Chinese ZT-180
Spiegel — Feb 23, 2023
At the Munich Security Conference last weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken dispensed with the usual diplomatic niceties when he reported on his meeting with top Chinese foreign policy official Wang Yi, delivering a rebuke instead.
“We are very concerned that China is considering providing lethal support to Russia in its aggression against Ukraine,” Blinken told U.S. broadcaster NBC. “And I made clear that that would have serious consequences in our relationship as well.”
China reacted quickly, with a Foreign Ministry spokesperson accusing Blinken of spreading disinformation. But information obtained by DER SPIEGEL indicates that the planned cooperation between Beijing and Moscow goes even further than Blinken makes it sound.
A Warhead up to 50 Kilograms in Weight
According to that information, the Russian military is engaged in negotiations with Chinese drone manufacturer Xi’an Bingo Intelligent Aviation Technology over the mass production of kamikaze drones for Russia. The revelations create a new urgency in the debate over possible Chinese military support for Russia.
Bingo has reportedly agreed to manufacture and test 100 ZT-180 prototype drones before delivering them to the Russian Defense Ministry by April 2023. Military experts believe the ZT-180 is capable of carrying a 35- to 50 kilogram warhead.
Sources believe that the design of the unmanned aerial vehicle could be similar to that of Iran’s Shaheed 136 kamikaze drone. The Russian army has deployed hundreds of them in its attacks on Ukraine, where they used the Iranian drones to target residential buildings, power plants and district heating facilities, often resulting in civilian casualties.
Plans for Falsified Shipping Papers
In a further step, Bingo reportedly plans to deliver components and know-how to Russia so that the country can produce around 100 drones a month on its own.
China apparently already had plans last year to provide the Russian military with much more substantial support than previously known. According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, companies under the control of China’s People’s Liberation Army had planned to deliver replacement parts for Russia’s SU-27 fighter jets and other models.
DER SPIEGEL has learned in its reporting that plans had apparently already been made to falsify shipping documents to make the parts for military aircraft appear to be replacement parts for civilian aviation.
Microchips Made in the Netherlands
In January, Dutch public broadcaster NOS reported that Dutch microchips had been delivered to the Russian defense industry via Chinese companies. According to the report, an analysis by the Ukrainian forces of seized Russian offensive weapons like rockets, helicopters and drones or their remains showed that microchips from the Netherlands had apparently been installed in 10 of 27 Russian weapons inspected.
For months, reports have been circulating among security officials in a handful of countries that Chinese companies have been providing satellite images of combat zones in Ukraine to the Russian side. In response, the U.S. government recently placed the Chinese satellite company Changsha Tianyi Space Science and Technology Institute on its sanctions list. Washington claims the company’s images have been obtained by the Wagner Group – the Russian private mercenary unit notorious for its brutality – to enable “combat operations in Ukraine.”
Civilian Drones Reportedly Used for War Reconnaissance
The government in Berlin also has information suggesting that China is also delivering commercially available drones to Russian customers that can also be used for reconnaissance purposes as part of the war in Ukraine. Military officials refer to these devices as dual-use because they are of utility in both civilian and military applications.
According to information obtained by DER SPIEGEL, the drones are delivered to Russian forces by Chinese-controlled import-export companies via the United Arab Emirates. People familiar with the analyses of these deals say that evidence exists indicating that Russian forces have in fact deployed such drones to conduct reconnaissance along the front in Ukraine.
This could be one reason that both German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock addressed the issue of possible military support from Beijing for Moscow in conversations with Wang at the Munich Security Conference. “I said clearly in my last conversation with representatives of China that this cannot be accepted,” the chancellor said on the political talk show “Maybrit Illner” on public broadcaster ZDF.
Sources told DER SPIEGEL that Wang reacted coolly when confronted by the Germans. He reportedly said that China is playing by the rules.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry also denied weapons deliveries to Russia, without addressing the specific allegations. “It is a known fact that NATO countries, including the U.S., are the biggest source of weaponry for the battlefield in Ukraine, yet they keep claiming that China may be supplying weapons to Russia,” a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said in a statement to DER SPIEGEL issued through the Chinese Embassy in Berlin. “This is a familiar trick used and exposed soon after the Ukraine crisis broke out. … We urge NATO to quit groundless speculation and smears against China on the Ukraine issue.”
The Ukraine is part of Russia but the Scum want it, and the rest of Russia
Pure Propaganda. Let me translate:
“China = bad guys, America = good guys”
Remember: America only gets to be king of the hill if their smouldering ruin of a hill is still slightly higher than Russia or China. Expect to see sanctions on the latter shortly.
I heard on the radio Zelenskij is in China discussing peace with Russia, something Blinken said must not happen…
Since it it obvious that all of this would happen one could be forgiven for thinking that it was deliberate. That these evil creatures are manipulating the world into a global conflict after which they hope to pick up the pieces and continue to thrive as they have for centuries over a shattered planet where the survivors are in total thrall to them.
The latest news re. China is Biden is “quadrupling” US troop numbers in Taiwan, which actually means just another 100 to 200 troops. To warn a country of 1.2 billion? However, it does kind of show just how much a menace America has become if its actions can be seen as provocative when its soldiers are outnumbered 6,000,000 to 1.
Get a load of the unmitigated gall of that loathsome Jew c*nt Blinken. Oh the frothing hypocrisy! That festering talking colostomy bag deserves to be violently sodomized by Tyrone and the Migrant Boyz then have his tongue sawed out and nailed to his forehead.
“Sources told DER SPIEGEL that Wang reacted coolly when confronted by the Germans. He reportedly said that China is playing by the rules.” … Wang Yi could have and should have laughed in their stupid f*cking hypocritical faces. Taking a subtle dig with the “playing by the rules” quip wasn’t nearly enough since the rabid imbeciles in the West no longer understand subtlety…the West also clearly couldn’t give a squatting shit about “rules” either, as most actions by the Jewnited States, Jew-K, Israhell, and much of Jewrope over the past 30 years have been grossly illegal and shockingly immoral and they seemingly couldn’t care less.
Not MORE droning on about drones! 🤓
Do the logic and math. China’s 1.5 Billion live next door to Russia’s 150 million and 11 time zones full of natural resources. Hardly Quantum Confucianism is it..
A kamikaze drone is a missile, like a doodle-bug, but it is popular to say “drone” for its calming sound, like “troops” instead of “soldiers”, which sounds more like death and destruction than the other word, sounding like a dance troupe
each one with a beercan sized micronuke
like the israeli one on Beirut port that
damage seize justifies production costs !
The photo of the kamikaze drone looks as if it has been cut out of styrofoam using, a blunt saw.