This is an urban myth.
It first appeared in April and in it's original incarnation had nothing to do with Russia https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-21/chip-starved-firms-are-scavenging-silicon-from-washing-machines?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=copy
Everyone with any knowledge of the semiconductor industry laughed it off. A few months later it was retold but this time it was Russia taking the ICs out to make missiles. It reminds me of NK and Iraq "buying Playstation 2 consoles to make missile guidance systems" and super-computers.
There was indeed an increase in exports of washing machines etc to Russia's neighbouring countries. There are mundane explanations.
How long does it take the opposing counter battery barrage to arrive? Fascinating stuff from an engineering perspective!
Just remembered briefly covering radar during HND EE at college years back, I don't remember being asked to work out artillery locations using missile trajectory in a 3D space.
So get me the Cartesian co-ordinates of that Orc missile battery! 😎
I didn't know that washing machines used missile technology!
A ceasefire in return for weapons supply being stopped is a no no for Ukraine ... Only a Russian withdrawal would be considered
It gives the spin to the missile in mid air ....
Lol.
More like Scholz is tied up and authorised the flight. Where Roldugin is tying up loose ends before the court takes Putin's millions.
Lol
They don't, but Orc missiles use washing machine technology.
U.S.-led sanctions are forcing Russia to use computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in some military equipment, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday.
“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,” Raimondo told a Senate hearing, noting that she recently met with Ukraine’s prime minister.
Eh, aren't the US and UK already training Ukrainian pilots on Western Fighters?
Depending on the systems the other forces have in place I could be between 3-5 minutes before shells start hitting your position,
With the HiMars or the Archer from Sweden that's heading to Ukraine 6- 10 shots under 2 minutes and already have left the area you fired from
The latest Russian menace
If this leak is true, really shows that Putin got carried away with how the situation would unfold
Russian President Vladimir Putin hoped that the invasion of Ukraine in February of last year would bring NATO to heel and result in a no-fly zone declared over Poland and the Baltic states, leaked documents from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) show.
The leaked documents come from a source known as Wind of Change and were reportedly sent to Russian human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin, The Sun reported.
Putin imagined that after the invasion of Ukraine, an ultimatum would be issued to the West to accept Russia’s occupation of the country and that a no-fly zone would be declared over Poland and the Baltic states.
After that, Russia’s “nuclear triad” of land, air and submarine “would be activated”, leading to the “withdrawal of several countries from NATO” and possibly the European Union, the source said. It added that many Western countries would be so terrified that they would even accept rocket attacks on Poland or the Baltic countries.
All of this would cause a “fundamental collapse of the West within the time allotted (by Putin) after the ultimatum was issued”. Putin expected Western countries to issue “separate appeals to Russia that they are not conducting aggressive actions against Russia and are not part of the possible war”.
At the end of the day, Russia would regain power comparable to the former Soviet Union, which would allow Russia to take political control of a number of countries that were part of the USSR, whereas NATO as an integral structure would cease to exist.
“It’s pretty plausible” Putin had such plans before he started the war in Ukraine, Keir Giles, a Russia expert at the foreign policy think-tank Chatham House, quoted by The Sun, has said.
“One of the reasons why Putin’s invasion of Ukraine took so many in the West by surprise was because it made no sense – unless you were within Putin’s mind,” he added.
@Dohnjoe how wrong was he ,
And to think people are still spouting nonsense about Ukraine and the West turning down a political solution last year,
Putin was going to invade no matter what anyone else said .
No .
Currently Two Ukrainian pilots are getting simulator time to evaluate whether going forward Ukrainian pilots will be suitable for future training,
There is plans to train some pilots in the UK only the UK has already said they won't be sending them aircraft,
No real point training a pilot or pilots for aircraft they may never actually get to fly .
That's the kind of nonsense that would come from the mind of a third rate KGB agent with severe notion sickness and not a shrewd world leader.
Checks out.
That's absolutely bonkers. If any of that is true then he was getting high on his own supply. Main-lining those crazy talk shows.
He's old, has ultimate power and locked himself away in a bunker for fear of covid.
It's not like we don't have a long history of absolute dictators going off their rocker!
British defense and security think-tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) conducted forensic analysis on a selection of Russian weapons captured in Ukraine, and published a report on the use of Western components in them: https://static.rusi.org/RUSI-Silicon-Lifeline-final-updated-web_1.pdf
An excerpt:
A total of 14 components originated from Netherlands-based manufacturers, of which 10 came from NXP Semiconductors as well as two from its former subsidiary Nexperia. Despite the low number of components in the total dataset, NXP components were present in 10 of the 27 systems analysed. Most prevalent were pressure sensors, such as the MPXV5004DP, MPXV5010DP and MPXV5010GP, which were found in the flight controllers of the KUB-BLA, the Orlan-10 and the E95M UAVs
The data sheets for the MPXV5004DP, MPXV5010DP and MPXV5010GP pressure sensors specifically mention their use in washing machines: https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/MPX5010.pdf https://datasheet.ciiva.com/26929/mpxv5004dp-26929478.pdf
From this evidence alone, it's not possible to say that Russia are scavenging such sensors from washing machines, but it's clear that some of their weapons and some washing machines do share identical components.
Hang on now...
If we're going to go down that road, why not also listen to what The Sunday Sport has to offer:
Captain Mainwaring's auld shovel & Bazooka launcher! 🤣
Looks like all those washing machine pressure sensors are out of stock at electronic suppliers Farnell & Mouser?
Of course the chips used in domestic consumer equipment can perform many tasks, the spec sheets always have examples included. Although I don't have a clue about military equipment, it's certainly more than likely that those chips can be used in weapons manufacturing, with some quick tweaks of the circuitry using simulation software & even old fashioned breadboarding!
MPXV5010GP Spec sheet details.
Application Examples • Hospital Beds • HVAC • Respiratory Systems • Process Control • Washing Machine Water Level Measurement (Reference AN1950) • Ideally Suited for Microprocessor or Microcontroller-Based Systems • Appliance Liquid Level and Pressure Measurement
For the price of a single washing machine you can buy 10,000 of these pressure sensors. They're tiny and can be smuggled in large numbers via the postal system, in the boot of a car, in a backback. One dude could fly to China and bring back thousands in his hand luggage.
Russia have up to 600 "ghost ships" smuggling crude oil and other exports around the world. They can evade sanctions in their sleep, because (quelle surprise) a nation of crooks are good at doing crook stuff. But somehow they can't smuggle 1 cent sensors, so they have to buy washing machines instead... If you believe that I have some magic beans to sell you.
orc scum executing an unarmed soldier because he said something they didn't like.
Some people just aren't very good at planning for the future and thinking ahead.
For frck sake thats an image I did not need in my head ever….
Horrific
I think the only relevant information is that they're using consumer grade parts. And consumer grade parts can be easily obtained and shipped to Russia from a number of countries in the Eastern Europe and Asia. So no, they aren't stealing washing machines from Ukraine to be scavenged for parts, they are stealing them because that's the kind of people they are.
Unfortunately, a few days ago I saw a video of Ukrainians doing the same thing to a surrendering Wagner, lying on his stomach and hands behind his head. He was asked a question, the gunman didn't like his reply and fired about the same number of rounds into his head.
Unfortunately the majority of comments were along the lines of the Geneva convention not applying to mercenaries, so it was OK. That clip of yours shows just why it's not OK, based on the principle of do unto others...
I wonder what the "two sides to every story" brigade make of that. Just waiting on a "fake news" rant
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