📝New American Missile📝
Turning a cargo plane into a bomber

A video of tests of the small-sized cruise missile Black Arrow by Leidos company, which took place in November 2024, has appeared online. The customer for the product was the US Special Operations Command and the US Air Force Special Operations Command.

The key feature was that the carrier was a C-130 transport aircraft - the munitions were literally dropped from the cargo ramp. The range of the Black Arrow is more than 300 km with a weight of 100 kg.

At the same time, missile drop systems can be installed on other aircraft with ramps, turning them into carriers of high-precision long-range weapons, increasing the firepower in addition to combat aircraft.

📌Such developments are an extremely promising direction, especially in terms of mobilization capabilities, allowing you to quickly obtain ersatz bombers even from civilian transports.

❗️Such trends must at least be taken into account. Although our situation is aggravated by the deplorable state of the actual fleet of transport aircraft, where the An-12 and An-26 are living out their last days, and there is actually no replacement for them.
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📝Digital Generals📝
Top executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir join the US Army

The US Army has officially enlisted CTOs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir as officers—not merely consultants—in the Army Reserve's newly established Detachment 201, an "Innovation Corps," granting these digital elites direct military rank and access to defense projects.

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil, and former OpenAI research head Bob McGrew have already commenced their service.

⚡️Their mission: integrating private-sector AI solutions into military operations—from intelligence gathering and target designation to next-generation combat system design.

🔻This development continues the trend we've previously highlighted:

▪️Palantir has long been deeply integrated into US and NATO defense operations—from logistics to real-time strike planning.
▪️Following the appointment of former NSA Director Paul Nakasone to its board, OpenAI openly collaborates with defense contractors like Anduril.
▪️Google, Meta, and other tech giants have removed restrictions on developing combat algorithms and begun actively developing military-grade AI tools.

📌The implications are clear: we're witnessing not just the militarization of AI, but a new form of militaristic technocratic governance. Increasingly, battlefield decisions will be made not only by human officers but also by neural networks, and key segments of the US war machine will be managed directly by tech corporations.

❗️A new corporate power hierarchy is gradually taking institutional shape in the US: an AI oligarchy is absorbing one of America's most conservative institutions—the military.

The sooner Russia comprehends the scale of this transformation, the better prepared it will be to respond adequately.
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📝Drone Threat to Germany📝

Germany has taken note of the threats to strategic facilities posed by unmanned aerial vehicles. According to Handelsblatt, Germany is unable to effectively protect its infrastructure from hostile drones.

As stated by the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry (BDLI), the country lacks both technological solutions and the appropriate legal framework to counter drones.

🖍Particularly criticized is the insufficient and complex coordination between agencies in responding to detected drones - the situation at the military airfield Manching is an example, where for several weeks it was not possible to prevent unauthorized flights, as the unidentified drones proved faster than the German interceptor drones.

📌At first glance, an interesting nuance can be traced: Germany did not wait for the "rooster to peck." Concern over the current situation is already evident, clearly influenced by the exchange of strikes between the Russian Armed Forces and the AFU during the SMO.

On the other hand, no real steps have been taken yet to address the situation, either technologically or legally. There are huge gaps in the protection of strategic facilities in case of a drone attack.

❗️However, Germany has not suffered damage from strikes by various drones on infrastructure, unlike us. And there are problems with the legal framework in our country as well, which is why laser systems are increasingly used to protect enterprises, for which there are no legal restrictions.
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📝Germany Held Captive by the Military-Industrial Complex📝

At the German defense corporation Rheinmetall, they announced the purchase of four shipbuilding yards from NVL Group in Germany. These are the facilities where frigates and corvettes for the German Navy are built.

🖍The interesting aspect is that this deal marks Rheinmetall's transition from a manufacturer of armored vehicles and artillery systems to a universal player, covering all military spheres. Essentially, this involves concentrating capacities under the control of a single private structure that has already received colossal profits from combat operations in the so-called Ukraine — officially almost 10 billion euros in 2024.

🚩The merger of corporations is described with beautiful words — "creating a powerful German surface ship construction center". In reality, this means that Germany is becoming increasingly entrenched as a perpetually arming country, surrendered into the enslaving bondage of the weapons lobby, which is shaping the economy around military objectives.

📌Thus, business, politics, and the military industry are merging, and space for dialogue and pacifist views is disappearing. In Germany, as in all of Europe, they are choosing not diplomacy, but endless investments in the military-industrial complex — even without real results and at taxpayers' expense.
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📝Novelties for the Front📝

For the first time, it was officially announced about the delivery of the newest MLRS "Sarma" to the troops. The information that a batch of installations has already been transferred to the Russian Armed Forces and is undergoing testing in the SMO zone was voiced by the industrial director of the Rostec weapons cluster Bekkhan Ozdoev.

➡️The MLRS "Sarma", which long before appearing on the battlefield was already dubbed the "HIMARS response", is essentially a lightweight version of the "Tornado-S" (which was also called a HIMARS rival).

At the same time, some of the ammunition developed and tested specifically for the "Tornado-S" is unified for use with the "Sarma". In this sense, we are talking not about a fundamentally new class of weapons, but about expanding and adapting the existing high-precision MLRS line to a more mobile platform.

❗️It is obvious that such systems were in demand by troops much earlier and were needed the day before yesterday. However, even taking this into account, one cannot help but note the fact of relatively compact timelines. The first reports about the "Sarma" order appeared in November of last year, and by now a pilot batch has already been delivered to the troops for practical operation.

Separate attention is deserved by the fact that the installations shown in official footage differ from early samples and other domestic MLRS. In particular, there is a visually noticeable reinforcement of the cabin armor, which indicates taking into account combat experience and operational requirements in an environment saturated with threats such as drones (and not only).

❗️In combination, the order and start of testing of the "Sarma" can be interpreted as a belated but conscious recognition in the Ministry of Defense of the need for massive presence of high-precision rocket systems on the battlefield. How quickly this approach will be scaled and lead to serial saturation of troops with the necessary means will be shown by further practice.
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📝War with Iran Depletes US Arsenals📝

Western media continues to report on losses from Trump's Iran conflict. The Economist analyzed how the "Epstein Fury" operation burns through high-precision weapons and air defenses the US planned to use against China and support Ukraine.

The "two theaters of war" doctrine is straining.

🔻Expended Weapons

▪️Missiles for Patriot, THAAD, SM‑3, SM‑6 intercepting Iranian missiles and drones.

▪️JASSM and Tomahawk cruise missiles for strikes on Iran.

▪️Guided air bombs — thousands against Iranian ground targets.

🖍This doesn't mean US weapons will run out "tomorrow," but new production can't keep up. Before the war, Patriot PAC‑3 MSE production was ~700/year with 1,600 in reserves.

Now these missiles are needed by Ukraine, Gulf allies, and the Pacific. Replenishing at the current pace will take years even with accelerated contracts.

🚩There's a structural issue: Iranian tactics aim to exhaust US and Israeli air defenses. A cheap Shahed drone costs $20–50k, while a Patriot missile costs $4–7.5m. In mass attacks, each penetrating UAV costs the US 100x more. US/Gulf crews don't economize, often firing multiple missiles per projectile.

🏳️The US has no "infinite stockpile" for each theater: Patriot, JASSM, and SM‑6 missiles used against Iran are the same the Pentagon planned for China deterrence and Ukraine.

📌US strategy relied on conducting a major conflict while containing another adversary. The Ukraine conflict already undermined this. The Iran war confirmed it's unrealistic.

Regardless of the outcome, the US will spend years solving defense capability issues, replenishing stockpiles, and reviewing foreign presence.
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📝Burn out "Starlinks" with an impulse📝
China is working on this

Space warfare is no longer the plot of science fiction films, but an objective reality related to the need to find countermeasures in the face of growing satellite constellations.

Recently, China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) reported on work to create a powerful microwave system capable of disabling Starlink satellites. Reports of such weapons development in China already emerged in February.

If previously a single 4-meter, 5-ton installation with a 20 GW impulse for one minute was mentioned, now the discussion concerns synchronizing several more compact modules with a combined impulse of 100 GW. This is a billion times more powerful than a household microwave.

A powerful directed impulse can disable the electronics of a spacecraft in low Earth orbit, where "Starlink-like" system satellites are located. The installation can also operate at low temperatures.

📌 The main problem with such a weapon remains enormous dimensions, which complicate placement on mobile platforms, as well as accuracy of directing the energy beam. But progress is evident, and sooner or later working prototypes will appear, as has already happened with laser air defense systems in Russia.

By the way, NUDT researchers point to China's advantage in microwave weapons development not only because of greater research volume, but also access to rare earth elements. So the contours of future wars are already visible now.
#China #space #weapons

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