Ukrainian War Developments

[subotai1]

You need volume and reliability if you want large number of drones and PGMs at your disposal. 2% sounds small but you are counting all the smartphone and cars and smart toaster smart microwave oven out there, then you realize 2% is absolutely huge

True. But in the 70's those chips were custom fabbed for specific applications. Most defense weapon system these days use COTS chips with a hardened, proprietary OS/controller logic (which requires skills to create also). The most secure and important systems though, are all custom. Either way, it all requires the manufacturing and tech base that Russia has very little of.

 

[Suetham]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497922980537585666

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497955143714684932

 

[enroger]

Smartphones are a good chunk of ICs capacity this days, while Samsung alone sells millions of smartphones with complicated SOCs, the military probably need 10000 CPUs units ( to build 500 drones).

Ok, at the end I don't have concrete number of Russian production capacity so I can't really hold my ground on this argument. Russia's apparent lack of drones and PGMs remains a mystery....

 

[yongpengsuen]

Ok, at the end I don't have concrete number of Russian production capacity so I can't really hold my ground on this argument. Russia's apparent lack of drones and PGMs remains a mystery....

Russia has plenty of Orlan type drones which don't require airfields.

 

[sferrin]

Ok, at the end I don't have concrete number of Russian production capacity so I can't really hold my ground on this argument. Russia's apparent lack of drones and PGMs remains a mystery....

Still wondering why we're not seeing clouds of Backfires dropping PGMs.

 

[Suetham]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497959140978794499

 

[james smith esq]

Why bother with all there things..
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Global south will survive!

Despite your egocentric biases, the world won’t end when yours does!

 

[solarz]

Before going through any of this one has to keep one thing in mind that Putin, like all dictators, has created an environment where telling him something he does not like is a risky proposition.

Ah yes, Russian elections = dictatorship.

Thanks for proving once again that China is on the right path.

 

[Suetham]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1497958993771249672

 

[Zichan]

Smartphones are a good chunk of ICs capacity this days, while Samsung alone sells millions of smartphones with complicated SOCs, the military probably need 10000 CPUs units ( to build 500 drones).

Modern radars of AESA architecture require very large number of ICs for signal amplification, filtering, AC/DC conversion, digital processing. Then there's precision guided munition, cruise missiles, anti-air missiles, etc with similar requirements. I've seen Russian AESA radar designs with American made Altera/Xilinx FPGA chips and Texas Instrument chips among others. This is the sort of technology that not even China is capable of replacing at the moment, at least not on the state-of-the-art level.