Chinese engines powering Russian drones

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DirtBag 23 Jul @ 6:08pm

THE CHINA PROBLEM

Chinese-made engines are being covertly shipped via front companies to a state-owned drone manufacturer in Russia, labelled as "industrial refrigeration units" to avoid detection in the wake of Western sanctions, according to three European security officials and documents reviewed by Reuters.

The shipments have allowed Russian weapons-maker IEMZ Kupol to increase its production of the Garpiya-A1 attack drone, despite the U.S. and E.U. sanctions imposed in October designed to disrupt its supply chain, according to the sources and documents, which included contracts, invoices and customs paperwork.

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MinionJoe 23 Jul @ 6:17pm

I thought the use of incendiary devices was against the Geneva Convention.

Or has China figured out how to make an engine that doesn't spontaneously combust?

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careering 23 Jul @ 6:18pm

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DirtBag 23 Jul @ 6:21pm

Originally posted by MinionJoe:
I thought the use of incindiary devices was against the Geneva Convention.

Or has China figured out how to make an engine that doesn't spontaneously combust?

Duel-use I suppose

Immortalis 23 Jul @ 10:14pm

And?

China hasn’t agreed to the EU sanctions (where are we at, by the way? Is it the 20th sanctions packet that will “finally destroy the Russian economy in a week”?).
The EU lacks the political will to take on China.
They ignore issues that are of much greater importance, human right violation, China being a one party dictatorship, disregard for international law in matters regarding copyright and trademarks etc etc

What are they going to do now? Sanction China and prove that Trump was right all along?
Yeah, didn’t think so

DirtBag 23 Jul @ 10:33pm

Originally posted by Immortalis:
And?

China hasn’t agreed to the EU sanctions (where are we at, by the way? Is it the 20th sanctions packet that will “finally destroy the Russian economy in a week”?).
The EU lacks the political will to take on China.
They ignore issues that are of much greater importance, human right violation, China being a one party dictatorship, disregard for international law in matters regarding copyright and trademarks etc etc

What are they going to do now? Sanction China and prove that Trump was right all along?
Yeah, didn’t think so

The EU supports Ukraine against Russia but China and Russia are allies, yet the EU continues to play nice with china because it doesn't want to hurt the CCPs feelings.

The whole thing is insane, we gotta be living in one of the strangest parallel universes out there.

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