NATO activates Article 4 after Russian drones entered Polish airspace, Warsaw says
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Article 4 of the NATO treaty allows member states to request consultations with the allies if they believe their security has been threatened, without triggering a military response.

Poland has requested the activation of Article 4 of NATO’s treaty over the incursion of Russian drones into Polish airspace, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Sept. 10.

  • Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    As The Times reports about the drones shot down in Poland:

    The Shahed 136 — or Geran 2 in Russian — has become the most frequently used in the Ukraine war. Russia has begun mass producing them on their own soil.

    The plant in Alabuga in the Tatarstan region of Russia, is staffed primarily with migrant labour, some of which is from Africa. Japanese media also reported that the supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, is to send 25,000 workers there.

    Not everything is made in Russia. The four-cylinder engine is made by a Chinese company, Xiamen Limbach, while the high-tech parts of the drone — the signal generators and converters — are manufactured by the Beijing Microelectronics Technology Institute.

    • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
      18·
      2 days ago

      The four-cylinder engine is made by a Chinese company, Xiamen Limbach

      …which was a German company bought by the Chinese in 2011.

      It was and is a problem to carelessly have sold so much industry to them.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        7·
        2 days ago

        Ehh… The engine is a just a little 50hp thing designed in the 80s. I am quite sure Iran could do that by themselves with or without China or Germany being involved

      • oneser@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        Looking briefly, it appears the current owner basically bought the company out of bankruptcy. It doesn’t appear that the motors are particularly novel.

        The owner is a dual German/Chinese national, be was done so at a time of amicable relations. Even today such a sale would (IMHO) likely not be seen as geopolitically significant.

        • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          Yet we have the problem that a company seated in Germany but Chinese-owned is propelling the tools used by enemies of ours to wage a war against a country that wishes to align with us.