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weatheriscool wrote: Thu Jan 20, 2022 6:38 pm Trilateral naval drills between China, Russia and Iran start on Friday
Reuters ^ | Jan 20

Very likely that china and iran would fight with Russia if one of them got into a war.
I doubt it. It's more likely they will betray each other at the very last minute after they've squeezed out as much as political benefit they could from their short-lived display of superfluous political-military friendship. They're not going to risk themselves in a direct confrontation with the greatest military power on the planet.

The Iranians and Chinese will leave Russia out in the cold. Their ruling parties rely on the stability of their citizens' relative contentment, so getting involved in a high-casualty war with the United States wouldn't make any sense from their point of view.
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Taiwan reports new large-scale Chinese air force incursion
Source: Reuters
Taiwan on Sunday reported the largest incursion since October by China's air force in its air defence zone, with the island's defence ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 39 aircraft in the latest uptick in tensions.

Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for more than a year of repeated missions by China's air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands.

Taiwan calls China's repeated nearby military activities "grey zone" warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan's forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan's responses.

The latest Chinese mission included 34 fighters plus four electronic warfare aircraft and a single bomber, the Taiwan ministry said.

The aircraft flew in an area to the northeast of the Pratas, according to a map the ministry provided.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-paci ... 022-01-23/
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Defense Contractor CEOs Indicate Global Insecurity Will Benefit Their Bottom Line
by Eli Clifton
January 30, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022 ... l-security

Introduction:
(Common Dreams) According to chief executives of the top taxpayer-funded weapons firms, their balance sheets will benefit from the U.S. engaging in great power competition with Russia and China, the recent escalations in the Yemen war, and the potential for a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But at least one CEO didn’t want to give the impression that weapons firms are simply merchants of death, claiming that her firm, the third largest weapons producer in the world, “actually promote[s] human rights proliferation.”

Those comments were all made on quarterly earnings calls this week, at which executives for publicly traded companies speak to investors and analysts who follow their industries and answer questions about their financial outlook.

The occasion brings out a degree of candor about companies’ fundamentals and their business interests that aren’t always disclosed in marketing materials and carefully worded press releases.

For example, CEOs from both Lockheed Martin and Raytheon outright acknowledged that a deteriorating state of global peace and security and an increase in deadly violence are very much in the interest of their employees and investors.

Lockheed CEO James Taiclet assured investors that the $740 billion defense budget — twelve times the budget provided to the State Department to conduct diplomacy — could continue to grow in 2023, a critical metric for weapons contractors, the ultimate recipient of nearly half of all defense spending.
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Skyranger 30 HEL adds laser weapon to mobile air defense arsenal
By David Szondy
February 07, 2022

Rheinmetall has unveiled its portable Skyranger 30 HEL air defense system that boasts a combination of a 30 mm automatic cannon, Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) missiles, and a high-energy laser to protect mobile units.

After the end of the Cold War, one of the casualties of the victory was that many Western armed forces scrapped their anti-aircraft systems. But things have changed in the past decade, with a shift in the geopolitical situation and the emergence of an increasingly complex mix of drones, autonomous flight systems, and smart munitions that have prompted the need for a new generation of countermeasures.

The problem is that no one weapon is a panacea that can take out all threats, so a combination is needed for full protection. It's a bit like an aircraft carrier, which seems vulnerable because it doesn't have much in the way of guns, but is extremely hard to kill because it sits in the center of a screen of defenses that spreads out for hundreds of miles and consists of a myriad of ships, submarines, satellites, aircraft, missiles, and point defenses that a hostile force must penetrate to reach its target.

https://newatlas.com/military/skyranger ... er-weapon/
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What in the 90s was a cyberpunk apocalyptic scenario, is now everyday: the war conflicts of the 21st century will be marked by indirect tactics, information technologies or military operations carried out remotely.

In 1993, Alvin and Heidi Toffler published their essay Future Wars. The American sociologist left a thesis: “our way of fighting reflects our way of earning money, and the way of fighting against war must reflect the way of waging it”. And also a warning: “how we deal with this threat of explosive violence will determine, to a large extent, how our children live or perhaps die.” The Tofflers, he who died in 2016 and she in 2019, and also authors of The Third Wave and The Shock of the Future, divided the story into three waves. The first, the agricultural revolution, which occurred in the Neolithic, which turned us from nomads to sedentary ones. The second, the industrial revolution, which arrived three centuries ago and multiplied our way of producing, consuming and exploiting the planet’s resources. Finally, the information revolution, which appeared in the 70s when they refined their theory and today marks our lives. Therefore, the wars of the information and technology age will be marked by the use of both. Something that overlaps with the military theory that emerged in the same 90s in which the Tofflers wrote their essays.

US Army experts and theorists such as Martin Van Creveld fleshed out another classification, those of the four generations of wars. They begin with the sisters of fire and the third generation is that of the great conflicts of the 20th century: World War I and II, the Spanish Civil War, the Yom Kippur War… and continues until the 21st century, with wars such as the Lebanon in 2016.

Our time is that of fourth generation wars, which overlap with the previous ones.
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Yuli Ban wrote: Mon Mar 14, 2022 7:37 pm
What in the 90s was a cyberpunk apocalyptic scenario, is now everyday: the war conflicts of the 21st century will be marked by indirect tactics, information technologies or military operations carried out remotely.

In 1993, Alvin and Heidi Toffler published their essay Future Wars. The American sociologist left a thesis: “our way of fighting reflects our way of earning money, and the way of fighting against war must reflect the way of waging it”. And also a warning: “how we deal with this threat of explosive violence will determine, to a large extent, how our children live or perhaps die.” The Tofflers, he who died in 2016 and she in 2019, and also authors of The Third Wave and The Shock of the Future, divided the story into three waves. The first, the agricultural revolution, which occurred in the Neolithic, which turned us from nomads to sedentary ones. The second, the industrial revolution, which arrived three centuries ago and multiplied our way of producing, consuming and exploiting the planet’s resources. Finally, the information revolution, which appeared in the 70s when they refined their theory and today marks our lives. Therefore, the wars of the information and technology age will be marked by the use of both. Something that overlaps with the military theory that emerged in the same 90s in which the Tofflers wrote their essays.

US Army experts and theorists such as Martin Van Creveld fleshed out another classification, those of the four generations of wars. They begin with the sisters of fire and the third generation is that of the great conflicts of the 20th century: World War I and II, the Spanish Civil War, the Yom Kippur War… and continues until the 21st century, with wars such as the Lebanon in 2016.

Our time is that of fourth generation wars, which overlap with the previous ones.
The corporate wars are also starting to become a thing now too! Though not as wild as the cyberpunk series of course though when you have apps being shut down and all that does change everything.
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Poland wants to urgently buy U.S. Reaper drones, as Russia fears mount
Source: Reuters

Wed, March 16, 2022, 7:14 AM·1 min read
(Reuters) - Poland wants to buy several MQ-9 Reaper drones from the U.S. under a special, accelerated procedure, and is eyeing further procurements at a later date amid rising security concerns three weeks into a Russian invasion of its neighbour Ukraine.

"We are planning to urgently procure the first MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial systems... We are talking about delivery of several sets," Lieutenant Colonel Krzysztof Platek, a spokesperson for the Polish Defence Ministry's Armament Agency, said in an interview on Wednesday.

Simultaneously Poland is pursuing the Zefir programme under which the purchase of MALE-class unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is being negotiated, Platek said, declining to specify which drones might be ordered.

Poland hopes for the first drones to be delivered before the end of the year. The value of the planned acquisition was not disclosed by the ministry.

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And Now Russia Is Threatening Bosnia and Herzegovina Over NATO, Too
Source: The Daily Beast
Russia is now threatening to repeat the aggression it unleashed against Ukraine in Bosnia and Herzegovina if the country joins NATO. In comments made to the broadcaster FTV on Thursday, Russian Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Igor Kalbukhov claimed the country could do as it wishes in regards to the alliance—but warned that Moscow would respond. “If [Bosnia and Herzegovina] decides to be a member of any alliance, that is an internal matter. Our response is a different matter. Ukraine’s example shows what we expect. Should there be any threat, we will respond,” he said in comments carried by Euractiv. ...

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It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.

All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
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Yuli Ban wrote: Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:10 am
It took less than six hours for drug-developing AI to invent 40,000 potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.

All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.
Here is a link to the Nature Machine Intelligence article mentioned in Yuli's post: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-022-00465-9
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