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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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Chinese Nationals Among 51 Indicted Over Marijuana Grow Operations In Oklahoma
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Authored by Michael Clements via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A Department of Homeland Security investigation has resulted in the indictment of 51 defendants—including 29 Chinese nationals—on 67 counts of conspiracy to manufacture black-market marijuana in Oklahoma for distribution in Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, and North Carolina, among other locales.
Oklahoma drug enforcement agent Mike Garcia looks over rows of marijuana plants at an illegal grow facility in Ponca City, Okla, on Dec. 22, 2025. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times
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Less Than Half Of Health Care Workers Received An Updated COVID-19 Vaccine: CDC
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Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
A minority of health care workers received an updated COVID-19 vaccine, according to a newly reported survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Just 40.2 percent of health care personnel who responded to the survey said they received a COVID-19 shot between the fall of 2024 and early 2025, CDC researchers said on April 2.
The rate of vaccination was higher, 76.3 percent, for influenza.
The survey was conducted online from...
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