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In an until-now secretive program, the United Kingdom has rapidly developed and flight-tested a number of “complex” drones that would be suitable for use by Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. While it’s unclear which of any of the unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in question were ultimately selected for supply to Ukraine, it’s obvious that a range of different capabilities was explored in the process, including surveillance drones and, most intriguingly, what is described as a “3D-printed delta-wing ‘suicide’ drone.

The Central Intelligence Agency is getting set to explore using chatbots and generative artificial intelligence capabilities to assist its officers in completing day-to-day job functions and their overarching spy missions.
Lakshmi Raman, the CIA’s AI director, confirmed these plans at the Potomac Officers Club’s annual AI summit in Virginia on Thursday.

The Russian envoy to the United Nations has declared that it will be impossible for his country to achieve President Vladimir Putin’s war goals in Ukraine unless Bakhmut, an industrial city in Donbas, is captured.
Bakhmut, in the eastern Donetsk region, has been one of the hotbeds of war for half a year. The Russian army has focused its attacks on the city, run by the notorious Wagner paramilitary group, hoping to capture it.

From the humorist to the sage and the leader these are the seven roles than create a perfect team better than the sum of its parts.
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The Ukrainian Army has devised a novel technique to deploy the captured Russian Army T-62 main combat tanks from the Cold War era.
Ukrainian forces are repurposing seized T-62 tanks as armored recovery vehicles (ARVs), which will accompany main battle tanks (MBTs) into combat. The ARV will be used to rescue these tanks in the event that they become disabled in combat or when traversing flooded terrain.
Equipped with bulldozers and other equipment, these ARVs can help other engineering tanks prepare fortifications, repair damaged vehicles, etc.

Two F-35A Lightning II aircraft fly over the Alaska Canada Highway en route to their new home at the 354th Fighter Wing, Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 21, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Adam Keele).

U.S. Air Force fighter jets intercepted a group of Russian military aircraft off of Alaska on Tuesday, the U.S. military’s second such intercept in as many days, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) announced on Thursday.

Tyler Rogoway (Hunter), Martin Baker (Ejection Seat) Rod Kurtz (In Front Of Hunter)

Former U.S. Navy Super Hornet pilot Roderick “Hot Rod” Kurtz was surprised.
On a fair-weather summer afternoon in August 2017, just under two years after he retired from active duty flying F/A-18E/F Super Hornets with Strike Fighter Squadron 122 (VFA-122), the “Flying Eagles,” Kurtz was airborne in a Hawker Hunter acting as an adversary to help train the Navy fighter pilots and ship crews he’d only recently parted company with.

Defense Department CIO John Sherman on Wednesday publicly issued the DOD Cyber Workforce Framework after months of previewing the new lexicon for defense personnel who perform IT and cybersecurity-related roles.
The framework builds on the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework and DOD’s Joint Cyberspace Training and Certification Standards to establish an “authoritative lexicon based on the work an individual is performing, not their position titles, occupational series, or designator.

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Recently, a Chinese surveillance balloon and three other as-yet unidentified objects were shot down over North America. What’s the deal?
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