The US authorities find out how the chips of the production of American companies were installed on Russian military equipment and equipment used in the war in Ukraine. This was reported with reference to the sources of The Washington Post.
According to The Washington Post, the investigation is conducted by the US Trade and FBI. Representatives of the departments find out American companies how the electronics they produced to the Russian military -industrial complex, taking into account the current export restrictions.
“Our goal is to try to track this to an American supplier. How it got into these weapons systems,” an unnamed representative of the Ministry of Education told the publication.
“The fact that the company’s chip is found in the arms system does not mean that we started an investigation into this company. However, we started an investigation of how the chip of this company got into this system,” the official added.
According to The Washington Post, investigators from different countries identified Western electronics in Russian equipment and military equipment found in Ukraine. As the newspaper said in the CONFLICT ARMAMAMENT Research (CAR), which monitors the supply of weapons and ammunition in the military zone, most of this electronics was made before the United States has tightened export control against the Russian Federation in 2014, but some parts were Made no earlier than 2020. CAR employees who visited Ukraine last month claim that they discovered in the Russian technique found there and communications components of 70 companies based in the USA and Europe.
In 2014, explains the publication, the US authorities expanded the list of microcircuits, for the sale of which manufacturers should receive the appropriate license of the Ministry of Trade to the end military users in the Russian Federation. After the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, the United States and a number of other countries banned the sale of chips to representatives of the Russian military -industrial complex.