Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Despite China's professed support for Russia, Russian drone-makers complain that Chinese companies are providing them with poor-quality, defective, overpriced components that are delivered late or not at all. They attribute it to China covertly seeking to weaken Russia. ⬇️

2/ Russian drone manufacturers are heavily dependent on imported Chinese components. According to research by the Yermak-@McFaul International Expert Group, 67% of the components in the Shahed-136/131, Lancet and Orlan-10 drones come from China.

3/ The 'Vostok Battalion' Telegram channel reports that Ukraine's recent successes in its Kursk offensive were aided by a previously unseen ability to evade enemy electronic warfare systems. The Russians say they themselves lack this ability due to problems with Chinese supplies:

4/ "After the operation undertaken by Ukraine, military analysts subjected all the features of Ukrainian tactics to a detailed analysis. Technical nuances were noted that provided Ukraine with an advantage.

5/ "For example, the frequency ranges of the UAVs used turned out to be outside the range of suppression by our electronic warfare – shifted, as analysts say.

6/ "This allowed the units going for a breakthrough to act more effectively than it could have been with equal competitive capabilities. And what provides these capabilities? Or who?

7/ "With your help, we participate in this technology race, and being a small division by the standards of state corporations, we strive to be as flexible as possible: we constantly monitor changes at the front and make adjustments to the equipment that we transfer to the front.

8/ "But the most powerful obstacle in this matter for us is our dear China. Recently, we finally received a batch of components in the "shifted" range - that is, different from the most common ones.

9/ "Almost the entire batch turned out to be defective, despite the fact that the products were not cheap.

10/ "Delivery times, payment terms, quality of deliveries, periodic bans on shipping certain types of goods - we can say that China honestly follows all Western guidelines in relation to us.

11/ "Ukraine, however, does not encounter such problems - no one prohibits China from trading with it goods of either dual or direct use.

12/ "It is wildly annoying to feel such dependence on such a "friend" who will only be glad of our weakening - to bargain for even more discounts on oil." /end

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