NAZK has launched a single open database of foreign equipment used by Russia to produce its own weapons – a special reference site “Instruments of War” is already available as a separate section of the site at this link.

It’s no secret that despite numerous sanctions, Russia has access to Western technologies and components. Moreover, in the second year of a full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia is ramping up the production of its own weapons, which are killing Ukrainians and destroying entire cities. An unprecedented number of sanctions, unfortunately, does not prevent Russian terrorists from continuing to receive the necessary foreign equipment and spare parts for the production of missiles. Unfortunately, a large number of Western companies continue to work in Russia, support the economy of the aggressor country and the production of weapons, not to mention the loopholes and complex schemes that allow bypassing sanctions. Just today, the EU Council approved the 13th package of sanctions against Russia, and the US announced the introduction of more than 500 new sanctions.

The goal of the new initiative is to create a single directory of foreign equipment used by Russia for the production of weapons.

*During the last 20 years, most of the Russian weapons were and continue to be produced on the machines of the countries of the sanctioning coalition and their allies, since usually the aggressors themselves do not have the necessary experience, expertise, logistical and technological support.

South Korean and Japanese-German machines are used by a Russian factory that manufactures missiles for the S-300 and S-400 air defense systems that regularly fire at Kharkiv. And Czech machines work at the Watkins plant in the Russian Federation, which produces Iskander-M ballistic missiles and Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles.

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More than 270 units of various foreign equipment have already been published in the new module “Instruments of War” – according to the National Security Agency, there are no such open directories in the world. With the help of filters, in a few clicks you can find detailed information about foreign equipment that Russian and other military enterprises use for the production of weapons and military equipment.

• brands of foreign equipment that still make their way to Russia;
• models of individual machines and their technical characteristics;
• sanctioned Russian manufacturers using foreign equipment, as well as their lethal products.

The new module complements the unified base of foreign components in weapons, which NAZK launched earlier. It should strengthen export controls by international partners and help track the supply chains of dual-use and military goods to prevent Russia and other sanctioned regimes from using high-precision foreign equipment to produce their own weapons.

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