“Russian weapons developers recruited employees who know the equipment of Japan’s Fanuc and Germany’s Siemens and Heidenhain”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that on November 21, Russia struck the Dnieper with the Oreshnik missile. The launched ballistic missile was in “non-nuclear hypersonic equipment”, and not with a nuclear warhead. The representative of the US Department of Defense, Sabrina Singh, said during the briefing that “Oreshnik” was created on the basis of the Russian model of the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-26 “Rubizh”.
According to the publication, the Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering (MIT) and the Sozvezdie concern, which the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (GUR) considers to be the developers of Oreshnik, recruited employees who know the equipment of the Japanese Fanuc and the German Siemens and Heidenhain.
The Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering, which is the leading facility for the development of Russian solid-fuel ballistic missiles, indicated in announcements in 2024 that it uses metalworking systems from Fanuc, Siemens and Heidenhain. All three companies produce control systems for numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools. They were also mentioned in the announcements of the Sozvezdiye concern, the Financial Times claims.
The publication writes that the federal research and production center “Titan-Barricades” also participates in the production of Oreshnik. In a video posted earlier this year, the company showed an employee standing in front of equipment labeled Fanuc.
Putin claims that Russia has several ready-made Oreshnik missiles. Aviation expert Kostyantyn Kryvolap has doubts about the number of missiles declared by Putin. “If there are, then a maximum of two missiles, with a big stretch, maybe three. What they took out were the prototypes of the rockets that were intended to demonstrate the existence of such a rocket,” Kryvolap said.
Western experts call the Oreshnik missile incomplete.