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But we make "Lancets"
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“Important stories” continue to tell how Russia bypasses the sanctions: Read about the importing of chips through Kazakhstan here , about components for “Orlan” drones - here , about components for Rostec companies - here , why the sanctions work so crookedly here .
“Russia still has something to do with those who want to fight. Ukraine, for example, was bought by the Turkish drones of Bayraktar. Flying with a speed of twice as much Russian “Lancet” does not leave the “Bayractars” of chances. And this little thing is mining the sky, ” - the propagandist Dmitry Kiselev pre -preceded the plot about the then little -known Lancet drunken drones in April 2021. The plot shows how the drone in Syria crashes into a car with Islamic terrorists.
Lancet is a barracking ammunition . This is a drone, whose task is to deliver the projectile to the target: tank, car, air defense, guns, command post, etc. Now Lancets destroy people and equipment in Ukraine. Russian wire telegram channels regularly publish messages about the strikes with Lanceta-for example, he likes to tell a “fisherman” about it. There is even a list of what was destroyed in Ukraine using Lanceta.
Who makes "lancens"
Lantzet drovers make Zala Aero Group, its main legal entity - created in 2010 LLC CST. The control owner with a share of 50.85% is Alexander Zakharov (the rest is at the Kalashnikov concern).
Zakharov is not only the main owner of Zala, but also the chief designer. He has been engaged in drones for many years. The company's website says that its drones buy to search for missing people, extinguishing fires, monitoring of oil pipelines and other things. Among customers are the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Emergencies, the Investigative Committee, the State Field. Since 2011, the Central Bank has entered into such state contracts for 3.3 billion rubles.
But now the main buyer is the military. According to the documents that had at the disposal of “important stories”, in 2022–2023, the Central Department Store sold its drones to the military for 5.3 billion rubles (the central research institute of chemistry and mechanics-4.3 billion rubles, the 18th Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Kalashnikov concern-0.5 billion).
[He] actually sticks a large target on the residential areas of Izhevsk, which can be seen even from space
In August 2022, Zakharov proposed re -equipped with shopping centers, idle after the departure of Western brands, under the production of drones. “I, as a person who was born and works in the city of gunsmiths [Izhevsk], was bitter to see how powerful factories built in Soviet times turned into shopping centers one after another. But there is a way how to quickly and repeatedly increase the production of unmanned vehicles. We have developed a concept for the conversion of shopping centers, in which before the start of the Western brands were traded, three types of domestic drones were trained in conveyor production plants. I have long kept the idea that the time would come and industry will return to those places where in the 90s we lost plants for various office and shopping centers, ”Zakharov explained .
The designer’s plan began to be implemented in the Izhevsk shopping and entertainment center “Italmas”, which was acquired in the interests of the Zakharov family. The prospect of obtaining the production of combat drones instead of a familiar bath and shops caused the indignation of local residents, they even launched a petition on the Change.org website: “The person who tells the whole world about the absolutely secret military enterprise is a sabotage ... This actually sticks a large target into the residential areas of Izhevsk, which can be seen even from space.”
In the business of Zala Aero Group, the children of Zakharov participate: the son of Nikita and daughter Maria. Their companies today are the largest suppliers of the Central Executive Committee.
In 2014-2015, Nikita Zakharov was the deputy general director of Zala Aero and demonstrated drones to the then Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Now Nikita is the owner of the Aeroskan company, whose revenue after Russia's invasion of Ukraine took off ten times and in 2022 amounted to 3.8 billion rubles. In 2022–2023, Aeroskan has 2.5 billion contracts with the Central Department Store.
The company of Maria Zakharova, the NTC Orion, in 2022 also grew up in revenue - up to 400 million, it has almost 500 million contracts with the Central Department Store.
Where do they get the details
Alexander Zakharov, by some miracle, escaped international sanctions, and only Ukraine, Australia and Great Britain imposed sanctions on the Central Department of Sciences-but not Europe and not the United States. Nevertheless, at least part of the components for “lancets”, obviously, falls under Western export sanctions (as, for example , in the case of other popular Russian drones of Orlan). Where does the Central Department of Sciences take components?
It offers a whole network of suppliers who import the necessary details from around the world to Russia.
So, in the first three companies in the sum of the supplies of the Central Department Store, except for Aeroskan (Son) and Orion) and her daughter, the Novosibirsk OMP is included in 2022–2023, she sold the Products Center for 1.4 billion rubles, and imported into Russia for 1.3 billion OMP belongs to Maxim Kotelnikov, Aeroskana employee and CST (either to the former or the former or the former. whether the current). According to the customs databases, the OMP conducts active trading with China, purchasing electric engines, aluminum products, screws, bolts, nuts, etc.
Other importers supply the Center for College of Million rubles a year.
If the military want to get components that are under export control, then they receive them. Yes, this is difficult, but if customers have time, energy and resources - no problems
The most extensive geography of the import of sanctioned products to Russia at Hartis DV Dmitry Dmitriev. “The decision to enter the market for electronic components was due to increasing sanction pressure and the difficulties that this created for Russian companies,” the Hartis DV website said . - To overcome these problems, many years of experience of international activities and knowledge of the features of work in various markets of our planet were used. We use the developed connections in Europe, North America and Asia to fulfill the most difficult orders. ” In 2022–2023, Khartis DV sold the Central Plant and OMP of goods for more than 50 million rubles. These are clearly not the main customers of her: in total, during this time, “Hartis” imported goods for 1.7 billion rubles.
Moscow "IDI SOLUSHNS" sold the Central Department of Products for 60.4 million, another supplier of the Central Department Store-"Photo Park"-to 95 million. "Geography of the work of the ID Solutions covers several regions in Russia, Kazakhstan, the Republic of Belarus, the existing production on Taiwan is and continental Chines Germany, France and India, ”the company reports .
Subscribe to our rash alphabet we send only important stories"Aidi Solushnes" belongs to Igor Ievlev. On his page in Linkedin, Ivlev indicates that in 20 years he founded and launched several successful projects in the field of information technology. Currently, he is in Dubai and is a co -owner of Scyscraper , which develops the software for managing office premises. The contacts indicate the address in the capital of Uzbekistan Tashkent and Mvizion. According to the customs bases, after the outbreak of the war, the Uzbekistan Mvizion delivered to the Russian “Aidi Solushnes” goods for 150 million rubles, including from the American Hitech Global and Nvidia. Before the war, "Aidi Solushnes" and Hitech Global traded directly.
The St. Petersburg SPEL, owned by Pavel Snegov and Sergey Orlov, sold the Central Department of Sciences and OMP products by about 100 million. SPEL has been set up from several dozen European and Asian manufacturers. Among other SPEL clients, which it sells components, Russian defense enterprises - Radio Avionic, Testpribor, Tactical missile weapons.
Difficult, but possible
In general, the sanctions are quite effective: Russia has so far managed to replace only about a quarter of imported imports because of them, researchers say . But they note that the microelectronics, which is used in the production of Russian weapons, is an exception - everything is so confused that it is still impossible to even find relevant statistics (Russia shows an increase in imports from China, and China does not show an increase in export, so the chips appear literally from the air).
“If the military or special services want to receive components who are under export control, then they usually receive them - through intermediaries. Yes, it is difficult and more expensive, but if customers have time, energy and resources, there are no problems, ”the American expert in the field of export control admitted in an interview with“ important stories ”.