“Vladimir Putin’s experimental Oreshnik missile, launched against Ukraine last month, was manufactured by Russian companies that still depend on modern Western production equipment.”, — write: epravda.com.ua
Vladimir Putin’s experimental Oreshnik missile, launched against Ukraine last month, was manufactured by Russian companies that still depend on modern Western production equipment. The Financial Times writes about it. Two of Russia’s leading weapons development institutes, named by Ukrainian intelligence as the developers of the Oreshnyka missile, are actively seeking workers with skills in metalworking systems created by German and Japanese companies. Advertisements for vacancies at the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering and the Sozvezdiye Institute, discovered by Financial Times journalists, demonstrate that the Kremlin’s military machine is still critically dependent on foreign technologies that are subject to Western sanctions. systems numerical control (CNC), which are key to the production of “Oreshnyk”. This technology allows factories to process materials quickly and precisely thanks to computer control of tools. Putin presented the use of this land-based missile, which analysts believe to be a modified version of the RS-26 Rubezh, a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that has been tested but not put into production, as a response to Ukraine’s allies’ permission to use modern Western weapons for strikes on targets on the territory of Russia. “We have a stockpile of such products, a stockpile of such systems, ready to be used,” Putin warned after the strike on the Dnipro plant, which used to be a top-secret Soviet missile factory.Advertisement: MITT, one of the companies Ukrainian intelligence has named as involved in development of “Oreshnyk”, is the leading one institute for the development of Russian solid-fuel ballistic missiles. In its job ads published in 2024, the company notes: “We use FANUC, SIEMENS, HAIDENHEIN systems.” Fanuc is a Japanese company, while the other two are German. All three manufacturers create control systems for high-precision numerically controlled (CNC) machines. The same three Western companies are mentioned in the announcements of the Sozvezdiye institute, which listed among its specializations “automated control systems and communication systems” for military purposes. The vacancies state the requirement “knowledge of CNC systems — Fanuc, Siemens, Haidenhain [sic]A video released earlier this year by Titan Barricades, the third defense company involved in the production of the Oreshnik, also shows a worker standing in front of a device with the Fanuc logo. Russia has long been dependent on imported metalworking equipment, despite efforts regarding the creation of its own alternatives Although the Kremlin purchases significant volumes of high-precision metalworking equipment from China, the control systems for this equipment continue to be supplied from the West vacancies even show that “Stan”, the company that leads Russia’s attempts to create a domestic CNC industry, uses Heidenhain equipment. Stopping the supply of CNC controllers and machines to Russia is a priority for Kyiv’s allies. CNC devices and their components are part of the so-called “common of the list of high-priority goods”, the supply of which they especially seek to limit for Moscow. We will remind: According to the Air Force, during the missile attack on the city of Dnipro On November 21, the Russian Federation launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. “UP” sources reported that it could be a “Rubezh” missile, which is a potential carrier of a nuclear charge. In an address on November 21, the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, actually confirmed the US data, saying that during the morning attack on the Dnipro, the Russians used the Oreshnik medium-range missile. The United States officially confirmed that Russia struck the Dnipro on the morning of November 21 with a ballistic missile that was based on the RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile.