🚨 A new DARPA patent shows the U.S. military exploring AI sniper systems that stay completely undetectable.
The key? Solving wind estimation for long-range shots without any signals or emissions that could reveal the shooter.
Surprisingly, it relies on a simple string. Here’s the breakdown:
#DARPA #DefenseTech #Sniper
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Bottom line: After billions invested in AI, sensors, and advanced optics, one of the latest concepts for stealthy long-range shooting ultimately centers on watching how the wind moves a piece of string.
The patent shows how far the Pentagon is willing to push AI into niche battlefield problems — sometimes landing on surprisingly simple answers.
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🚨 A new DARPA patent shows the U.S. military exploring AI sniper systems that stay completely undetectable.
The key? Solving wind estimation for long-range shots without any signals or emissions that could reveal the shooter.
Surprisingly, it relies on a simple string. Here’s the breakdown:
#DARPA #DefenseTech #Sniper
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♦️ Cameras and microphones collect this information, while AI embedded in the sight analyzes the data in real time to estimate wind conditions and generate firing solutions.
♦️ The broader goal extends beyond the string itself. By training on large datasets, the AI could eventually learn to recognize atmospheric conditions from visual distortions, vegetation movement, dust patterns, or other environmental cues without requiring physical markers.
♦️ In theory, this would allow precision shooters to estimate wind and atmospheric effects while maintaining complete radio, laser, and emission silence.
According to Iran’s Mehr News this is the MOU between US and #Iran:
1. Permanent and immediate cessation of war on all fronts, including Lebanon.
2. The US commitment to non-interference in Iran's internal affairs and respect for the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
3. Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days.
4. The US commitment to withdraw its forces from around Iran.
5. Reopening of the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days under Iranian arrangements.
6. Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products, and derivatives, and full access of Iran to its financial resources.
7. The necessity for the US and its allies to present reconstruction plans for Iran amounting to at least 300 billion dollars.
8. 60 days of negotiations to reach a final agreement based on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of primary, secondary, US sanctions, and UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions.
9. Reiteration of Iran's commitment under the NPT treaty not to produce nuclear weapons.
10. During the negotiation period, the US has committed not to add forces in the region and not to impose new sanctions.
11. Release of 24 billion dollars of Iran's blocked funds during the 60-day final negotiation period. Half of this amount must be made available to Iran before the start of negotiations.
12. Formation of a supervisory mechanism to implement the agreement.
13. The final agreement will be approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
14. Final negotiations will not begin before the release of half of Iran's blocked funds, suspension of Iran's oil sanctions, and lifting of the naval blockade, and the final agreement will only cover the fate of enriched materials and enrichment, lifting of sanctions, and Iran's economic reconstruction plan.
#IranWar
@Telegraph@Sheff36 Since Thatcher, Britain had a string of ever dumber PMs so their ruinous rule is at a point that not even dumber than Starmer wants his spot even tho he is a political corpse — facilitated of course by the Royal family of Windsor
Is Turkey overstretching?
Not just picking a brawl with France over Cyprus but also grooming Balkan militant jihadists among Albanian & Bosnian population
Worse yet, Turkey is exporting their excess militants out of Syria into Africa. Their proxy fight with UAE in Sudan is mostly won & that brutality will now go across Africa
https://t.co/M3xiJty2ff
Turkey is shipping Syrian terrorist proxy fighters to Africa — and Ankara is openly eyeing total control of the Sahel
Turkey is quietly recruiting fighters from its own proxy militias in northern Syria.
The targets include the notorious, Western-sanctioned groups Al-Hamzat and Al-Amshat — the same factions accused of war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and terror ties.
Ankara is offering them fat paychecks: $1,500 to $1,800 per month, plus fat compensation packages if they get wounded or killed.
For fighters stuck in Syria’s economic hell, that money is impossible to turn down.
The destination?
The chaotic Sahel region — specifically Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
Turkey has already poured billions into the area: bases, mines, infrastructure deals, and political alliances.
But instead of sending its own soldiers, Ankara is using the same dirty playbook it perfected in Syria and Libya: Syrian mercenaries as disposable muscle.
These proxies will guard Turkish-owned mines, oil fields, roads, and military outposts.
It’s cheaper. It’s deniable. And if the bodies pile up, they’re not Turkish bodies.
This isn’t new.
Turkey already flooded Libya with thousands of Syrian fighters. It did the same in Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Now the model is going continental.
Reports from 2024 already showed hundreds — possibly over a thousand — Syrian mercenaries heading to Niger under identical contracts.
In plain English: Turkey is exporting its private jihadist army to Africa.
It’s building a shadow empire on the cheap, using the same radicalized proxies it once unleashed on its own borders.
And while the West argues about pronouns and pronouns, Ankara is carving out a new sphere of influence across an entire unstable continent — one fighter jet and one mercenary paycheck at a time.
#TurkeyInAfrica #Sahel #SyrianMercenaries #ProxyWar
Turkey is shipping Syrian terrorist proxy fighters to Africa — and Ankara is openly eyeing total control of the Sahel
Turkey is quietly recruiting fighters from its own proxy militias in northern Syria.
The targets include the notorious, Western-sanctioned groups Al-Hamzat and Al-Amshat — the same factions accused of war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and terror ties.
Ankara is offering them fat paychecks: $1,500 to $1,800 per month, plus fat compensation packages if they get wounded or killed.
For fighters stuck in Syria’s economic hell, that money is impossible to turn down.
The destination?
The chaotic Sahel region — specifically Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso.
Turkey has already poured billions into the area: bases, mines, infrastructure deals, and political alliances.
But instead of sending its own soldiers, Ankara is using the same dirty playbook it perfected in Syria and Libya: Syrian mercenaries as disposable muscle.
These proxies will guard Turkish-owned mines, oil fields, roads, and military outposts.
It’s cheaper. It’s deniable. And if the bodies pile up, they’re not Turkish bodies.
This isn’t new.
Turkey already flooded Libya with thousands of Syrian fighters. It did the same in Azerbaijan during the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Now the model is going continental.
Reports from 2024 already showed hundreds — possibly over a thousand — Syrian mercenaries heading to Niger under identical contracts.
In plain English: Turkey is exporting its private jihadist army to Africa.
It’s building a shadow empire on the cheap, using the same radicalized proxies it once unleashed on its own borders.
And while the West argues about pronouns and pronouns, Ankara is carving out a new sphere of influence across an entire unstable continent — one fighter jet and one mercenary paycheck at a time.
#TurkeyInAfrica #Sahel #SyrianMercenaries #ProxyWar
Israeli official to i24NEWS:
"Everyone is living off Trump's posts right now. We need to hear what the Iranians announce before knowing whether the president's assessment is actually accurate. Experience suggests that's not always the case."
Israeli Channel 12 cites official saying Israel is unaware of any deal and are puzzled by Donald Trump's claim that Iran's leadership has approved one.
They can’t even build one fighter jet together — yet they want to confront Russia?
After nearly a decade of hype, summits, and €100 billion in promises, France and Germany have officially killed their next-generation fighter jet project.
Launched in 2017 by Macron and Merkel as the crown jewel of European defense cooperation, the FCAS was meant to rival America and bind Airbus + Dassault together.
Instead, it collapsed in a blaze of infighting over leadership, workshare, intellectual property, and technical specs.
Even Macron and Chancellor Friedrich Merz couldn’t save it.
The timing is brutal: Europe screams about rearmament and “strategic autonomy” from the US, while its two biggest powers can’t agree on a single aircraft.
In a delicious twist, Germany’s IG Metall union welcomed the failure — putting German jobs and industry above the grand European dream.
Bottom line: Europe’s biggest threat isn’t Russia.
It’s Europe itself.
#geopolitocs #europe #ukraine
SHOCKING ESCALATION IN THE GULF OF OMAN
US forces reportedly attacked an Indian tanker in the Gulf of Oman, according to CENTCOM
while ostensibly enforcing open Hormuz from Iran blockade
♦️An American aircraft allegedly struck the vessel's engine room with precision-guided munitions after the crew repeatedly refused military orders.
♦️#India has summoned the US Chargé d'Affaires and lodged a formal protest over the incident.
♦️New Delhi previously condemned the strike, while reports indicate that 3 sailors remain missing and 21 crew members were rescued.
The incident threatens to spark a major diplomatic crisis between Washington and New Delhi as questions mount over what led to the attack.
People should not assume that what’s going on in Albania is spontaneous people led protest
EU and Italy specifically has strategic interest in keeping Kushner away from acquiring a military island under tourist pretext given that he was offered privileged business access to Gaza removed of Palestinians
He could grant that privilege to Israel after acquiring the island