Russian media, drone mass production lights up bread factory
Due to Western sanctions following the Ukraine War,
Produce 250 drones per month with a 3D printer
On Russian state TV introduced by the Financial Times (FT) on the 5th, a Russian journalist is explaining how bread and drones are made together at a Tambov bread factory. [출처=텔레그램]
Russia, which has been subject to Western economic sanctions since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, is showing on state TV the mass production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at a bread factory, as if mocking the effectiveness of the sanctions.
On the 5th, the Financial Times (FT), citing Russian state TV VGTRK, reported that small drones were being made along with bread at the Tambov bread factory in central Russia.
According to the FT, bakers working at the Tambov Bread Factory were placed on a blacklist that the U.S. is keeping a close eye on in December last year on suspicion of producing small drones used by the Russian military in the war in Ukraine.
The current owner of the Tambov bread factory has close ties to the Russian local government, and the person in charge of baking the bread is known to be a former lieutenant colonel in the Russian reserve forces.
On Russian state TV introduced by the Financial Times (FT) on the 5th, a Russian journalist is explaining how bread and drones are made together at a Tambov bread factory. [출처=텔레그램]
The FT evaluated, “This bread factory has become an icon showing the Kremlin’s drive to involve private industry in the production of goods for use on the front lines as the war’s impact on the Russian economy grows.”
Alexander Logatkin, a Russian journalist who appeared on the broadcast, held up a drone passing alongside freshly baked bread on a conveyor belt and said, “You can even smell the fresh bread from the drone.”
According to Russian state media, the Tambov factory first began assembling drones in February last year using 3D printers made in China. Most of the parts needed to build the drone, known as the ‘Bacchus drone’, are easily available online despite the West’s continued economic sanctions against Russia.
The cost for bakers to make one drone was found to be only about 25,000 to 50,000 rubles (about $270). It is reported that the bread factory is currently producing about 250 drones and camouflage backpacks each month.
Previously, at an event where Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the defense industry giant Rostec in November last year, he said, “Factories are fully operational in dozens of places in Russia, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Siberia, and the Far East,” and added, “In today’s war situation, not only the defense industry, but also the defense industry. “Private industry is also providing the driving force for material production,” he said.
Bread made at the Tambov Bread Factory and a drone shown on Russian state TV. [출처=텔레그램]
According to data from the Russian Ministry of Trade last year, more than 500 Russian light industrial companies will convert into military equipment manufacturers, and four times more military equipment is expected to be produced in 2022 than at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the FT added.
The FT reported that in addition to the Tambov bread factory, an ice hockey stick workshop in Naberezhnye Chelny, a city in central western Russia, has been converted into a bulletproof vest factory, and a glamping tent company in Chelyabinsk, an industrial city in the Ural region, makes sleeping bags and tents for combat. added.
“I am proud and happy to be on the US sanctions list,” said Yuri Chicherin, director of the Tambov bread factory. “Who else would mention our bread factory at the international level?” he said, adding that he was putting boxes of bread and cookies on national TV. They also staged an appearance sending it to the White House as a sign of ‘thank you’ to U.S. President Joe Biden.
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2024-01-05 06:54:59
