The Telegraph: Putin Would Have No Chance Against The West

Russia is being completely defeated.

Thirty-three months into Russia’s war against Ukraine, sanctions on Russian industry are finally having a noticeable impact on the Kremlin’s modernisation efforts. Russian aircraft manufacturer United Aircraft Corporation is struggling to secure critical foreign-made components for the Russian Air Force’s Su-57 fighter jet.

Russia is being completely defeated. The way it sources components for its weapons points to unresolved problems in its weapons supply chain that its enemies could exploit to further weaken its armed forces, reports David Axe in The Telegraph (translated by Zerkalo Nedeli).

The correspondent notes that sanctions mean Russia cannot directly import components, including microchips and circuit boards that are part of the MPPU-50 device developed in Germany to calibrate the radar of the Russian Su-57 fighter jet. With Germany banning supplies of the device, Russia is forced to seek alternative ways of obtaining the necessary components.

According to documents obtained by the Ukrainian analytical group Frontelligence Insight, Russia has successfully found ways to circumvent sanctions, since banned components can be easily bought online and delivered to Russia via third countries. The Americans are obviously aware of this problem, since on October 30, the United States imposed new sanctions on 400 companies, including some in China and India.

Axe claims that the efforts that Russian managers must make to find chips and boards lead to a slowdown in the production of Su-57 fighters and an increase in the price of one jet launch.

On the one hand, it is clear that foreign sanctions aimed at the United Aircraft Corporation and other Russian arms manufacturers do not work perfectly. But they work well enough to at least slow down the modernization of the Russian Air Force.

Important to note, on June 8, 2024, a Su-57 multirole fighter was hit at the Akhtubinsk airfield in the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation, for the first time in history. The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported this on its website. The Russian Aerospace Forces are armed with no more than two dozen such aircraft, of which no more than 10 are in service.

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