Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that almost all Russian drones are supplied by China.
At a meeting of the State Duma's Committee on Budget and Taxation, Siluanov reportedly thanked China for its cooperation with Russia, but urged Russia to strive to develop "its own resource base."
Today, almost all drones come from China. "We are also grateful to our partners for this. But we need to develop our own resource base, and the necessary funds have already been allocated. ”
The statement paints a clearer picture of the growing partnership between Russia and China since the start of the war in Ukraine, though Siluanov did not say whether military drones were involved.
Siluanov's remarks at Monday's meeting came before he announced that Russia had allocated 6$1.6 billion for "a new national project to develop our own drone base," adding that Russia's "goal is to have 41% of drones labeled 'Made in Russia' by 2025." ”
For nearly 20 months, the Russia-Ukraine war has spurred the development of drones on both sides, as unmanned aerial vehicles (U**) continue to play a key role in combat.
Russia has long relied on Iranian-made Shahed-131 and 136 drones in its invasion of Ukraine, and the British Ministry of Defense assessed in June that Russia is beginning to produce its own drones domestically, "almost certainly with Iranian help." ”
As previously reported by the New York Times, China, one of the world's major drone exporters, imposed new restrictions on the export of large drones and related drone components in early September, resulting in several Ukrainian drone companies not being able to obtain **.
According to the New York Times, before the restrictions, Ukrainian drone manufacturers bought drones worth $200,000 from Chinese companies between January and June.
According to The New York Times, during the same period, Russia bought drones worth $14.5 million from Chinese companies.
However, the official Russian newspaper Kommersant previously reported that China's export restrictions also "seriously complicate" the issue of deliveries of drones to Moscow.
The White House has repeatedly warned Chinese companies not to help Russia develop drone technology. In September, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced new restrictions on 11 Chinese companies and five Russian companies, saying they provide drone equipment for Russia's war operations, Reuters reported.
Judging from the reports of ** in recent years, Chinese unmanned aircraft have rarely been unpopular in the world. Saudi Arabia once spent a lot of money to buy a certain model of unmanned aircraft from China.
How strong are Chinese drones? The Chinese drone used in Saudi Arabia lost contact contact with the base during the tests due to the operator's error. However, the plane itself returned after 30 minutes.
The performance attracted the attention of other countries. China has received many orders for unmanned aircraft.
8% of the global civilian UAV market is made by DJI**, after the United States imposed tariffs, the market share in the United States climbed from 72 to 85% of China's intelligent manufacturing, when the US Department of Defense explicitly banned the purchase of DJI UAVs, the US Air Force did not "resist" the purchase of 35 units.
DJI drones have always taken North America and Europe as their main battlefields, and there have also been successful cases of sniping other opponents, DJI Phantom3 successfully passed the ** battle, directly forcing back and even letting the opponent 3D Robtics give up the drone market, worthy of the king of the drone market.
DJI drones are also favored by the American billionaire Bill Gates, which is a close cooperation between DJI and Apple mobile phones, and it is this cooperation that allows Bill Gates to have excellent products such as DJI drones, and at the same time, Bill Gates bought an Apple mobile phone in order to use DJI drones.
For example, the Chinese Feihong 901 cruise missile, which uses a fixed-wing and cylindrical fuselage, has a length of 12 meters, a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour, a range of 15 kilometers, can be in the air for a long endurance cruise of 120 minutes, performance exceeds the American "Switchblade", Feihong 901 can use a high-explosive armor-piercing warhead, can penetrate 100mm of armor, can penetrate the top armor of the main battle tank.
The Feihong 901 UAV is launched through a launch box and is ready for combat operations in 3 minutes. Due to the fact that it carries an advanced optoelectronic probe, it is possible to directly attack enemy targets in the form of imaging.
It can also launch a large number of Feihong 901 cruise missiles for precision strikes, using swarm UAV tactics, multiple cruise missiles synchronous operation, and hit targets in a large area, as early as 2020, China used the Feihong swarm for the first combat test.
The high-end model of the Feihong UAV is the FH-97 UAV, which is a new generation of high-speed stealth multi-purpose UAV system, using intelligent skin perception technology and distributed photoelectric aperture detection system, with a combat radius of 1000 kilometers and can be on standby in the target area for 6 hours.
The FH-97 can detect ground-to-air targets through the integrated situational awareness system, and then release the cruise missiles in the internal bomb bay, which can independently form a network formation after being dropped, form an attack swarm, and carry out multi-domain three-dimensional precision sabotage strikes on the target.
In fact, China has a smaller "cruise missile", that is, the Rainbow 817 miniature attack drone, with a total weight of only 850 grams, shaped like a thermos cup soaked in wolfberry, pulled up and down, the rotor is exposed, equipped with a high-explosive warhead and a low-altitude camera. The battery life is 15 minutes. It can be used alone, or it can be carried by large drones or manned aircraft to carry out airdrops.
The U.S. Global Hawk drone cost $200 million, and the assassination and assassination are always carried out at the same time, and the U.S. Global Hawk was shot down, which also led to direct economic losses.
DJI drones are originally civilian, but also involved in agricultural plant protection tasks, but also in film shooting, remote sensing mapping. Widely used in other fields.
The same DJI drone has suffered from the neck of international chip companies, which makes it extremely difficult to engage in self-developed chip research under the epidemic, and the breakthrough application of the fourth axis allows DJI drones to reach 7With a stroke of 5 cm, the "stride jitter" also disappears with the upgrade of technology.
It's just that some countries have converted it to military or other uses, which has affected the United States' global domination, but DJI drones have magically escaped hunting again and again, and are loved by Americans and consortia.
This is a case of Made in China once again winning glory for the country with soft power, adhering to the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and technology, and firmly believing that talents are the primary productive forces in the 21st century, which is the confidence of DJI drones to fly higher and higher.
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