{"id":18480,"date":"2023-12-04T07:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=18480"},"modified":"2023-12-04T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T12:55:35","slug":"european-sanctions-granat-4-uav-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/european-sanctions-granat-4-uav-system\/","title":{"rendered":"European sanctions disrupt state contract of Russian MOD to supply Granat-4 UAV system"},"content":{"rendered":"

InformNapalm<\/a> volunteer intelligence community received from the<\/strong> Cyber Resistance<\/strong><\/a> hacktivist group unique documents showing that European sanctions are disrupting a state contract of the Russian Ministry of Defense for the supply of the Granat-4 UAV system. The contract was awarded to Izhevsk Unmanned Systems Research and Production Association LLC (NPO IZHBS) in June 2023. The contract expires on December 15, 2023, but it is already known that the contractor would default because it cannot source components from the EU.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Public information<\/h2>\n

In September 2023, The Insider, with reference to the Telegram channel of the public movement Udmurtia Against Corruption, reported<\/a> that the third shopping center in Izhevsk was being closed and floors being taken away from lease holders in order to house the production of military drones for the Russian Army.<\/p>\n

At the same time, it was reported that NPO IZHBS, a subsidiary of the Kalashnikov Group<\/a> relocated to the Novy Dom shopping center. In September, the company called for a recruitment of design and process engineers, as well as workers. Their newly minted social media page on VK (started in August) announced<\/a> the development of the Granat-4 drone.<\/p>\n

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The news did not go unnoticed in Ukraine and was interpreted by many analysts as a sign of a dramatic increase in drone production by Russia, supported at the state level.<\/p>\n

Russian government is certainly making large-scale efforts to provide its armed forces with an uninterrupted supply of drones. At the same time, the media and propaganda are publicly claiming that sanctions cannot impede this process in any way, and the import substitution policies help to successfully bypass the sanctions.<\/p>\n

We know from the open sources that Izhevsk Unmanned Systems Research And Production Associated LLC [Rus: \u041e\u041e\u041e \u00ab\u041d\u041f\u041e \u0418\u0436\u0435\u0432\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0435 \u0431\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0438\u043b\u043e\u0442\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0441\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0435\u043c\u044b\u00bb] was legally registered<\/a> in 2006 at the following legal address: Moscow, 2a Trofimova st., room. 221. Mikhail Korchigin [Rus.: \u041a\u043e\u0440\u0447\u0438\u0433\u0438\u043d \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0438\u043b \u041c\u0438\u0445\u0430\u0439\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447] has been the CEO of the company since May 15, 2023.<\/p>\n

The official website of the Ukrainian National Agency on Corruption Prevention sanctions.nazk.gov.ua<\/strong> lists NPO IZHBS<\/a> as subject to sanctions from the UK, USA, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

This open-source information will be useful for analyzing the documents not available to the public.<\/p>\n

Restricted information and documents<\/h2>\n

The public information suggests that sanctions do not work, since the company continues its activities and entire shopping centers are being vacated for the sake of its expansion in Izhevsk.<\/p>\n

However, the real state of affairs looks very different if we analyze the non-public documents.<\/p>\n


\nIn the array of documents exclusively obtained from Cyber Resistance hackivists, InformNapalm analysts found an interesting correspondence about government military contracts. We will not disclose the source email addresses, as the work on the data array continues, and hacktivists continue to control the hacked source systems. However, we can show a document that is of purely analytical interest and has no operational significance. The document answers the question “how do European sanctions actually work?” That is why we decided to make it public (<\/span>PDF<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n