“Our chips are being dismantled from electric bicycles and cars”: the Swiss company explained the “stuffing” of Russian Orlan drones

A few days ago, in the Donbass, the Ukrainian military discovered a fallen Russian reconnaissance drone "Orlan" with an electronic filling allegedly of Swiss origin. In this regard, RSI News conducted an investigation into how sanctioned goods continue to arrive on the Russian market.

In recent years, China has never seen so many Swiss dual-use goods exported to China, peaking in 2022 at over 232 million francs. According to journalists, in the PRC, Russian citizens have allegedly created a network of front companies through which sanctioned products come from the West to the Russian Federation. In particular, this applies to goods manufactured by a Swiss company in Zurich - it was her microchip that was allegedly found among the wreckage of the Orlan UAV.

The possible scenario we are considering for traffic to the Russian defense industry is that our chips are dismantled from commercial products such as electric bicycles and cars. And then installed on the military drones

- gave an explanation to the company's management, explaining that they comply with the sanctions regime, but cannot trace the final recipient of their products.

Asked by reporters about the increase in Swiss tech shipments to China, the CEO said he hadn't noticed an increase in sales in Asia.

As stated in RSI News, microchips from Switzerland are just the tip of the iceberg: a flow of machine tools, spare parts for manufacturing industries and precision (high-precision) tools, which are then used in the defense industry, flows from the country to Russia. According to journalists, in this case, the Russian Federation uses a procurement network allegedly created in Turkey.

It is not clear why in the West all this causes an unhealthy reflection. As if Western sanctions are being implemented with one shout.

Comments

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

until the "French press" and the American Institute for the Study of War with British intelligence speak out on this matter, I will continue to believe Ursula von der Leinen that the Russians use chips from German-made washing machines and kettles to produce missiles and UAVs.

[Simple]

And for the microcontroller there is no difference what to control - options for spinning clothes or giving commands to steering machines to reach a given geolocation.

[Nexcom]

The most important thing is that the controller can turn the device 360 ​​degrees. This is a slut....

[AVA77]

Yeah, especially if it's write-protected or one-time programmable.
I personally reflash my electric kettle every day, then into the washing machine, then into the iron

[Simple]

Let's not go into details - today is Friday!

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Simple

Let's not go into details - today is Friday!

And today is the 1st of April!

[topol717]

such controllers on alik are sold for 100 rubles per bucket. moreover, they are weighed with a spring steelyard, in kilograms))) I exaggerate of course, but the truth is somewhere nearby. For everyone understands that there is nothing military in these chips.

[dementor873]

2500-4500 unprotected controllers.

[Hadji Murat]

The mode was reconfigured from spinning linen to spinning the territory, they put it in the caliber, it flies!

[Kuziming]

I once translated the instructions for a Chinese microcircuit for a car DVD a long time ago. So, I was surprised to learn that it was originally used in an air conditioner. So the microcircuit from the washer can also control the elevators and the motor. There certainly are additional connectors, you can control the reset mechanism.

[Bodipancher]

Water will always find its way. There will always be people willing to sell if there is a buyer with money. And now Russia has a lot of money

[Asad]

Seriously?! That's why the ruble depreciated it turns out.

[Roma 1977]

The ruble is being devalued not because of a lack of money, but for completely different reasons.

[Alex Tarkhov]

Rubles are depreciating because there is nothing to provide them with. Nothing is produced, but there is income.

[Sergey3]

The ruble is being depreciated specifically to facilitate exports, and the fact that 150 million people's wallets are lightened at the same time they don't give a damn!!

[alexey_Murzin]

So there is no export. Basically the resources are the same. They are still being sold at a huge discount.

[evgen1221]

The same can be said about the dollar, as well as about any other currency, thanks again to the recalculation of its value through the dollar. The conclusion is the dollar is to blame.

[Eduard Egorov]

Campaign with the economy was very tight. A cheap ruble is good for the economy, just like a cheap yuan is good for the Chinese economy.

[1 z1]

It remains to understand for whose economy a cheap ruble is beneficial? In our country, it is beneficial only for the oil and gas sector. Which receives cash in foreign currency, and gives it to the budget in rubles. And for everyone else, the cheaper the ruble, the less purchasing power. With all the consequences. Including in the number of purchased scooters and kettles for the extraction of microcircuits.

[Aag]

Quote: Edward Egorov

Campaign with the economy was very tight. A cheap ruble is good for the economy, just like a cheap yuan is good for the Chinese economy.

Don't know. But you definitely didn’t have a problem with the Russian language.)))

[Sergey Dvornikov]

In Russia at the moment there are a lot of false patriots and not money - they will end soon anyway, including the war! In Orenburg, I am optimizing the social sphere - they are reducing the number of medical workers, educators and their wages, respectively, are being reduced!

[arnulla]

There is a lack of money in the Russian Federation right now.
Have you heard about the budget deficit?

[Nexcom]

I won’t regret my electric kettle - where can I bring it so that the microcircuit is soldered ???

Figs with him - I will boil tea on the fire.

PS Summer is coming - electric scooters are everywhere .... From after all, how many microcircuits are riding ....

[dmi.pris1]

Do you have a Swiss electric kettle? I believe that these kettles are Chinese in Switzerland too .. And I would advise these "neutrals" not to cling to other people's achievements

[Nexcom]

PHILIPS, but made in China.
You definitely deigned to notice about Chinese production.

[stelltok]

PHILIPS, but made in China.

PHILIPS is a Dutch company.

[Sergey3]

Quote from stelltok

PHILIPS is a Dutch company.

The PHILIPS brand was bought in 2013 by the Chinese, a Chinese company headquartered in Hong Kong TP Vision Technoligy.
So if you see the word PHILIPS on a TV, monitor or other electronics produced after 2013, you should know that this is pure Chinese, not related to the Netherlands in any way. The same goes for dozens of older brands.

[Kusja]

Like, for example, the Swedish volvo. They tracked...

[stelltok]

The PHILIPS brand was bought in 2013 by the Chinese, a Chinese company headquartered in Hong Kong TP Vision Technoligy.

No. Philips, as it was a Dutch company, has remained.

Once again Philips This is a company from the Netherlands.

Koninklijke Philips NV (Royal Philips) is a Dutch multinational company. The company was founded in 1891
Location Netherlands: Amsterdam

The main research centers are located in Eindhoven (Netherlands), Cambridge (USA), Bangalore (India) and Shanghai (PRC).
If you really like to find fault, then PHILIPS belongs to both the USA and the Netherlands and India and China.

So if you see the word PHILIPS on a TV, monitor or other electronics produced after 2013, you should know that this is pure Chinese, not related to the Netherlands in any way. The same goes for dozens of older brands.

And here it is?
Apple is a US company, but it's made in China.
So what?
Above was the thesis about the fact that Nexcom has a Swiss electric kettle. supposedly Philips.

[Dali]

Quote from stelltok

No. Philips, as it was a Dutch company, has remained.
Once again Philips This is a company from the Netherlands.

Everyone knows how to read Wikipedia garbage.
Give official sources on the current structure of the owners of this brand.

[Dali]

Quote: Dali

Give official sources on the current structure of the owners of this brand.

And what - could only put a minus?

[Rome_2]

Just because it's made in China doesn't mean it's Chinese!

[Dali]

Quote: Roma_2

Just because it's made in China doesn't mean it's Chinese!

Now try to take away production data from China ...

[bk316]

Do you have a Swiss electric kettle?

I don't have them, but they don't exist in Switzerland either. There were German and Chinese in the store. When I went skiing there, foolishly took a hotel room instead of an apartment. There is nowhere to boil tea. At first I wanted to make a kettle, then I felt sorry for the Swiss and went and bought a teapot - Chinese.

[View from the outside]

"When I went skiing there, I foolishly took a hotel room instead of an apartment. ... and bought a Chinese teapot" - China, probably, only "drives" low-quality goods to Russia, so Chinese bought in Switzerland is buzzing . In the States, even in expensive stores like Bloomingdales or Saks 5th Avenue, most of the goods are "made in PRC". And serve for years. But jeans, New Balance sneakers, Timberlands shoes (for 25 tr in Moscow) and expensive electronic equipment (well, there’s also every little thing like Boeing, haha) - this is their homespun.
P.S. and when I was skiing in Switzerland, I bought,)) all kinds of expensive chronographs, because I didn’t think that someday microchips would be needed for the needs of the army, which are only in electronic ...))

[Seafood]

China "drives" to Russia those goods that Russians can afford to buy.

[View from the outside]

"China" drives "to Russia those goods that Russians can afford to buy." - I would probably agree that they clearly divide their goods by country. For example, the same iPhones and computers are made in China, and no one complains. My Spider-ski jacket too, but it has been serving for more than 10 years and is like new. By the way, I don’t understand who downvoted you and why. I put a plus, and it will be 0.

[Egeny]

Figs with him - I will boil tea on the fire.

Bravo, Dmitry.)

[Nexcom]

Thank you, colleague.
If only my wife hadn’t dressed up, I would have brought an iron too. Yeah.
And let the adversaries stink!

[Geosun]

That's right, we will throw irons from drones :)

[Nexcom]

I suppose that grandmother's iron ones are better there. Modern masses are small. The current here is the mikruhi and then soldering it ... They won’t fit for more.

[Egeny]

Dima, is your wife also Coma?)
... and about the "adversaries" ... yes, let them go to the bathhouse, they stink anyway.

[Real Pilot]

According to journalists, in this case, the Russian Federation uses a procurement network allegedly created in Turkey.

And nearby they talk about the problems of the Grain Deal and the gas hub. It is not that simple! Here the question is not so obvious, the balance is political and economic... And a bit strategic. We don’t really feel sorry for someone else’s grain (Western companies have already chartered it, paid for it and bought land in 404 - this is a pre-war crop), but if you can get something more significant for agreeing to export it, then this is very good.
The issue of land ownership and future crops in Ukraine will be decided upon the end of the conflict, in favor of the winners.

And in Georgia, the turnover with the "CIS" (yes-yes) increased 4 times last year. And trade with China is accelerating...

Sanctioners should, for this case, for true efficiency, prohibit the purchase of everything and everyone, or tighten control to each radio element! But then it's not just a shot in the foot, but soaping up the ropes on your economy with a stern face and formidable determination.

No one is soldering chips. It’s just that shell companies indicate in their purchases the intended purpose in the form of the production of washing machines, scooters, refrigerators and other civilian equipment. And there is almost no way to check this in advance, because our supplies are "closed" very professionally. Everything is clean and beautiful, the documents do not even smell of Russia.

[Egoza]

Quote: RealPilot

No one is soldering chips.

And if so? I bought it and do what I want with this crap. What do you care about your Switzerland?

[Denis812]

Now, if you insert a soldered chip into a UAV and give it to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, then "You are done, this is an exclusively democratic correct decision."
And if you give the UAV with a chip to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, then "you have sold out to the bloody regime and generally support anti-Western values."
Something like this :)

[oleg-nekrasov-19]

If this is a chip from a teapot, send it in a valuable parcel to the Altair NPO, where they make "Daggers" out of them

[Nexcom]

And do I believe in "Onyx" mikruhi from irons?

My washing machine does not give anything away, its petty-bourgeois essence is what kind of landmine with a spin at 1100 rpm could be topped up.

[evgen1221]

I'm really scared to think where the microcircuits from the PC motherboards will go, and the processor is definitely in the Star Destroyer 4000.))))

[Grim Reaper]

What do electric kettles have chips in????

[UA3QHP]

What do electric kettles have chips in????

In "smart" there are.

[Grim Reaper]

Quote: Ua3qhp

What do electric kettles have chips in????

In "smart" there are.

Yes, life has been wasted. Especially when you read about it:
+ + + + +
The modern home is increasingly equipped with automated devices. This also applies to plumbing. So, people began to actively use smart toilets, which, due to their functions, significantly increase the level of comfort in the toilet room.
±++++++++
So not only can you tear out chips from teapots .....
;)

[Polite Moose]

Quote: Nexcom

I won’t regret my electric kettle - where can I bring it so that the microcircuit is soldered ???

I'm still wildly sorry, but where are the mountains of household appliances without "brains"? I need a light bulb for the iron and a sealant for the refrigerator.

[dmi.pris1]

Everything has already been taken apart before us ... On drones

[Eduard Egorov]

So everything is used there, not only chips but also cases, only wings are attached and in flight

[Igor Petrovich Gutarov]

What kind of nonsense are these foreign media writing?! Any radio components can be used for both military and civilian purposes. An alarm clock can wake you up at a certain time, or it can activate a bomb. What is a dual purpose product anyway? Well, what about pitchforks, axes, shovels, clothesline, they can also be used as edged weapons, these are also dual-use products?!))) And why remove the chip from the kettle, it’s easier to screw wings to it, an excellent drone will come out. I drank tea, sent it for reconnaissance, when you return, you drink tea again.))) It all reminds me of a Soviet joke - "A US reconnaissance aircraft flies over our territory and the pilot is surprised why he is not intercepted and shot down. The pilot sees a wheat field and a combine is on it. Suddenly, a surface-to-air missile takes off from the combine and shoots down a US plane. The next day, a TASS message. If the United States does not stop provocative flights over our territory, then we will be forced to replace combines with air defense systems with vertical take-off mowers.") ))

[Nexcom]

Such push-button phones are used by craftsmen barmaley in dressing gowns and slippers to activate explosive devices. If this is not the banter of filmmakers.

[Xnumx vis]

Quote: Igor Petrovich Gutarov

The pilot sees a wheat field and a combine on it. Suddenly, a surface-to-air missile takes off from the combine and shoots down a US plane.

By the way, good idea! I think nuggets have not disappeared in Rus'. They will pick up and deepen your idea. I won’t be surprised if it appears in a couple of years - there are no analogues ... like this ....

[Eduard Egorov]

Of course, nuggets did not disappear in Rus'. Make UAVs out of kettles and irons that are not inferior to the best Western counterparts.

[1 z1]

I tried to convince my wife to disassemble the washing machine for the needs of the front. She immediately advised me to storm Kyiv alone. According to her, I have much more chances to survive there.
That's where the fifth column is.

[bulava74]

Not rolling, but temporarily ownerless, waiting for the user.
Where is the acceptance of chips from used equipment.

[Filibuster]

Orlan is generally their bike, slightly filed.
Shh! Just don't tell them!

[tralflot1832]

Yes, we don’t have chips in weapons, everything is on a wire, on levers on weights. And it’s strange that it flies and hits. Yes, I forgot everything is held on by blue electrical tape with AI and produced using nanotechnology.

[Nexcom]

I just have two skeins of electrical tape in my stash, and it’s blue. Ready to donate to military needs. I will also give the wires little by little. Aluminum "noodle". Yeah.

PS Tell me, is the black electrical tape no longer a channel? Is it blue???? I'm just not an expert on blue duct tape.

[Grim Reaper]

Black is the coolest. And the myth about blue was invented by you-know-who.

[Center]

[Dali]

Quote: Nexcom

I just have two skeins of electrical tape in my stash, and it’s blue.

Unless the Chinese safeLine ... the adhesive base (adhesive) floats in a month ...

[bk316]

You take and disassemble the copter, there are only 2 specialized chips.
GPS module and radio module, in my copter they are even made as separate scarves.
It is clear that the positioning module of our warriors is not GPS, but glonass. The radio module remains.
I can’t imagine where a radio module can be used in a bicycle.
Probably out of touch with life.

[Roma 1977]

How is it where? You ride a bike and listen to music on the radio from the radio module.

[Amateur]

Under the USSR, the Finns from Nokia did this. They started with re-sticking nameplates, and ended up with the largest transnational corporation, which by the beginning of the 90s gave up to 15% of Finnish GDP. Now "from a great mind" they decided to join NATO. Therefore, denyuzhka will now go to the Turks and the Chinese.
"Holy place will not be empty"
(Folk wisdom)

[dmi.pris1]

As for Nokia ... They didn’t re-glue the nameplates. It was originally a galoshes building office. From these galoshes, they rose ..

[Sergio Vo]

overshoes>>cables> telephones> telephones and communication equipment

[alexmach]

Yes, and Nokia died 10+ years before they decided to join NATO .. ​​Even to be precise, it was officially buried 10 years ago, and she died much earlier.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Galoshes are a Soviet feature, aren't they? According to GDP

[sifgame]

According to the title of the article - by God, let them think that they want washing scooters and robotic vacuum cleaners, this is our everything, underestimating such an enemy as Russia will cost them dearly.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Underestimating any enemy is costly

[lukash66]

Is there a car manufacturing facility in Switzerland? I fell behind life, I did not know.

[Lynx2000]

Quote from: lukash66

Is there a car manufacturing facility in Switzerland? I fell behind life, I did not know.

Yes, MOWAG GmbH (Automotive Plant) has been producing vehicles and universal chassis for the army, firefighters and the national economy since the middle of the last century. Now owned or affiliated with the American General Dynamics and is called GDELS-MOWAG.
In Ukraine, their vehicles have already been seen:

SAURER produced trucks, buses, military equipment. About this company, if I'm not mistaken, they wrote here.
There are still small ones like design bureaus, others are closed, but they previously produced vehicles.

[lukash66]

What kind of smart guy is going to buy these products to solder microcircuits out of them? And then where is this iron with a non-working engine, transmission (boxes, then go automatic) and other electronic stray to shake off?

[evgen1221]

Apparently, when they write such stories, they judge by themselves. The same frostbitten Sumerian.

[Lynx2000]

Quote from: lukash66

What kind of smart guy is going to buy these products to solder microcircuits out of them? And then where is this iron with a non-working engine and transmission (boxes, then go automatic) to shake off?

For what? Quietly dismantled "control units". In the automotive industry, not all automakers and do not always have their own full cycle of manufacturing units, there are independent subcontractors that produce electronics for cars, transfer boxes, automatic or mechanical gearboxes, etc.

My answer was to your question: is there a car industry in Switzerland? What can be "cannibalized" out of them is another question.

[Igor Petrovich Gutarov]

I don't know about cars and electric bikes. But we have met Swiss electric kettles! Everything that I saw, the names are European, but made in China !!!)))

[blackcat]

I have never heard more nonsense in my life, buying a car to get a chip out of it, well, or a bicycle, but what kind of chips are in a bicycle by the way ??? Just tin

[Polite Moose]

Quote: blackcat

I have never heard more nonsense in my life, buy a car to get a chip out of it,

That's not all. A Russian analogue is soldered in place of the soldered chip. Do not disappear as good as Swiss household appliances.

[stelltok]

what kind of chips are in the bike???

Bicycles sometimes have a dashboard.
display (INSTRUMENT PANEL) for electric bike
https://electrotransport.ru/ussr/index.php?topic=16463.216

[bk316]

Bicycles sometimes have a dashboard.
display (INSTRUMENT PANEL) for electric bike

And why the hell is it necessary in the UAV?

[Repellent]

Quote: bk316

And why the hell is it necessary in the UAV?

well, to measure the speed ... for example. And mileage

[Motorist]

Quote: Repellent

Quote: bk316

And why the hell is it necessary in the UAV?

well, to measure the speed ... for example. And mileage

...and calories - fuel consumption, after all.

[bk316]

well, to measure the speed ... for example. And mileage

Che speedometer and odometer without a touch panel in any way? Lost technology?

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Pedal assembly for driving a drone

[former soldier]

our chips are dismantled from commercial products such as electric bicycles and cars. And then installed on military drones

Let it be assumed. I think that there are several ways to acquire chips. Swiss firms do not necessarily make their chips in Switzerland. For example. Ordered at plants / factories of Asian countries. The factory includes work in the fourth shift and sells made according to gray schemes to everyone. Ps We don't have as many electric bikes as Eagles. Yes, and it's a pity to chicken the animal I mean bike.

[telobezumnoe]

they know how to use their own chips, as I went on a business trip, my friends asked along the way to throw in Swiss-made chips along the way, in 2008 they cost 7 lyam apiece, as I later found out .. and in general I didn’t expect that Switzerland can make them at all, yes and those that at that time the Chinese could not, maybe now they also do not know how)

[Seafood]

Is this some kind of joke? In Switzerland, there is not a single semiconductor manufacturing facility, and the most modern facilities in all of Europe are American, and even then they lag behind the advanced ones by 3-4 generations.

[evgen1221]

Business and profits. But the Sumerians can say that we launched the production of drones at a factory at the bottom of the Black Sea, its ancient Ukrainians forgot when they dug the sea. Let them salivate, maybe someone will die of envy)))

[GREG68]

Well, why lie to tell something .....? Not from electric bikes and scooters, but from irons and washing machines

[Cat Alexandrovich]

And if all these chips really work well for us, then it’s good! Glory to the Swiss!

[Voenoboz]

Nonsense of gray horses, and you mix our oil and use metal, and also use the Periodic Table, here is the answer for Chamberlain.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Here, and who sells this oil and metal to them? Not those people who shout that NATO fascists are our enemies?

[igorbrsv]

It's easier to make on the basis of arduino sets

[Zaurbek]

There was such a story by the Strugatsky Brothers - "Predatory things of the century" .... Civil technology is very perfect and is a source and consumer of a mass of nodes and CHIPs that can be used on military equipment. What is so secret here? Washing machines, TVs, scooters, Construction machinery, machines...machines...all of these need parts. The Russian market on the scale of China or India or Pakistan is ridiculous. How to track?

[Igor Petrovich Gutarov]

By the way they gave me a good idea. I'll try to make an Orlan-type plane out of my washing machine. If it works out, I will use it to wash clothes and fly to work!)))

[Motorist]

Quote: Igor Petrovich Gutarov

By the way they gave me a good idea. I'll try to make an Orlan-type plane out of my washing machine. If it works out, I will use it to wash clothes and fly to work!)))

If Vyatka - I advise you to remove the counterweight. This, of course, if you do not need a concrete brick every day at work.

[Mig45jef]

Tragique! Mais quand, bon dieu, chez Russie-Unie se décidera-t-on à lancer les recherches nécessaires pour doter le pays de tout ce dont il a besoin sans plus jamais recourir à la technologie occidentale ? Et ce sans plus jamais parler de budget évidemment.
Il est franchement temps, et c'est urgent, que les Russes comprennent qu'il faut voter communiste. Qui a besoin de milliardaires et d'usines privées en Russie, hein ? Personne!
Il faut effectuer cette tâche en partenariat avec la Chine, bien sûr.
Russie-Unie, pendant des décennies, a léché les bottes de la secte ultra réactionnaire qui dirige l'Occident ce pour se faire admettre par eux comme les représentants de leur politique dans le pays, mais les autres préfèrent choisir eux-mêmes leurs sous- fifres evidence ha ha ha!
Que de temps perdu et les conséquences de tout cela se constatent en Ukraine aujourd'hui, comment se fait-il que la Russie ne soit pas en mesure de neutraliser aisément de simples pièces d'artillerie venues d'Occident par exemple, comment se fait -il que de hélicoptères dernier cri ne disposent que de bêtes roquettes pour effectuer leur mission?

[Gestas]

Nos "communistes" sont les memes compradors, avec des milliards dans la planque. En 1996, nous avons élu les communistes pour quatre ans. Je n'ai remarqué aucune déprivatisation, et il n'y avait que plus de milliardaires parmi les "communistes".

[Gestas]

Nos "communistes" sont les memes compradors, avec des milliards dans la planque. En 1996, nous avons élu les communistes pour quatre ans. Je n'ai remarqué aucune déprivatisation, et il n'y avait que plus de milliardaires parmi les "communistes".

[orionvitt]

chips are being dismantled from commercial products such as electric bicycles and cars.

I did not think that I would live to see this tragic time. The 21st century is in the yard, and the world is getting dumber and dumber. Tomorrow they will say that Russia, in order to produce weapons, picks out chips from children's toys. And what, a good move, the main thing for emotions clings.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: orionvitt

Tomorrow they will say that Russia, in order to produce weapons, picks out chips from children's toys

I won’t say for toys, but there were already supplies of breast pumps that have grown dramatically after the start of the war. With a hint that in Russia they are somehow used for military purposes ...

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Well, the goal of any media is not to appeal to logic, but to emotions, in order to turn off critical thinking.

[Fitter65]

our chips are dismantled from commercial products such as electric bicycles and cars. And then installed on military drones

Of course, not washing machines and irons, but still.

[Vladislav Polushin (Vlad74)]

I wonder what kind of chip can be removed from an electric bike? I've been doing this for over a year now and I'm completely confused. If you pull it out of the main controller, then at best there is a primitive chip for controlling a BLDC engine, it usually does not have functionality for long-distance communication. If you pull it out of the battery, then in the most advanced BMS there is a connection via Bluetooth with an android application to control the state of the elements. Do they think that a military drone can be controlled via Bluetooth? And the most interesting thing is that 99% of these components are from China, since most of the "European" electric bikes are a local rebranding of Chinese models, and nothing more...

[KrolikZanuda]

Such a supply of chips to ride through the streets, they didn’t know, they didn’t guess, but it would come in handy)))

[decimalegio]

This isn't exactly in the news, but since the war started, newspapers have been reporting that the theft of Rotax engines, or ultralight engines in general, has increased in Europe. According to the newspapers, the excuse would be that they are being stolen for Iranian drones.

[Anton Boldakov]

Nightmare! We dismantle scooters for military weapons. Orc Big Meks from Warhammer are crying out loud with envy!

[AlxT]

About five years ago I assembled quadrocopters, and not a single teapot from Switzerland was injured. Enough cheap Chinese components. I don’t understand at all, there is complexity in the software, the hardware is generally primitive. A collar for a cat with GPS for 1000 rubles from Aliexpress, filled with epoxy, is enough to make a cruise missile with an accuracy of plus or minus 10 meters. For her, jet engines and software for maneuvering against air defense and missile defense are more important.

[Muromczev-2015]

That is, they pick out the chips, and then where do the scooters and washing machines go? Throw away?... Boo-ha-ha-ha-ha...

[Griffith]

Dig deeper. These unfortunate chips are 60-90% Russian, as they consist of materials purchased in Russia, electricity is used in production on our gas and fuel oil, logistics are fueled from our oil, production is on conveyors from our metal and rubber, and are made workers from the former USSR or ancestors from Tsarist Russia. Of course, a little exaggerated, but there are grains of truth here and there are many of them. So conscience should not torment when we take our own.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

You can also say to a cat that she is a dog - she has teeth, ears, four paws and a tail ... a little exaggerated, but there is some kind of mustache of truth in this.
P. S: The EU receives the lion's share of rare earth metals from China (in transit through the Russian Federation) and if, as you say, everything in these chips is Russian, then why aren't they produced in Russia? Do not be like Ukrainians who loved this practice, pull an owl on a globe in search of great achievements ukrov.

[Mikhail Krivopalov]

Well, what do you want, they give us chips and spare parts, we provide them with resources. At the moment, the trade turnover between the EU and Russia is at the highest level in 8 years (according to Russian media). This is for the people, both sides talk about enemies, and normal guys at a high level make normal money.

[Fangaro]

Making Switzerland a leader in the production of microcircuits? And what?
If they are used both in electric bikes and in cars, but only the Swiss have learned how to make them, I can’t believe it.

[Bekkham Ali]

The speed limit for electric scooters is 25 km/h. Does it also work on drones with controllers from these devices? Or April XNUMXst?

[stankow]

Civilian GPS chips have always had a speed limit of up to 500 m/s. And in height, it seems 21 km. So that you can’t put in ballistic missiles. At one time they were exported, they are monitoring this. Also, software for increasing accuracy, forming the "zero" of the antenna, etc. is not allowed.

[Sergey3]

Exactly, exactly, all the chips were soldered, all the hedgehogs were eaten, and now we are coming to you!

[Neluyd]

I still haven’t moved away from toilets and washing machines, and then there are scooters)))

[sdivt]

Quote: Polite Elk

and where are the mountains of household appliances without "brains"?

Nowhere
They weren't
These microcircuits / microcontrollers (if this is true, of course) are bought by shell companies, ostensibly for use in household appliances - those very notorious washing machines and so on)
Then the chips go through 100500 hands / addresses / front companies and firms, and as a result, never having seen their kettles and washing machines, they end up in Russia, brand new and in packages
I don't know if this is true or not, but it looks logical

[Zefr]

I have only one question for the article. Okay, April 1st. But where does Switzerland get its own microchips?

[Ulan.1812]

Something about mobile phones is silent, there are also chips.
And there are millions of mobile phones.

[PetrovBasharov]

And the spies poisoned the water with moonshine. Well, the bread is now made of fish scales. Why did they forget about hair dryers and toasters?

[mr wolf]

Quote: tralflot1832

Yes, we don’t have chips in weapons, everything is on a wire, on levers on weights. And it’s strange that it flies and hits. Yes, I forgot everything is held on by blue electrical tape with AI and produced using nanotechnology.

In the conditions of the most severe sanctions, even blue electrical tape can become a shortage, not to mention wire ... I propose to use other elements for drones - these are sticks (there are many of them in the taiga), and a binder that we can "produce" ourselves ..

[Sergei Timofeich]

Trophies are cool, I hope it's temporary ..

[odisey3000]

Well, everything is fine. You never know who wants something in the West, the main thing is that we want it.

[Shelest2000]

“Our chips are being dismantled from electric bicycles and cars”: the Swiss company explained the “stuffing” of Russian Orlan drones

Today the police broke into my house and bit out all the chips from household appliances - they say there is not enough for a new "Satan".