics distributors such as Digikey and that anyone can buy with little or no checking other than that the shipping address is in one of the 180 or so countries they ship to.

It would be shocking if Russia couldn't fairly easily obtain them.

If you're in Russia, you can buy them from distributors in China or India instead and they'll ship them directly to you.

When I visited the Georgian mountains last year (Kazbegi area), on the way from Tbilisi we passed an endless column of trucks. They were parked on the side of the road, the drivers taking a rest before crossing into Russia.

Trade with Russias neighbours has increased noticeably since the start of the "sanctions", it is profitable to order western components in bulk, repackage them and send them off.

The sanctions need to be enforced for neighbouring countries as well. The new US government likely won't life a finger, but the current one still could, and europe also can have an impact if they get their act together.

I think the real WTF is how did Russia get a hold of real chips from Maxim when nobody else can?

(yeah yeah I know, the oughties called and want their joke back)

First prototype (and what was likely also shot down) has been flown on 2017, so at that time MAX22200 were still available. Getting Maxim today is difficult, but maybe buying unsold devkits and reusing chips from them would be easier than redesigning that electronic module which uses them. But it is a desperation move which I would be protesting against, even on consumer-grade electronics.

Are they difficult to get today? DigiKey says [1] they have almost 2000 ready to ship immediately.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/analog-devices-in...

Reminder that Western companies leaving from Russia has been a lie. A lie made more shameful by the politicians who daily condemn the war, while tolerating the complicit business of companies within their jurisdiction.

Stop buying anything from these companies, who refuse to stop doing business in Russia and the war will end within days: https://leave-russia.org/

Americans just have a lot of military tech they need to sell.

Itll be fascinating when china invades Taiwan and north korea into South and suddenly trump has to say no to other fqscists or to the military industrial complex.

Suddenly its notabout soldiers but suits peddling war goods.

2025 will be 2016 but with military intrests.

Yeeaah, have you tried to continue that thought? The lies ... of the politicians ... who are making all that money for themselves ... and their networks/voters? ... what's worse? Other nations going against you and your people or your own government selling you out as cannon fodder and temporary media sensation. Aaaw, sorry no third season, we moved on to another program.

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