I am going to ask for proof for a much better engine. Because that is what T-90M has not T-90A. What T-90A received was an engine whose parts sourced entirely in Russia not former Soviet Union states. The improvement in performance was negligible.
The War in the Ukraine
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Anything with guns to the front ! That's a nice rig ! Someone know the designation of the tracked vehicule ?
T-90A got a V92S engine with 1000hp to replace the existing V84 it inherited from the T-72B family
Also the whole T-90AM was the initial designation for the tank when development start, it would evolve into T-90MS and then finally stick with T-90M and the MS designation just being used for export tanks.
Ukraine says it is finding more Chinese components in Russian weapons
LONDON/FRANKFURT, April 14 (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces are finding a growing number of components from China in Russian weapons used in Ukraine, a senior adviser in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's office told Reuters, as Western supplies are squeezed by sanctions.
In "the weapons recovered from the battlefield we continue to find different electronics," said Vladyslav Vlasiuk, who advises the president's chief of staff on sanctions policy.
"The trend is now that there is less Western-made components but more – not hard (to) guess which country – made components. Of course, China," he said via a video call.
China has repeatedly denied sending military equipment to Russia since Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The assault triggered Western sanctions, including on sending military and dual-use technology such as microchips that could be used in either ordinary appliances or weapons.
Intelligence gathered by Ukrainian experts from the battlefield and shared with Reuters stated that Chinese-made components were found in a navigation system in Orlan aerial drones that had previously used a Swiss system.
The experts also reported finding Chinese parts in the fire control system in Russian tanks that had earlier used French-made parts.
Reuters could not independently verify the intelligence, including whether the components mentioned may have been intended for non-military use or whether they were moved to Russia by a third party.
"We're picking (up) a lot of different stuff, China made," Vlasiuk said.
Asked whether Chinese companies had provided parts for Russian military hardware, China's foreign ministry spokesperson's office told Reuters: "Throughout history, China has launched normal trade cooperation with all countries, including Russia, on the basis of equality and mutual benefit."
"As for military item exports, China has throughout adopted a prudent and responsible attitude. China's position and actions have always been this way."
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Vlasiuk said that Ukraine was able to identify some manufacturers or suppliers and share that information with Western allies.
He named China North Industries Group (Norinco), a Chinese weapons maker, as one supplier and military supplier Xinxing Guangzhou Import & Export Co as another, without saying what they had supplied.
A member of staff at Norinco, who declined to give their name, said the company was "not providing military equipment components to Russia".
Xinxing Guangzhou Import & Export Co did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Russia's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken last month said China had not "crossed that line" yet of supplying Russia with lethal aid.
However, U.S. officials are watching developments closely and are concerned, in particular, by so-called dual-use products, such as electronics that can be used in, say, a microwave or a missile.
"We and our partner governments are relentlessly focused on restricting Russia's access to key technologies that fuel its brutality in Ukraine," said a senior State Department official. "We will continue to take action to degrade Putin’s war machine."
Earlier this week, the U.S. added Chinese companies to its latest sanctions, including a satellite image reseller that the State Department said supplied imagery of locations in Ukraine to entities affiliated with Wagner and its head, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
China, which has positioned itself as a mediator, has said it is not interested in inflaming the conflict as it says Western arms supplies to Ukraine do.
Ukraine has imposed sanctions on the Chinese company Comnav Technology for supplying navigation and radar equipment to Russia that could be used to support Russian and Iranian drones and missiles. A Comnav staff member, asked whether it was supplying components to Russia said, "No, of course not". The staff member declined to be named.
Vlasiuk described an "ongoing battle" first to impose sanctions on Russia and then to close loop-holes Moscow would find to avoid them.
"We see that there a lot of examples of third countries continuing, willingly or not, to support sanctions circumvention," he said.
It’s an ATS-59 artillery tractor. Surprised they have them in reserve at all, let alone in working condition.
No such thing as sanctions circumvention as there are no international sanctions on Russia. No word from UN nor from Beijing itself.
It is the internal affairs of the west if they want to give up their market shares in Russia to China. Beijing would be stupid to interfere in something that helps them.
This is an opportunity but also a challenge to rise to the occasion. Russia will be the first major developed country besides China itself that will run nearly fully on Chinese brands, from the most mundane household to luxury. It'll be very interesting to see how the markets of Moscow or St Petersburg will be 3-5 years later.
He is retarded if he thinks the Russians cannot make their own sensors to put into a couple hundred, or at worst thousand of tanks.
It would be problematic to manufacture thermal sensors for all the drones and all the wheeled vehicles. But the Russians can certainly make enough Irbis-K thermals by NPO Orion to put into the tanks and aircraft if they wanted to. The Russians have plenty of fabs which can make these sensors. These typically use older fabrication processes.
The Russian military does not use a component which they cannot source inside Russia. Something does not get designed in unless there is a Russian analogue of the chip or component. This has been the case at least since 2014 when the West started sanctions on sales of military equipment to Russia. Ukraine retardedly insists on applying Western sanctions on sales of military grade semiconductors to Russia, but Russia have already been under sanctions since 2014.
For example the Russians made a 90nm version of Elbrus2K at Mikron called Elbrus-2SM just so they could use it in the Su-57. They could not put it in if there wasn't a source for it inside Russia. But it was much cheaper for them to make those chips at TSMC. They likely have tens of thousands or more of such TSMC Elbrus2K chips stockpiled. Because you typically don't order small runs of chips at a foundry. But they will likely use the TSMC made chips while they have them in stock.
It would be problematic to manufacture thermal sensors for all the drones and all the wheeled vehicles. But the Russians can certainly make enough Irbis-K thermals by NPO Orion to put into the tanks and aircraft if they wanted to. The Russians have plenty of fabs which can make these sensors. These typically use older fabrication processes.
The Russian military does not use a component which they cannot source inside Russia. Something does not get designed in unless there is a Russian analogue of the chip or component. This has been the case at least since 2014 when the West started sanctions on sales of military equipment to Russia. Ukraine retardedly insists on applying Western sanctions on sales of military grade semiconductors to Russia, but Russia have already been under sanctions since 2014.
For example the Russians made a 90nm version of Elbrus2K at Mikron called Elbrus-2SM just so they could use it in the Su-57. They could not put it in if there wasn't a source for it inside Russia. But it was much cheaper for them to make those chips at TSMC. They likely have tens of thousands or more of such TSMC Elbrus2K chips stockpiled. Because you typically don't order small runs of chips at a foundry. But they will likely use the TSMC made chips while they have them in stock.
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The so called infrared sensor found in T-90 was a civilian device produced by GaoDe. There is no way China can enforce what Russians do with them, just like there is no way China could stop Ukraine from weaponizing DJIs, Autels, etc.
Of course the Ukrainians and NATO won't complain when Ukraine buy boatloads of drones from China.
Complaining about China is like complaining to Godzilla that you're blocking the street.
Is Autel Robotics part of the same Autel that makes car diagnostics tablets?