MBDA has been awared $422m to install 50 kW DragonFire lasers aboard 4 Royal Navy destroyers by 2027:
https://t.co/k7mxp0WwzH
These were recently tested against 650 km/h drones at sea.
It'll be the first European 'high power laser weapon' in service.
First good look at a Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo heavyweight cruise missile on a combat mission, seen here having already penetrated almost 1000 km into Russian airspace.
At least two of the 40-foot-long missiles hit Russia's VNIIR Progress electronics plant this morning.
This mining at operational depth is a new development in Ukraine's long-standing campaign of tactical precision mining of Russian logistical routes near the frontlines using heavy bomber drones such as the “Vampire”.
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The Russians have recovered cassettes containing either 48 or 10 landmines of the IBM anti-vehicle/anti-personnel series.
These devices are equipped with “PDP” movement-sensitive fuzes and are powerful enough to immobilize vehicles, leaving them easy targets for strike UAVs.
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Tomorrow, I will publish a long detailed thread about the ukrainian middle strike. I mapped more than 1 000 strikes since january.
I start getting tired and every time i open X I see that geolocators (@moklasen@99Dominik_@neonhandrail... thanks to them !) found new destroyed trucks for the map...
I will put everything throughClaude to have detailed statistics later, I still have 13 days of march with tons of geos to add...
#NEWS: We have been awarded an Active Protection System (APS) program of record by the US Army, equipping ground vehicles with advanced electronic warfare capabilities.
The program leverages our ROOK system to disrupt and defeat incoming threats, including unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and anti-tank guided missiles, enhancing crew and vehicle survivability and mission effectiveness.
Learn more at https://t.co/0PLWO7Jyrv.
The funny thing is people rate their own economic circumstances far more favorably now than they did during the Great Recession. This lines up with the data. It's the external economy that rates poorly. Explanations that rely on people not doing well individually don't fit.