How western microchips keep Russia's missiles and drones flying

Kyiv is under relentless fire. Ukraine says Russia fired over 100 ballistic missiles in just two weeks. And the weapons raining down are built with American chips. A Ukrainian analysis of Putin's newest killer drone reveals 76% of its component comes from U.S. firms, raising fresh questions about how Western electronics reach Russian weapons despite sanctions. Well, watch this next report to get more details on this. Night after night, the same terror repeats. Ukrainians are enduring a nightmare. Over the past fortnight alone, Russia has unleashed more than 100 ballistic missiles against the Ukrainian capital and surrounding regions. Explosions shake apartment blocks. Anti-aircraft batteries ignite the clouds. Besides the missiles, Russia has been increasingly using jet-powered drones. Among them are the newer Geran-2 drones, which fly higher and faster than the others. This makes them significantly harder to intercept. Ukraine has managed to down several of these drones using its own interceptor drones and even fighter jets. Now beneath the smoke of falling wreckage lies an unsettling revelation. Ukrainian engineers, by dismantling the flight computer of a downed Russian Geran strike drone, found something startling. According to reports, out of 105 identified micro-components driving the lethal drone, 80 trace directly back to American tech companies. That represents over 76% of the drone's brain. More than 60 of those integrated circuits belong to Texas Instruments. and its subsidiary alone not a single critical processing unit inside the guidance cluster bears a Russian mark this is no isolated incident western intel reports have said that russia's precision strikes depend almost entirely on western tech pipelines according to reports russia builds its formidable Iskander and Kinzhal cruise missiles around american micro electronics german industrial tools and chinese routing pathways sanctions have made procurement harder but they have not eliminated russia's access to foreign electronics moscow has sought alternative suppliers and import routes while investigators have urged governments to close the loopholes and pursue covert procurement networks Bureau report we on world is one