Loren Thompson, Forbes
There is a move afoot among some Republicans in the House of Representatives to scale back the federal government’s discretionary spending in fiscal 2024 to the level…
Author: Michael
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
The Russian president got many things wrong about invading Ukraine—but not everything.
The War Zone
Mariupol is about 50 miles from the front lines, which is just outside of the range of Ukraine’s HIMARS or M270 systems.
RespStatecraft
But one year after its brutal invasion of Ukraine, Moscow looks poised to weather the worst of Western sanctions.
Curtis McGiffin & Adam Lowther, RCDefense
The scale of shared interest between the UK and the European Union (EU) has grown significantly as Ukraine has been resisting Russian aggression for the past year.
This has led to questions in the UK over the country’s intergation within a more coordinated European defence policy; and whether an agreement to a shared platform for dialogue, beyond bilateral relations, will produce greater impact.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has given a sense of the shared interest in the past, commenting: “Ukraine has become the centre of our continent.
The British Army-organised cyber warfare exercise, titled Defence Cyber Marvel 2 (DCM2), has successfully culminated in Tallinn, Estonia.
The exercise involved the participation of over 750 cyber specialists, military personnel, government agencies, and industry partners from 11 countries, including Ukraine, the UK, India, Japan, Italy, Ghana, the US, Kenya, and Oman.
Approximately 900 personnel from the British Royal Air Force, Navy, and Army, were deployed from the UK alone.
Saab’s LWS-700 self-protection system, displayed at IDEX 2023. (Janes/Olivia Savage)
Saab has revealed a new self-protection system called the Laser Warning Sensor-700 (LWS-700) at IDEX 2023, being held in Abu Dhabi from 20 to 24 February.
Speaking to
Janes
, Gavin Copeland, business development and marketing for naval electronic warfare at Saab Grintek Defence, said that the LWS-700 is a “laser warning sensor for the automated detection, classification, and identification of laser-based weapons”.
The sensor has been developed over the past 3.
I tried to be an AI whiz, But tech knowledge I did lack; So all day long I sat and cried As I stared at the AI stack. –GPT-3 A one-sentence prompt is all it took for an artificial intelligence model, Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3, to craft a poem about my struggle to understand AI. […]
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The United Kingdom will soon support the Challenger 2 main battle tank in Ukraine and pointed out that neither the protective performance of the Challenger 2 nor the Chobham armor is as magical as the legend says. The Challenger 2 Protection can be said to have fallen from the altar.
British Challenger 2 main battle tank.
After breaking the protection myth of Challenger 2, we will find the tank Challenger 2 useless.