The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) welcomes two new Gripen fighters, thus expanding its fleet of next-generation combat aircraft.
Brazil: Air Force receives more fighters
The FAB confirms the arrival of two Saab Gripen fighters, FAB registration numbers 4105 and 4106, which arrived by sea at the port of Navegantes on May 5. Like their predecessors, they will be transported by ground to the local airport for commissioning before heading to the Gripen Flight Test Center (GFTC) in Gavião Peixoto, Sao Paulo.
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The Department of Defense and National Science Foundation are jointly funding a new research institute dedicated to better understanding functions of the human brain and how they could could influence the designs of artificial intelligence.
Called the AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence (ARNI), the new effort will bring together researchers from across the country to discover the connections between neuroscience, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, according to an NSF announcement.
In response to recent terrorist threats, the Indian Navy will deploy MARCOS and NSG “black cat” commandos during the upcoming G-20 meetings in Srinagar, Kashmir.
Indian Navy in action
MARCOS commandos, specialized in maritime operations, and elite NSG commandos will join local and foreign security forces to ensure the protection of international dignitaries at the event.
India aims to present the Kashmir Valley as a major tourist destination, countering the perception of the region as a zone of conflict and terrorism.
Wagner screencap
Ukraine’s Armed Forces are not buying into the head of the Wagner mercenary group’s emotional screed threatening to pull out of Bakhmut next week due to a lack of ammunition. In an impassioned address apparently delivered near the battlefield, Yevgeny Prigozhin said his troops were thrown into the “Bakhmut Meat Grinder” and then abandoned by “near-military bureaucrats” who cut off the ammunition flow and “sit and shake their fat bellies and think that they will go down in history as winners.
BALTIMORE, Md. — After designing its initial warfighting platform – strung together with disparate systems from each of the services – U.S. Cyber Command is looking to build out the next generation.
The Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA) was designed in 2019 to get a better handle on the capabilities, platforms and programs the command was designing, and set priorities for the Department of Defense as well as the industry partners that would be building them.
Wagner Group chief Yevgeniy Prigozhin in a May 4, 2023 video. (Twitter).
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, the head of the Wagner Group mercenary force is once again threatening to withdraw his forces from the conflict.
In a gruesome, expletive-laden video reportedly filmed on May 4, Wagner honcho Yevgeniy Prigozhin can be seen at night, walking amongst the fallen bodies of his organization’s mercenaries.
“Those are soldiers we lost today. Their blood is still fresh,” Prigozhin says in the video, according to Politico. “And now listen to me, fuckers.
Turkish defense company Baykar has unveiled a mini drone-launched autonomous cruise missile. Baykar has developed the Bayraktar Kemankes to arm its Bayraktar Akinci, TB2 and TB3 combat drones, it said in a statement.
The missile has an autopilot system assisted by artificial intelligence and has a range of one hour.
AI-assisted precision
The missile’s AI-assisted optical guidance system helps it “identify and engage targets with pinpoint accuracy, even in difficult conditions.
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Combatant morale is crucial to how militaries perform. Indeed, the importance of alcohol to wider military morale was such that, during World War II, the British converted one of the Royal Navy’s auxiliary minelayers into a floating brewery. The vessel, HMS Menestheus, was altered in 1944 to supply beer to British and Allied forces stationed in the Pacific, which it did from the fall of 1945 into 1946.
Auxiliary minelayer HMS Menestheus moored at a minelaying base on the Kyle of Lochalsh, unknown date.
The capital ship Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG), the first aircraft carrier of its class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), departed Naval Station Norfolk for the first certified combat deployment.
“This strike group is the cornerstone of our Navy’s forward operations, capable of meeting any task provided by regional combatant commanders to ensure peace and stability at sea,” said Rear Adm. Greg Huffman, commanding officer of the Carrier Strike Group 12.
On the eve of Yom Kippur in Israel in 1973, everything was calm. In fact, for an entire day, there is very little movement in the whole of the country. One can stand on the balcony of a hotel in Tel Aviv and not see so much as a car moving on the vast streets below.