インターネット調査室：　「Chinese-backed buyer of UK microchip plant made components found in Russian missiles」

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The  Telegraph: 14 Aug,2022

「Chinese-backed buyer of UK microchip plant made components found in Russian missiles」:　　ま、自然な成り行きでしょう。　中国政府は、そんなの関係ね～　と言うでしょうが。

A Kh-101 cruise missile recovered from a Ukrainian battlefield contained parts made by Nexperia, a tech business attempting to buy the Newport Wafer Fab factory in South Wales.

Kh-101ロシア巡航ミサイルにウェールズ製の半導体が見つかった。　ウクライナに一番反ロシア支援をしている皮肉。

at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), sparked immediate calls for the sale to be blocked on national security grounds.

イギリス、慌てて販売をブロック。

 “Today, with Nexperia’s plan to buy Newport Wafer Fab, it also shows why we need to defend our key strategic assets from those who could use them against us.”

だわね～。

Joe Byrne, a research fellow, said that missile engineers have been combing the world in search of “specific microelectronics for specific systems” vital for Russian weapon systems. The most advanced British, US and Japanese components are of special interest because of their high precision, he said.

日本は大したことかないと言いつつ、結局、結局日本の部品に興味津々
何だそれ状態。

Explaining how Russian spy agencies have set up secret networks of front companies to evade Western sanctions, Dr Salisbury said: “The products they are seeking often have both civil and military uses.

このあたり日本もどうなのよ～?

How Putin’s spies are stealing Western microchips to fuel the Kremlin war effort?

Across the West, dozens of low-profile businesses are buying microchips. Companies with innocuous names, apparently working for agricultural machine suppliers or in the factory chain of the car industry, are hoovering up the basic transistors and circuits that run the stuff of modern life.

輸入した、農業器具からの半導体の取り出し?　　本当にやっているとは思いませんでした。

Analysis indicates that third-country transshipment hubs and clandestine networks operated by Russia’s special services are now working to build new routes to secure access to Western microelectronics,” said the Royal United Services Institute think tank (Rusi) in a new report

これじゃ、きりがないかも?　ま、半導体の輸入も予見できていたはずなので、その対応はできていたということですか?

Around 450 chips of Western origin were discovered in a total of 27 spent missiles

ロシア製のミサイルに自分たちの部品が使われ、撃ち込まれたらそれこそたまったものではありませんね。

Whitehall is confident that current sanctions are working well, something reflected in the fact that the only British components found in Russian weapons so far have been very basic items.

基本、西側として今回の制裁は対外的に見てとりあえず成功していると考えているようです。

British officials are mapping out how Russia gets its hands on UK-origin components used in military equipment, with the aim of using future sanctions to shut down those procurement routes.

英国も制裁を強めるでしょうが、さてどこまで機能するかお手並み拝見と行きましょう。

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