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Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range
Ukraine Uses High-Altitude Balloons To Extend Suicide Drone Strike Range
Ukrainian forces have borrowed a page from China's hypersonic glide-weapon testing and applied it to the Eastern European theater, using one-way attack drones against Russia.
Instead of launching the Hornet strike drone from a ground-based catapult, Ukrainian operators tethered it to a high-altitude balloon, extending its range.
Defense news website Defense Blog reports:
The test, details of which circulated through Ukrainian military channels, involved a Hornet manufactured by Perennial Autonomy being dropped from a balloon at approximately 8 kilometers altitude after the aerostat...
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Authored by Sujita Sinha via Interesting Engineering,
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Germany's first F-35 reaches a key production milestone as its powerful F135 engine is installed.Lockheed Martin Europe/X
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Artificial intelligence is set to significantly alter hiring patterns at JPMorgan Chase & Co., according to CEO Jamie Dimon, who said the bank expects to recruit more AI-focused talent while reducing reliance on some conventional banking roles over time, according to Bloomberg.
During a Bloomberg Television interview at the firm’s China Summit in Shanghai, Dimon acknowledged the long-term impact AI is likely to have on employment across the industry. “I think it will reduce our jobs...
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