Russia's Drone Program in China

This is a China news story, published by MSN, that relates primarily to IEMZ Kupol news.

China news

For more China news, you can click here:

more China news

IEMZ Kupol news

For more IEMZ Kupol news, you can click here:

more IEMZ Kupol news

News about Asia politics

For more Asia politics news, you can click here:

more Asia politics news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best world news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like this article about Asia politics, you might also like this article about

Russian military drones

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest Chinese drone research news, military drone news, news about Asia politics, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

Chinese drone specialists

Reuters

•

Exclusive-Russia has secret war drones project in China, intel sources say

Summary

Nutrition label

80% Informative

Russia has established a weapons programme in China to develop and produce long-range attack drones for use in the war against Ukraine .

IEMZ Kupol , a subsidiary of Russian state-owned weapons company Almaz-Antey , has developed and flight-tested a new drone model called Garpiya-3.

China 's foreign ministry told Reuters it was not aware of such a project, adding that the country had strict control measures on the export of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles.

Beijing has repeatedly denied that China or Chinese companies supplied the weapons to Russia .

Both Russia and Ukraine are racing to ramp up their production of drones, which have emerged as highly effective weapons in the war.

Kupol could skirt Western sanctions on Russia by setting up a production facility in China where it could access advanced chips and expertise.

But Beijing has reason to tread carefully: "For a factory to exist officially that builds UAVs for the Russians exposes China to some of the more severe effects of the sanctions".

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful