Russia has established a weapons programme in China
to develop and produce long-range attack drones
for use in the war against Ukraine,
according to two sources from a European intelligence agency and documents reviewed by Reuters.
IEMZ Kupol, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned arms company Almaz-Antey,
has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3 (G3) in China
with the help of local specialists, according to one of the documents,
a report that Kupol sent to the Russian defence ministry earlier this year outlining its work
https://www.reuters.com/world/russia-has-secret-war-drones-project-china-intel-sources-say-2024-09-25/
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2024-09-26 05:45:49
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