Russian weapons still depends on the supply of Western components - Bloomberg

The internal inspection of the Russian government showed that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation could not replace the western parts for the defense industry, which led to a shortage of modern weapons. Russia's long -standing attempts to reduce the dependence on the imports of Western components and technologies for their own defense industry have failed even before the sanctions blocked access to them. About it reports the American edition Bloomberg.

According to journalists, in 2019 the Russian Federation made a program of reduction of dependence on Western components by 2025. It was assumed that import substitution would affect different types of weapons: from radars to modern submarines and missile defense systems. However, the internal check of the plan 10 months before Putin's invasion of Ukraine showed that it did not meet almost all parameters.

European officials familiar with the Russian Government's audit report said that the State Defense Program Program may fail in the conditions of rigid sanctions regime. Thus, information about Russia's problems with the supply of components was transferred to a number of Western governments and was used in discussing trade sanctions imposed since late February.

American and European politicians say that due to the lack of modern weapons, Russia is forced to use Soviet weapons, which is less accurate and unreliable. In addition, despite the threats of Vladimir Putin to continue the escalation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are unlikely to withstand massive missile attacks by the territory of Ukraine, which were observed on October 10-11.

Russia is already trying hard to replenish the reserves of living power, suffered great losses in tanks, planes and burns its rocket arsenal. One European official said that further degradation of Russian equipment and its armed forces is expected. Some of the most modern weapons of Russia depends on foreign components. These are winged rockets, TU-22 bombers, submarines, Nudol air defense and anti-aircraft radars.

The check also showed that attempts to replace Ukrainian components in 2020 did not bring success for Russia. In addition, almost 100 contracts concluded with Russian research institutes for the development of domestic details after the annexation of Crimea were detained.

"The dependence on the Western components will not stop the Russian military machine, but will significantly slow down the pace with which Russia will be able to restore military power," - said Silhart Kausal, an employee of the Royal Institute of Joint Arms. We will remind, on October 11 special services of Britain reported that in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are exhausted ammunition. In addition, expenses in the Russian army in human resources and weapons are "stunning".