Fear Belarusian chips in Russian missiles more than American ones – Kyiv aviation expert

Thanks to Belarus and despite sanctions, the Russian military-industrial complex quickly managed to establish production of high-precision weapons.

This was stated by Anatoly Khrapchinsky, deputy director of a Ukrainian company producing electronic warfare equipment, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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"The Russian military-industrial complex flourished between 2007 and 2010, when they freely purchased French avionics for their Sukhoi fighters, bought Intel chips, and installed them in their cruise missiles . This allowed them to significantly improve the technical characteristics of these weapons," the expert said.

According to him, when anti-Russian sanctions were introduced in 2014, the Belarusian company Integral actively began purchasing microchip production machines.

"Belarus has now resumed production of electronics, which is used by the majority of Russia's military-industrial complex. Over the past 25 years, if I'm not mistaken, Belarus has shipped about 5 million chips to Russia . These are chips for radio altimeters, Sukhoi aircraft, navigation, avionics, and even for X-101 cruise missiles. Therefore, they were able to restore their capabilities, even despite these sanctions.

“That’s why when they tell me there are American components in Russian missiles, I say: be more afraid of Belarusian and Russian components than American ones ,” Khrapchinsky said.