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Let me start by saying that shooting 55gr .223 out of a 20-inch pencil barrel with a rifle-length gas system, as Eugene Stoner, Bob Fremont, and Jim Sullivan intended, is a very enjoyable firearms experience. That said, since the AR-15 was introduced, shooters and engineers have been trying to figure out just how short an AR’s barrel length can be.
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The AR’s internal pistol design bleeds gas from the barrel and uses it to cycle the bolt carrier group.
Military analysts are captivated by how the material nature of war is transforming in Ukraine. Unmanned systems have captured Russian infantry units, battered Russian naval and commercial ships, and even, with the help of on-board AI, conducted autonomous strikes deep into areas where Russian jamming foils remote piloting. These technologies are powering a dramatic democratization of military capability, allowing a country to hold off an invader many times its size.But that democratization is only part of the story, and is in fact driven by an equally dramatic consolidation.
For years, the Chinese military’s own newspaper has been making a promise it may no longer be able to keep. Whenever the People’s Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao), the official newspaper of China’s Central Military Commission, discusses artificial intelligence and command, it returns to the same reassurance: Machines may sort sensor data, draft options, and compress the time between observation and action, but the final authority, and the responsibility that comes with it, belong to the human commander.
A new U.S. Air Force EA-37B Compass Call electronic warfare aircraft has flown intensified operations along the borders of Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave in Central Europe, operating closely alongside a NATO E-3 AWACS and a U.S. Army ARTEMIS II intelligence aircraft. Kaliningrad is one of the most sensitive areas on NATO’s eastern flank, as it is geographically separated from mainland Russia and lies between Poland and Lithuania, leaving it surrounded by hostile states.
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps considering attacks on U.S. military facilities in Europe if the ongoing war effort further escalations, according to a report by the Financial Times. Two unidentified Iranian sources reportedly told the paper that U.S. bases in countries including Bulgaria have been assessed as potential targets as part of contingency plans for expanding the conflict. The development would represent a major geographical expansion of the conflict and could put U.S. forces across Europe on a higher state of alert.
Russia’s state defence conglomerate Rostec has delivered a new batch of Pantsir-S air defence combat vehicles and stationary Pantsir-SMD air-defence systems to the Russian Ministry of Defence. The systems were produced by Rostec’s High-Precision Systems holding and have reportedly completed the required testing before being accepted into service.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The Army’s top cyber officer revealed Wednesday the existence of a new task force dedicated to exploring the use of artificial intelligence in the service’s cyber command, from simple staff processes to agents “hunting” in the Department of Defense Information Network (DODIN).
Task Force Lexington was established in April and charged with creating AI agents for different cyber work roles, including developers, data engineers, host analysts and exploitation analysts, according to Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank, head of U.S. Army Cyber Command.