Russian missiles, American chips

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Oct. 3, 2024

A part of the missile's SN-99 navigation system found after the attack on Chernihiv. Photographer: Julia Kochetova/Bloomberg

Read the story On Aug. 19, 2023, Russia launched a cruise missile into Chernihiv, Ukraine. The explosion transformed a city square into a battlefield, killing 7 people and injuring 214. Sofiya Holynska, a 6-year-old girl visiting for the day with her mother, was among the civilians killed in the attack. Months later, her mother was still asking, "How could a fragment fly from so far away and kill Sofiya?" Part of the answer is that the missile was guided by components made by four Western companies, more than a year after the US and its allies imposed export controls that banned shipments of a broad class of technology to Russia to kneecap its defense industry.  Read The Big Take.

Listen to the podcast On the next Big Take podcast, Bloomberg's Stephanie Baker tells host David Gura about how these components, many of them made by American companies, are making their way to the battlefield. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and listen on iHeart, Apple and Spotify.

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