Russia’s new S8000 cruise missile contains foreign-made parts from the US, Japan, China and others, including a $16K Chinese jet engine sold openly on AliExpress.

The new Russian S8000 “Banderol” cruise missile contains foreign components, including parts manufactured in China, Japan, and South Korea, as well as nearly two dozen microchips produced by companies from the United States, Switzerland, Japan, China, and South Korea.

According to Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence (HUR), which published the missile’s technical specifications on the War&Sanctions portal in the “Components in Weapons” section, a distinctive feature of the missile is its ability to make tighter turns than standard Russian cruise missiles (such as the Kh-101, 3M-14, 9M727, and Kh-69) while maintaining the typical cruise missile flight path.

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