Ukraine said it destroyed one of Russia's best and most expensive fighter jets over Kursk as its military pushes further into the region.
  • Ukraine downed a Russian Su-34 fighter jet over Kursk amid an ongoing territorial push.
  • The Su-34, worth around $36 million, is Russia’s most efficient fighter bomber with advanced tech.
  • Ukraine has previously held long kill streaks with Russian Su-34s.
  • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    131·
    1 month ago

    They can’t even make sufficient ball bearings to keep their railroad alive; they depended entirely on western imports lol

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      92·
      1 month ago

      Solid propaganda but I am sure China can machine them some fucking ball bearings lol

      There are shortages though.

      • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        The bearings in trains are actually pretty complicated to build. They use slanted roller bearings, not just regular old ball bearings. 10 companies in the world make like 70% of all rail bearings, and 5 of those are in Japan. Plus, only a few countries produce the two steel alloys that you make these bearings out of.

        China does produce around 20% of the bearings used in trains, but pretty much all of it gets used for domestic purposes and they still have to import due to their massive rail expansion projects

      • Olap@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        100% this isn’t a lost technology, it “just” needs some machines built

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
        41·
        1 month ago

        The ball bearings are made in Germany with a very specific level of precision that China can definitely replicate given how they rapidly caught up to the rest of the world in the past 30 years economically and technologically. (Hint was done primarily through corporate espionage and theft)