The turret is capable of firing from various machine guns. Like Ukrainian Shablia, it is controlled by cable but has not entered serial production yet.
The supply indicates growing defense cooperation between the countries, complementing the list of other calibers which Iran has been supplying to Russia.
US officials report China is supplying Russia with crucial components for missiles, drones, and military equipment, enabling Moscow to ramp up defense production amidst the ongoing war in Ukraine, raising calls for increased sanctions.
The report suggests Russia’s military-industrial complex showed only modest real growth in 2023, with much of so-called "production" being, in fact, the cannibalizing of systems in storage with certain limits.
An investigation has exposed how Russia has tapped Taiwan as its primary source of banned high-tech machine tools by evading sanctions through intermediaries in Turkey and China
Just steps from the EU capital, a Russian GRU veteran and sons mastermind a scheme to keep Russia's military machine rolling with banned Western equipment
Advanced western machine tools that can automatically cut out any high-precision metal part are a gaping hole in the West's sanctions on Russia's war machine