RogerdeLluria
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- Jul 5, 2015
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Russian source:According to Russian Twitter feeds, Russian Major General Sergei Goryachev, Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army was killed on 12 June by a missile attack by Ukrainian forces.
I think this is the highest ranking Russian officer to be killed in the conflict to date. If so, one can assume he wasn't alone and that other senior officers and key HQ staff were also killed or wounded.
We had quite a run of Russian generals being taken out last year. One can only hope for a repeat in 2023.
Fine, thanks. I'm not going to play armchair general - I've been reading the comments made by the real ones.How are them eye-rolls working out for you?
I found this quote interestingAnother thread on the effects of sanctions on the Russian Military industry.
View: https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1667544167705092097
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@ChrisO_wiki: 1/ Russian defence workers say they are facing a chronic shortage of electronic components, leading to them reusing old components, 'cannibalising' them from other devices and increasingly using unreli...…threadreaderapp.com
Sanctions work !!!
Honestly, that surprised me a lot too. 40% is too much even for Chinese. I have a feeling that something got lost in translation.I found this quote interesting
12/ Accoridng to the Russian state-run newspaper Kommersant, the proportion of defective chips and components from China has increased from 2% to 40% in 2022.
That is a shocking failure rate.
Sounds like someone in Beijing wants Russia to fail.I found this quote interesting
12/ Accoridng to the Russian state-run newspaper Kommersant, the proportion of defective chips and components from China has increased from 2% to 40% in 2022.
That is a shocking failure rate.
Possibly a case of send them anything even if it doesn't work properly.Honestly, that surprised me a lot too. 40% is too much even for Chinese. I have a feeling that something got lost in translation.
Probably the original was something like:
The proportion of Chinese origin chips and components (that have a higher rate of defects) has increased from 2% to 40% in 2022.
If you need it bad, we can make it bad.Possibly a case of send them anything even if it doesn't work properly.
Even the best fabricators (Taiwan and USA) only get a rate of less than 10% perfect function in CPU production. These
CPU's go for a premium and are in the highest end computers. The rest may have slight problems with throttling due to
resistance etc right through to being as slow as a wet week for whatever reason. They get cheaper as the quality goes
down.
In the nineties RAM chips that didn't fully work would be sold to manufacturers to put in calculators - a 64K chip in a calc
that only needed 8 to work was a good way to get rid of stuff that wasn't quite there. As time went on these cheaper types
were sold as fully functional even though they weren't. That's why the same amount from one company would cost us $150.00
where the 'cheaper' stuff was as little as $20.00.
China has a small piece of the pie as it is costly to keep up to date and requires expertise. Sending defective chips to Russia isn't
going to lower any reputations as the rest of the world doesn't mind if Russia gets crappy stuff and China is trying to get any
sales they can at the moment. That could be why the defective percentage has gone up.
In Bulgarian (which is similar to Russian), "брак" (brak) does mean "marriage" or "matrimony", but it can also mean "union" or "waste", depending on the contex.Original sentence in Russian:
После начала военных действий на Украине, по их словам, доля брака увеличилась с 2% до 40%.
I wonder if the Ukrainians are going to make a move on the Donetsk Oblast? So far this region has been mostly untouched by Ukraine, presumably because it's more urban and heavily populated with separatists, having been in Russian hands since 2014. This region will likely be the hardest to crack.More on the second dam explosion...but from Ukrainian sources. Still haven't seen any wider reporting of this event:
Occupiers blow up dam in Donetsk Oblast, causing flooding
The Russian occupiers blew up a dam on the Mokri Yaly River in Donetsk Oblast, causing flooding on both sides of the river.www.pravda.com.ua
The Chinese are notorious for selling counterfeit everything. A few years ago a UK TV correspondent got into some trouble because he appeared on camera and said that everything he was wearing was designer gear, but counterfeit. The car he was driving was visually identical to a BMW X5 but was counterfeit, the Apple laptop he had bought was counterfeit and the whole store behind him that looked like a western Apple store, was fake.The Chinese are notorious for selling counterfeit semiconductors; they have been doing that for years. Beware of any public figures about wafer yields. That is a closely held secret in any semiconductor company. It is the measure of success or failure. ex-Burr-Brown Corp & Texas Instruments
The weaker a post war Russia is, the more stuff China will be able to sell them (or have influence over them)…Sounds like someone in Beijing wants Russia to fail.
More:More Bradley for Ukrainia
Ukraine Situation Report: U.S. Sending More Bradleys
The Ukrainians have lost at least 16 Bradleys so far, but there will soon be more on the way under the latest U.S. aid package.www.thedrive.com