RUSSIAN DRONES SHOT DOWN OVER UKRAINE WERE FULL OF WESTERN PARTS. CAN THE U.S. CUT THEM OFF? The surveillance drones contained computer chips and components made in the United States and Europe Jeanne Whalen February 11, 2022
In early 2007, Ukranian forces battling Russian-backed separatist shot down a drone conducting surveillance over the eastern flank of Ukraine.
The unmanned aircraft, nearly six feet long with a cone-shaped nose and a shiny gray body, had all the external characteristics of a Russian military drone. When researchers cracked it open, however, they found electronic components manufactured by a half-dozen Western companies.
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