{"id":1827290,"date":"2023-01-28T11:19:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827290"},"modified":"2023-01-28T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T16:23:17","slug":"russia-is-attacking-ukraine-using-u-s-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-is-attacking-ukraine-using-u-s-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Is Attacking Ukraine Using U.S. Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-is-attacking-ukraine-using-u-s-electronics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<h2 class=\"title-alt-01\"><span class=\"font-color-01\">JUST IN &#8211; How Russia Uses U.S. Electronics To Attack Ukraine<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-main-img\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/-\/media\/sites\/magazine\/2023\/01\/russia2016-487.jpg?h=500&#038;w=878&#038;la=en&#038;hash=A3DBBA38E85A47EF31049CF6210DABB8\" alt=\"\"   style=\"display:none\"><br \/>\n                                    <span>Russian rocket launcher<\/span>\n                            <\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">Vitaly V. Kushmin photo via Wiki Commons<\/p>\n<p>                            <strong>WASHINGTON, D.C. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. sanctions and export controls are intended to prevent rivals from obtaining semiconductors and other sensitive electronics, yet dozens of weapon systems Russia has deployed against Ukraine are loaded with \u2014 and can\u2019t function without \u2014 U.S. and Western electronics, according to a U.K. think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Radars, electronic warfare technology, missiles and guidance systems \u2014 even secure communications devices \u2014 are among the 27 different systems Russia has used in Ukraine found to contain western electronics, Jack Watling, a fellow with the Royal United Services Institute, or RUSI, said during a Jan. 26 presentation at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, D.C.  <\/p>\n<p>Watling was present in Ukraine during the initial days of the war. He met with a general from Ukraine who gave him a salvaged computer case from a Russian 9M727 ballistic missile. \u201cAnd as he went through the layers of chipboards, he started pointing out all of the chips that were manufactured in the United States, which was a very significant proportion of them,\u201d He said.  <\/p>\n<p>This was the beginning of the cataloging process for foreign components<strong> <\/strong>The think tank is found in Russian systems.<\/p>\n<p>One was the radar that would be used to detect a Russian air defence system, he stated. \u201cAs a military analyst, I had spent weeks trying to work out how to defeat these systems, only to realize that actually the critical components in them were not just Western made, but in many cases, export control components \u2014 components that we have been trying to prevent getting into Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that although many of the systems they analysed were older systems, some electronic components were newer than 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Russia has developed a robust \u2014 if sometimes deceptively simple \u2014 system of evading sanctions and illegally obtaining technology, panelists said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of our sanctions processes have been around attacking companies,\u201d Watling stated. \u201cBut the infrastructure is fundamentally built around people, not companies. It&#8217;s been built for a very long time. It&#8217;s been operating for a very long time. And we&#8217;re doing far less to degrade that infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Panelists said that Russian agents could make purchases in the United States and then ship the components to themselves at an address in the United States. Then, they would repackage the components and send them to Russia via intermediaries or shell companies.<\/p>\n<p>They discovered that Russia&#8217;s current method of circumventing export controls is a direct copy of the Soviet playbook from the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve actually identified a number of commonalities of these procurement networks, most notably the use of transshipment hubs to try to circumvent some of these export controls and sanctions were already in place prior to invasion, and now much more stringent following that,\u201d Gary Somerville (research fellow at RUSI), said the following:<\/p>\n<p>Russia can create modern weapons by using western electronics, but it comes with a cost, according to James Byrne (director of open-source intelligence analysis at RUSI). \u201cIt also introduces a critical vulnerability into their systems, which is: we have control over some of the ultimate technology in their supply chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, if the west can interdict the illicit supply chains, that can greatly diminish Russia\u2019s capability and its efforts to rearm as it blows through its weapons stocks, he said. He said that removing one type of chip could delay the production of a weapon, or missile by several months.<\/p>\n<p>That is no small task, given that RUSI\u2019s research turned up 450 microelectronics components in the Russian systems, and 81 of the components had export control numbers. The Russian weapons also contained Japanese capacitors, British oscillators, and Dutch pressure sensors. Additionally, Iranian weapons as well as most likely North Korean or Chinese weapons are full of Western electronics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think there have been definite successes in slowing these exports down,\u201d Byrne said. \u201cThere have been a range of people that have been indicted. There are a range of people that have been sanctioned, [and] have been pursued by the authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that agencies in the West are not well-resourced and still use legacy tracking systems.<\/p>\n<p>Somerville said that \u201cexport control is very reactive at the moment, and what we are [facing] here is an adversary who is proactively working their way around the gaps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the mechanisms that were created during the war against terror to share information between agencies and countries might make a difference. \u201cthat doesn&#8217;t really exist within the export control space,\u201d He concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists stated that there is a lot of open-source data RUSI and other organizations can use to track down the problem. They can purchase data sets that include shipping transactions, customs records, and corporate records. Artificial intelligence can then be used to identify evidence of criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, because there&#8217;s so much data out there it\u2019s just a question of fusing it and doing the analysis and turning the product out in a speedy timely way,\u201d Byrne said.<\/p>\n<p>Watling stated that the ideal solution is for covert intelligence agents to coordinate with open source centers to alert them to areas they should be monitoring so they can flag anomalies immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don&#8217;t need to reveal that there was some classified collection that that cued you on, but it means that in the ocean of open-source information, you can really rapidly build datasets that you can share,\u201d He said. This is how it works: When someone tries to purchase something, \u201cthe indicators and warnings come on, and the person can be blown before they succeed.\u201d<br class=\"t-last-br\" \/>\n                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                <strong class=\"font-color-01 font-size-02\">Topics:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={54D6C881-A1E6-42D1-BDF5-AE3949193734}\">Defense Department<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={D983C49A-4A50-473A-A7DB-4D1A95CBD020}\">Global Defense Market<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaldefensemagazine.org\/articles?Topic={807AFBE8-FE6F-45B3-B2A0-B7B9C7FD2E5A}\">International<\/a>\n                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUST IN &#8211; How Russia Uses U.S. Electronics To Attack Ukraine Russian rocket launcher Vitaly V. Kushmin photo via Wiki Commons WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. sanctions and export controls are intended to prevent rivals from obtaining semiconductors and other sensitive electronics, yet dozens of weapon systems Russia has deployed against Ukraine are loaded with \u2014 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[7280,16838,4280,7238,6991],"class_list":["post-1827290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-attacking","tag-electronics","tag-russia","tag-u-s","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}