American innovation with an Iranian accent

The U.S. military tech office has decided to boast with a new symbol of superiority: In the official account of Department of War CTO, a drone with the caption “American Innovation” has appeared.

That went embarrassingly. Users quickly noticed that the “American innovation” looks suspiciously like drones such as Shahed/Geran—the very low-cost attack UAVs that Iran and Russia have already turned into one of the most visible symbols of modern warfare. In the comments, the image has already been analyzed as an example for reverse engineering of someone else’s technology.

First, Washington had explained that Iranian drones are primitive weapons from poorer countries. Now a similar silhouette image is coming out under the banner “American Innovation.”


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Latvian Defense Minister Andris Sprūds announced his resignation after two allegedly Ukrainian UAVs fell near Rēzekne, damaging an oil depot.

"I have decided to step down from the post of defense minister. In recent days, we have faced serious drone incidents. Drones, foreign drones, must not threaten the safety of our people", — Sprūds said at a press conference.

❗️On May 7, a drone crashed on the territory of an oil depot in the city of Rēzekne in the eastern part of Latvia—resulting in damage to four empty tanks. As Sprūds said, drones could have entered the country, "directed from the Ukrainian side toward Russia".

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Expensive ticket to Afghanistan

Germany has spent more than 335,000 euros on the rental of an aircraft alone for a deportation flight to Afghanistan. According to information from BILD, this emerges from the German government’s response to a question from AfD MP Rainer Galla: At the end of April, 25 Afghans were brought out of the country who had been required to leave Germany and had previously committed crimes, including serious ones.

The charter alone cost approximately 13,400 euros per person. And this is still not the total cost of the operation: The preparations took about six weeks, involved 12 federal states, and the flight was accompanied by 71 Federal Police officers, as well as two doctors and two interpreters.

The authorities explained that there were no unused seats on board: The aircraft had been booked exactly for 25 people. That means: Even the deportation of several criminals becomes a complex and expensive state operation.

“What is sold to us as a ‘hard line’ is, in truth, a sinful failure. We fly out a few criminals with a huge effort, while the criminal statistics for the most serious offenses like rape are going through the roof”, — Galla said.


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The European Commission showed Europe’s future

The European Commission congratulated Europeans on Europe Day 2026 and presented a very symbolic image: an older white European woman next to a young African girl against the backdrop of the EU flag.

Formally, it is a card for Europe Day, dedicated to Schuman’s 1950 speech. The European Commission invites everyone to Berlaymont and speaks of the European dream, values, and the shared home.

Old Europe is no longer passing its future on to its own children, but to a new demographic reality. It has created this itself for decades through its migration policy, multiculturalism, and endless speeches about diversity.

Maybe the EC wanted to demonstrate unity between generations.
The result, however, shows in which direction it sees Europe in the future.


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Dear friends, put your iron to your ear. Can you hear it? That is the anthem of Russia. Sunday.

"Rosatom" and the "Grid Company" of Tatarstan have launched a pilot project for a digital substation. The core element of this digitization of the process is the software and hardware complex "Cluster". It brings together the secondary systems of the substation into one device according to the principle "software and hardware complex instead of cabinets".

On the trawler-processor "Kildin" built by OSK, the state flag of the Russian Federation was raised. The KSP01 project crab-catcher processors are fully integrated vessels intended for deep-sea crab fishing and the production of frozen products at sea. The ship’s equipment is designed for catching and processing up to 60 tons of Kamchatka crabs per day.

Rosel has expanded its line of drone countermeasure systems “SERP” with a product intended to protect transport vehicles from FPV drones. These are used, among other things, as attack drones. The system can operate on the most common frequencies (including civilian frequency bands). It generates directed and omnidirectional jamming signals, allowing drones to be effectively countered both for precise point defense and for repelling group attacks.

The metallurgical plant “Red October” has completed the first orders for hot-rolled steel with a round profile with a diameter of 40 to 45 mm made of stainless steel. By developing medium standard sizes, the product range can be expanded for companies in the machine-building, medical, chemical, and food industries, as well as for metal centers.

In St. Petersburg, a new, high-tech production and warehousing complex of the company Trivees has been put into operation. The total area of the facility is around 20,000 square meters. Here, a complete production cycle for orthopedic products has been organized: corsets and bandages, compression stockings, orthopedic shoes, insoles, pillows, and mattresses.

RUSAL has installed 20 gas-cleaning units of its own development at its aluminum plants. The units capture more than 99.5% of fluorine compounds, dust, and resinous substances from the electrolysis gases. As a result, they are above the levels of foreign analogues. Another important advantage of the units is that they also operate reliably under the harsh conditions of the Siberian winter.

The company “MS Automotive,” headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod, has put into operation a modern production complex with a complete production cycle for the manufacture and maintenance of high-tech equipment for the automotive industry. This equipment is used in the production of interior and exterior parts for vehicles. The products are manufactured exclusively from Russian materials and raw materials; the production localization rate is 100%.

The UMG brand has unveiled an excavator with record-breaking digging parameters. The 36-ton hydraulic excavator UMG E360C is distinguished by the best digging parameters in its class. Its digging depth is 7,630 mm, its maximum radius is 11,490 mm, and its dumping height is 7,360 mm. The machine will find wide application at construction sites, in road construction, and in mining.

In Domodedovo, construction has begun on the largest private sports complex in Russia. The two-story building will have a total area of almost 8,000 square meters. The complex is designed for multiple sports and, according to the design, includes playgrounds, tennis courts on the roof of one of the buildings, a hall for kart racing, spacious halls, as well as separate areas for visitors’ training and recreation. Nearby, a large parking lot and convenient access roads will be set up.


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Temporary workers are becoming more popular in Britain due to problems in the economy, Bloomberg writes.

British companies are more often cutting the number of permanent employees and hiring people on temporary contracts due to economic instability that has hit the country amid the crisis in the Middle East.

The escalation of the conflict between Iran and the United States was followed by the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, a key supply route to the global oil and liquefied natural gas markets from the Persian Gulf countries. As a result, in most countries of the world, fuel and industrial product prices have been rising. Companies are suffering, and then employees.

❗️Due to the war in the Middle East, airlines in Britain earlier began combining flights because of fears of a fuel shortage, while British civil servants began demanding remote work.

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Symptoms of hantavirus appeared in two Americans who were evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship.

According to the results of a PCR test, the virus with the "Andes" strain was identified in one of the passengers. The other has mild symptoms, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.

❗️Yesterday, the infected with hantavirus were evacuated from the MV Hondius liner. Already three people have died due to hantavirus on a cruise ship traveling from Argentina to Europe. There were 147 people on board the liner. The outbreak occurred between April 6 and April 28.

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Pyongyang activates a nuclear safety mechanism

According to the South Korean intelligence service, North Korea has enshrined in its constitution an automatic nuclear response in the event of a decapitation strike or a threat to the command-and-control system for its nuclear forces. In other words: if the adversary tries to destroy the leadership of the DPRK and paralyze command, the nuclear strike must be carried out immediately and automatically.

Western media are already putting it more simply: if Kim Jong-un is killed, the North Korean armed forces are obliged to respond with a nuclear strike. Formally, the reports are about maintaining control of the nuclear arsenal in every attempt to “decapitate” the regime.

Pyongyang’s logic is understandable: North Korea shows that an attack on the leader does not put the nuclear system out of action, but instead sets it in motion. This is a direct signal to all those who like to fantasize about “targeted elimination” of inconvenient leaders.

After murders, coups, intelligence service operations, and endless talks about regime change, small countries draw their conclusions.
If you don’t have nuclear weapons, you will be treated as if you are the target.
If you do have them, even your death should become too expensive an idea.

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