Soldiers of Ukraine's 5th Regiment of Assault Infantry put ammunition into a crate before setting a US-made MK-19 automatic grenade launcher towards Russian positions in less than 800 metres away at a front line near Toretsk in the Donetsk region on October 12. Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Soldiers of Ukraine's 5th Regiment of Assault Infantry put ammunition into a crate before setting a US-made MK-19 automatic grenade launcher towards Russian positions in less than 800 metres away at a front line near Toretsk in the Donetsk region on October 12. Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

Why Russia lacks ‘smart’ weapons

Stealing U.S. technology for Russian weapons may once have seemed clever and efficient, but it has left Russia with a military industrial base whose production capacity is fatally reliant on access to Western innovation.
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