🚀 Internal documents from the Khrunichev Centre – Russia's leading maker of space rockets – reveal plans to sharply expand production of the Angara launch vehicle – the rocket Russia uses solely to put military satellites into orbit.
🏭 The programme loses money and survives only on state subsidy. Russia's own factories are worn out, so Moscow is pouring billions into a new plant in Omsk – with hundreds of advanced machine tools lined up to equip it.
❗Much of that machinery – nearly a third of the plant's high-tech core – is Chinese, including whole categories barred from export to Russia under EU sanctions. Chinese firms are lined up to supply them anyway, while selling the same equipment into the very Western markets those sanctions were meant to protect.
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Russia's response to electronic warfare wasn't a single solution. It evolved along two major paths: fiber-optic drones and mesh networks. This thread summarizes Frontelligence Insight analysis based on OSINT data and a report by the Center for Defense Reforms. Thread🧵
🚨Russia declared the RS-28 Sarmat – its newest nuclear-armed ICBM – "on combat duty" in 2023. Internal defence-industry files obtained by Dallas Analytics tell a different story.
A strategic weapon called operational faster than its own factories could document, price or deliver it – by a Russian state that has shut off every external means of verifying the claim.
Sarmat's fielding is the story of a strategic programme defeated not by sanctions or engineering, but by its own bureaucracy.
🔍 Full investigation: https://t.co/r1mpiuRdpL