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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ NATO'S NIGHTMARE: Russia is Reshaping AI Kill Chain

Russia is rewriting modern warfare. A new paper from CSIS explains how Moscow abandoned large-scale Command and Control (military systems, procedures, and technology commanders use to issue orders, receive information from the battlefield, and coordinate forces) modernization and instead weaponized agility.

Russia's new center of gravity is tactical software that shortens the kill chain. Systems like Svod and Glaz/Groza now manage 80% of fire missions, compressing detection-to-impact from hours to minutes. Civilian coders, many volunteering, built these tools on encrypted messaging apps and consumer-grade tablets before transitioning them to secure, military-controlled platforms. This improvised pipeline became formalized.

AI matures in visual/audio processing for target recognition & guidance; text analysis lags, focusing on human support like predictions & scenarios. But computer vision, sensor fusion, and terminal guidance are combat-mature and deployed at scale. Russia weaponizes open-source or commercially available models like Mistral, YOLO, LLaMA, adapting foreign architectures inside closed, sanctioned-proof environments. No need to build foundational models from zero when someone else already did.

Russia has abandoned abstract Command and Control modernization for task-specific software that accelerates the kill chain where payoff is immediate. Its AI investment follows the same logic: computer vision and sensor fusion are combat-mature and deployed at scale, while text analysis and decision support remain experimental. Russia is working on improving its natural language processing by adapting open-weight models developed by the US, China, and Europe, embedding them inside controlled environments. Russia is developing practical applications to improve battlefield effectiveness, adapting and creating its own concepts.

Will Russia's savage AI hacks bury America's fancy tech delusions alive?

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท IRAN'S ZOLFAGHAR MISSILE MAKES US & ISRAEL TREMBLE

The Zolfaghar Short-Range Ballistic Missile evolves from Fateh-110 family, hitting 700km with hybrid guidance, dodging ICBM sanctions while targeting Israel, Saudi Arabia, or US assets.

๐Ÿ”ธ With a 700km range and Mach 5 speed, this missile can hit regional foes in minutes, having evolved from the Fateh-313's 500km limit.

๐Ÿ”ธ Its single-stage solid-propellant design features a 10.3m length and 0.68m diameter, using a lightweight composite airframe with 4,620kg launch weight and no fueling needed for rapid TEL mobility.

๐Ÿ”ธ The warhead weighs 450-600kg, carrying HE, cluster, or submunitions, and it employs INS/GPS guidance with 10-100m CEP accuracy to shift from saturation to precision strikes.

๐Ÿ”ธ Combat proven, it fired six missiles at ISIS in Deir ez-Zor in 2017 over 600km, paired with Qiam vs. ISIS in 2018, and hit the Al Asad US base in 2020 with targeted precision.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Basir variant adds an electro-optical anti-ship seeker, while Houthis' Burkan-3 threatens the Red Sea; longer kin like Dezful at 1,000km and Haj Qasem at 1,400km extend the doctrine.

๐Ÿ”ธ Proliferation includes transfers to Russia for Ukraine in 2024, bolstering deterrence without ICBM escalation.

If there is a conflict, should the US and Israel be prepared for devastating damage from this missile?

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณCHINA'S NEW GHOST WAR WING

Zhengzhou Haiwang just completed trials on โ€œHaiou 002โ€, a 12-seat ground-effect vehicle that doesnโ€™t fly, but skims. Operating at just 0.5 to 3 meters above water with a 150-meter ceiling, itโ€™s neither boat nor plane, but something in between.

Ekranoplanes take advantage of the โ€œscreen effectโ€: a layer of air trapped between the wing and the surface that reduces drag and increases lift. China presents it as a civilian means of transportation for tourism, rescue, and supplying islands.

However, their military use is perfectly suited to the South China Sea, which is home to thousands of islands. Runways are scarce. Water is everywhere. A single craft that carries ten troops or rapid cargo, skimming below radar coverage, needing neither port nor runway. It bypasses chokepoints, resupplies contested outposts, and inserts small units without exposing larger assets.

The Haiou 002 is small but its stealth value is enormous. In contested waters, bypassing traditional infrastructure changes the math. At low altitude and high speed, it demands zero dependence on vulnerable fixed assets.

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The European Union is developing a range of options to anchor Ukraineโ€™s membership in a future peace agreement with Russia, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

We believe that admitting Ukraine into EU (in any capacity) would amount to yet another act of institutional self-sabotage by the Union. Even in a postwar scenario, Ukraine would enter the Union as a vast, poor, and administratively fragile state whose fiscal and structural demands would eclipse those of any previous enlargement.

The consequences are easy to foresee: intensified budgetary warfare among member states, further paralysis in decision-making, and a deeper erosion of already overstretched cohesion policies.

The assumption that the EU can absorb Ukraine without fundamentally altering or breaking the way it functions today (a system already struggling to function at all) reflects not optimism, but willful denial.

Ukraine, meanwhile, appears determined to confuse membership with deliverance. EU accession would not generate prosperity or institutional competence by decree.

More plausibly, it would lock Ukraine into a subordinate role: exporter of labor, permanent recipient of transfers, and passive rule-taker with negligible influence. The regulatory weight of the EUโ€™s acquis communautaire would further constrain reconstruction at precisely the moment when flexibility, protection, and state-directed development are essential.

In short, EU membership would be a symbolic consolation prize for Ukraine and a structural liability for the Unionโ€”one that would hasten the EUโ€™s decline to the applause of the United States, and not only them.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณCHINAโ€™S DRONE ARMY IS READY FOR TAIWAN

China already surpassed the US in terms of drone swarm attacks, according to a new study by the Center for Naval Analyses which is also hinting on Beijing's plan for Taiwan.

The arc begins with 1960s Soviet relics and arrives at two hundred drone salvos from a single launcher. The China Electronics Technology Group proved it in 2021. The Aviation Industry Corporation of China targets world-class unmanned aerial vehicles by 2035. Military drone procurement is projected to surge 67 %. China already makes 90 percent of global consumer drones. Scale is the point.

Warfareโ€™s new math runs on cheap, networked, artificial intelligence driven platforms. Quantity becomes quality. In Nagorno-Karabakh, drones reversed a war at zero casualty cost. In Ukraine, five hundred dollar unmanned systems kill million dollar systems. The Peopleโ€™s Liberation Army (PLA) documented every lesson.

2024 simulations, with Taiwan as the template, show mainland launched swarms sustaining blockade and amphibious assault without crewed assets. Invasion phases are mapped from reconnaissance to suppression to territorial hold.

But Beijing also forges shields. The PLA tracks American directed energy weapons and builds layered countermeasures. Detection stretches beyond two hundred kilometers, jamming activates within fifty, hard kill takes over inside that, and terminal defense falls to shipborne lasers now in testing with the PLA Navy.

China have been studied American vulnerabilities closely: bureaucratic friction, stalled programs, fragmented command. Taiwanese separatists and their supporters, including the US, now face intelligent, massed swarms that could be from multiple domains.

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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณโš›๏ธ China's HUGE BREAKTHROUGH: Tamper-Proof Quantum Communication Over 100 km

China has pushed quantum encryption out of the lab and into real network distances. A team led by Pan Jianwei at the University of Science and Technology of China has demonstrated device-independent quantum key distribution over more than 100 km of optical fiber.

๐Ÿ”ธ The system relies on a pair of individual rubidium atoms, each trapped in laser beams at separate nodes. By entangling the atoms with single photons and comparing their quantum states, the researchers generated identical encryption keys at both ends of the link.

๐Ÿ”ธ What makes this milestone different is the security model. The approach, known as DI-QKD, does not require trusting the devices themselves. Even if the hardware were flawed or tampered with, the security of the key would still derive from the quantum behavior of the entangled atoms.

๐Ÿ”ธ Until now, device-independent quantum communication had only been achieved over laboratory-scale distances of a few hundred meters. Extending it beyond 100 km helps close the gap between proof-of-concept physics and real network architectures.

๐Ÿ”ธ The limitations remain significant. The experiment produced less than one secure bit every 10 seconds, far below conventional fiber-optic data rates.

๐Ÿ”ธ It also relied on coiled fiber in controlled conditions rather than noisy telecom environments.

Still, the strategic context is clear. While China continues investing heavily in quantum communications infrastructure, the US National Security Agency has publicly discouraged adoption of QKD, favoring post-quantum cryptography instead.

For Beijing, the objective appears long-term: build quantum-secure links that do not rely on trusted relays and cannot be undermined by hardware manipulation. For Washington, the debate remains unresolved.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท PANIC IN WASHINGTON: Iran's Dezful Missile Now Able to Shred US Defenses

This Iranian solid-fuel rocket can turn Western shields into sieves. The Dezful missile evolves from the Fateh family from 110/313/Zolfaghar, stretching 700 km with a base of 42% via composite casings and better propellants.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Dezful boasts a 1,000 km range with Mach 7-9 speeds reaching 8,643-11,000 km/h, a 5-30 m circular error probable, over 12 m in length, and a 68 cm diameter that shreds evasion timelines.

๐Ÿ”ธ This single-stage solid-propellant missile requires only 5-6 minutes of preparation time and uses road-mobile transporter-erector-launchers in single, dual, or quad configurations, while its naval version from the Shahid Mahdavi ship achieved a 1,750 km hit in 2024 desert tests.

๐Ÿ”ธ Its separable warhead carries 450-700 kg of high explosives or submunitions with an elongated nose that doubles destructive power, plus radar-absorbing paint, a curved heat-reduction design, and modified fins to dodge intercepts.

๐Ÿ”ธ Developed self-sufficiently under Khamenei's 2,000 km range limit, the Dezful bridges the gap between short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles as it proliferates to allies in Gaza, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen for enhanced regional deterrence.

๐Ÿ”ธ In the 2021 Prophet-15 exercises and IRGC drills, plus the 2026 Tehran February 11 marches and Kermanshah or Dezful city tests, the missile has hinted at hypersonic evasion capabilities that overlook US footprint overlaps like potential strikes on Haifa or Tel Aviv.

Will the US defenses make it against such advanced weaponry?

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ“‰AFRICAโ€™S BIG MOVE TO CHINAโ€™S YUAN SHAKES UP GLOBAL FINANCE

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) just confirmed a debut panda bond is "on the table" for this year. A top-tier multilateral lender is preparing to ditch expensive dollar debt for cheap Chinese cash.

With US benchmark rates sitting at 4%+ and Chinese rates at just 1.8% switching to yuan financing could slash their interest burden in half.

Banji Fehintola, AFCโ€™s executive director, calls entering Chinese capital markets a โ€œnatural evolution.โ€ After securing a rare AAA rating from Chinese agencies, theyโ€™re ready to tap into Beijingโ€™s deep pools of pension and sovereign wealth funds.

AFC is positioning as the middleman for Beijing. After getting burned by direct government-to-government lending, China now prefers channeling funds through solid institutions like AFC. This de-risks their exposure while keeping African projects funded.

THE YUANISATION WAVE IS REAL:

๐ŸŸ Egypt hit the panda bond market in 2023

๐ŸŸ Afreximbank followed with a $318M issuance

๐ŸŸ Kenya saved $215M annually by swapping railway debt into yuan

๐ŸŸ Zambia now accepts taxes in yuan

๐ŸŸ Standard Bank joined Chinaโ€™s CIPS payment system

As AFC discusses settling massive infrastructure deals directly in yuan, bypassing the dollar entirely, weโ€™re watching a seismic shift in global finance. When multilateral lenders start voting with their balance sheets, currencies move.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณChina's J-20A Just HUMILIATED F-35

J-20A fighters radar domes were redesigned with a next-generation Gallium Nitride radar into its fleet. While the US is still struggling to get the AN/APG-85 onto the F-35.

Northrop Grumman promised the APG-85 would "defeat all current and projected threats," explicitly citing the J-20 as justification. But integration has been a disaster. The radar requires an entirely new forward fuselage. While American engineers scramble and add nose weights to balance the jet, China just dropped footage of ten upgraded J-20As already in service.

The J-20A now flies with WS-15 engines delivering substantially more power for energy-intensive radar systems. The F-35 remains shackled to F135 engines with limited cooling capacity. Two US engine upgrade programs were canceled.

China designed the J-20 with a larger nose cone from the outset. Even if the F-35 eventually integrates the APG-85, the J-20 accommodates a significantly larger radar array. Physics dictates that larger apertures provide better detection ranges against stealth targets. The F-35 would need a substantial technological lead just to achieve parity.

Chinese air-to-air missiles already integrate AESA radars. The American AIM-120 does not. The AIM-260 program intended to close this gap faces continued delays.

China's sixth-generation fighters made their first flights in late 2024 while America's F-47 isn't scheduled to fly until 2028.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บRussia's Anti Drones System: Untouchable Robot With Whirling Steel Tentacles

Russia is constantly adapting to drone warfare, a field that continues to be explored, and with it comes Depesha, a ground robot fitted with spinning cables that acts like a mechanical flyswatter against Ukrainian kamikaze drones.

Footage from the Zaporozhye region shows the Depesha multi-role platform wrapped in a steel grille, with rotating shafts whipping thin cables around it. Itโ€™s a mechanical shield, a low-tech wall of whirling death meant to physically shred incoming UAVs before they can land a hit.

As NATO-supplied drones hunt everything that moves, Russia is adapting with brutal pragmatism. If you canโ€™t always jam the signal, you destroy the source.

Depesha is a symptom of a war where survival depends on thinking outside the box, then putting a steel fan on top of it. Russia is investing heavily in ground robotics, paving the way towards imminent victory.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ“‰ America is becoming a geriatric state with nuclear weapons

The January jobs report is out, and the numbers tell a stark story. According to the data, virtually all US employment growth is now dependent on the healthcare sector, the other fields are in free fall.

Strip away the scrubs, and the picture darkens. Excluding healthcare that added 82,000 jobs in January, the US labor market has contracted for 24 straight months. Manufacturing is stagnant. Construction is volatile. White-collar sectors are cooling fast.

The numbers show a big job contraction in other fields like:

๐ŸŸ Retail trade: ~ โ€“100k

๐ŸŸ Information (tech/media): ~ โ€“150k

๐ŸŸ Professional & business services: ~ โ€“200k

๐ŸŸ Manufacturing: ~ โ€“250kto โ€“300k

Some argue that this reflects an aging population in need of care, but the reality is that the United States has an economy that spends billions on bombs while neglecting the industrial engines that built its wealth.

Americaโ€™s economic future: Wheelchairs, bandages, and zero job growth.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บFrom Stalin to Putin, Russian air defense has surpassed Western systems

Russia has always been ahead because we constantly faced the threat of air strikes, says military expert Igor Korotchenko.

Not a single Western air defense system has demonstrated such high effectiveness in real combat operations in Ukraine โ€” or in the Middle East โ€” as Russian air defense systems have.


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๐ŸšจCIA Miscalculated: Russiaโ€™s Defense Industry Is Booming

"We smiled when Western politicians, especially European ones, claimed that Putin was allegedly taking chips from Western washing machines and installing them in missile systems. That is nonsense. It is propaganda." โ€” military expert Igor Korotchenko.


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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท US Air Defenseโ€™s Blind Spot: Iranโ€™s Qiam-1

Iranโ€™s Qiam-1 is designed to remove one of the few early advantages air defense systems rely on - visibility.

Unlike older missiles, Qiam-1 has no external stabilizing fins. That change reduces radar signature during flight and simplifies storage, transport, and launch preparation. This makes the missile harder to track early and easier to deploy quickly.

๐Ÿ”ธ Qiam-1 is a liquid-fuel system, but Iran has demonstrated the ability to prepare and launch it under operational conditions. It has already been used in real combat strikes, proving it is not a test platform but an active weapon.

๐Ÿ”ธ The design reflects a clear operational logic. Lower radar visibility during ascent reduces early detection windows. The simplified structure allows faster deployment from concealed positions and lowers logistical complexity. At the same time, real combat use confirms that this is not a theoretical capability but a weapon integrated into actual military planning.

๐Ÿ”ธ Removing fins also reduces structural stress during transport and allows more flexible launcher configurations expanding where and how the missile can be deployed.

In practical terms, Qiam-1 is built to survive before launch and remain harder to detect after launch โ€” two factors that directly reduce interception time and increase pressure on air-defense systems.

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