WHAT. THE. FUCK:
Russians were using off-the-shelf components made by TRC, a company in Taiwan, to convert their dumb bombs into precision glide bombs, procured through 3rd parties, but ran into problems. The Taiwanese fixed the issues & sell direct now.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/taiwanese-company-produces-drives-for-umpk-by-order-of-russia/
Russians were using off-the-shelf components made by TRC, a company in Taiwan, to convert their dumb bombs into precision glide bombs, procured through 3rd parties, but ran into problems. The Taiwanese fixed the issues & sell direct now.
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/taiwanese-company-produces-drives-for-umpk-by-order-of-russia/
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But then there's the salvage market. Junk, returns, and theft go far to satisfy chip hunger.
Russian soldiers are not stealing appliances to send home to mama.
Ok, let them be eaten by China then!
TRC servo drivers are manufactured in China. No relevance to TRC in Taiwan.
- a book by China
1. The company's name is missing. So it's hard to say who TRC is.
2. This company was paid in Yuan. What's the point of paying them in Yuan when the company is supposed to be Taiwanese? Taiwan -> New Taiwan Dollar, China -> Yuan.
TRC servo drivers which are manufactured in China. This is extremely poor investigative reporting. TRC in Taiwan do not have the capability to even make servo drivers.
As for grey import it is almost impossible, unless all countries agreed to heavily penalise companies with grey import
https://som.yale.edu/story/2022/over-1000-companies-have-curtailed-operations-russia-some-remain
"Chinese companies that supply the 🇷🇺Russian Federation with servo drives for UMPK planning modules and Shahed UAVs are illegally using the name of the Taiwanese company TRC to avoid sanctions."
https://mil.in.ua/uk/news/kompaniyi-knr-pidrobyly-brend-tajvanskoyi-kompaniyi-shhob-ne-potrapyty-pid-sanktsiyi/