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09/12/2021

in 2017, Iraq 🇮🇶 declared victory over , however, the group is still wreaking havoc across the globe.

"Honorable Iraqis, your land has been completely liberated. The dream of liberation is now a reality," stated Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi through a televised address two days after a similar announcement came from Moscow about the success of the Russian military in Syria next door.

Founded originally in Jordan in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who had returned from Afghanistan, ISIS seized the vacuum left in the wake of the Second Gulf War in Iraq post-2003. Though it pledged loyalty to Al Qaeda next year and renamed the faction as Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the group had evolved into a far more extreme version of Al Qaeda owing to the socio-economic difference between the fighters of both militant organisations.

In April 2013, the AQI formally declared autonomy over all Al Qaeda operations in Iraq and Syria, naming the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria or ISIS for short. This caused a permanent wedge between Al Qaeda and ISIS, especially when Ayman al-Zawahiri sided with Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra, Al Qaeda's other branch in Syria. By February 2014, the war had turned multilayered with both factions openly striving over territorial and ideological gains.

ISIS at its peak in 2015 commanded over Western Iraq & Eastern Syria, implementing their fascist religious interpretations on eight to twelve million souls through a reported annual budget of 1 billion $ and 30,000 fighters. An international US-led coalition in Iraq coupled with limited Russian-Iranian Intervention in Syria gradually contributed to the downfall of one of the most draconian regimes which once ruled a third of Iraq.

Although ISIS lost most of its territory, resource base and major strongholds of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, it is still not entirely dismantled in the region. According to Soufan Centre, the group claimed over 90 operations per month in Iraq between January 2021 & September 2022. On the other hand, its affiliate branches are still terrorizing Asia and Africa.

ISKP has emerged as a major threat to regional peace and stability amid the US withdrawal from Afghanistan with the Kabul Airport twin bombing killing most US troops in a single attack since 2011 along with dozens of Afghan civilians. ISIS in Africa has so far plagued Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Kenya, Somalia, Egypt with an almost defunct presence in Libya and Tunisia.

06/06/2021

The Graveyard of Empires.
cc: Mint Press News

05/06/2021

AlJazeera Correspondent Givara Budeiri assaulted and arrested in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Shiekh Jarrah while covering the demonstration remembering Al-Naksa Day of the displacements 300,000 Palestinians in the aftermath of Six Day War of 1967.

Israel has killed more than 48 journalists since the Second Intifada erupted in 2000 with 500 to 700 attacks made by Israeli forces on Palestinian Journalists.
As of May 2021, Israel has 13 Palestinian Journalists in detention including a woman journalist as well. Imprisoned journalists belong to news organizations like AlkofiyaTv - قناة الكوفية and قناة الغد Alghad TV.

During last month's 11-day Israeli offensive, Israel bombed at least 18 media offices including those and , stated the Committee to Protect Journalists().

Source: Anadolu Agency, Reporters Without Borders, Committee to Protect Journalists

09/05/2021

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐚 𝐢𝐧 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
My April article in Paradigm Shift states that in the last decade, Islamophobia has been on the rise in France. The situation worsened after the French president, Emmanuel Macron, called Islam a “religion in crisis”, defended blasphemous caricatures, and declared that he would make Islam “compatible” with French republican values and liberate it. France witnessed a 53% increase in religious violence last year.
https://www.paradigmshift.com.pk/islamophobia-in-france/

In the last decade, Islamophobia has been on the rise in France. The situation worsened after the French president...

23/04/2021

𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐙𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐍𝐨𝐚𝐦 𝐛𝐨𝐲𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐦𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬

"We believe in the importance of engaging with Israel as it is, with all the joys and challenges which come with that," Noam stated in an official statement." Despite this, we feel that Hotovely's comments are beyond the pale."

Noam Youth group is affiliated with Masorti Judaism Organization, which was sponsoring a webinar with sitting Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely. Noam had strived to persuade Masorti to cancel the notification for Hotovely and upon getting their request turned down, they settled to hold their own protest meeting, where Israelis combating racism and member of minority Palestinian factions of Israel will participate.

Hotovely has "consistently refused to recognize Palestinian heritage," remarked the youth group, and she also invited Lehave, an Israel-based extremist and highly controversial organization, fighting Jewish assimilation and inter-marriages between Jews and Arabs. Tzipi Hotovely has been tossed by boycotts and protests before by liberal Jews on a number of occasions, but it's the first time, that a Zionist movement has shown its dissatisfaction for Hotovely.

Tzipi Hotovely, the Orthodox member of Likud, a major right-wing political party, is currently a diplomat and has held the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, before appointed as Israeli ambassador to the UK in Jan 2020 and known for her far-right positions.

Noam's leaders also conveyed their distress over past comments by Hotovely in which she taunted American Jews for not sending their children to 'fight for the country' and having 'convenient lives'. “We do not want to listen to and applaud a woman who has denigrated our Judaism, saying we have ‘decided to take the shell and name of Judaism, all of the customs and tradition and to empty the meaning from them,’” added the statement. “To reward her with a platform after these hurtful comments is a deep humiliation for our community."

For the record, though Hotovely's remarks given in 2017 had drawn a lot of fire towards her, later survey by Israel Democracy Institute revealed that 51 percent of Israeli Jews 'strongly' and 'moderately' agreed with demeaning remarks stated by Hotovely.

Earlier this month, more than 30 “proud and committed Liberal Jews” signed an open letter condemning an online meeting set to be chaired by the chief executive of the Liberal Jewish Movement, Rabbi Charley Baginsky while Omar Portillo, chairman of Liberal Judaism’s Black Jews and Jews of Colour Action Group resigned in protest.

Hotovely had stated the 1948 Nakba as "a very strong and very popular Arab lie" in her first speech at an event held by pro-Israel lobby group the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Where In reality, more than 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homes upon the establishment of the Zionist state of Israel.

Image credits: Times of Israel (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

18/04/2021

𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹 𝘄𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗽 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝘀𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗹.

"This isn't a sunrise. But an airstrike on Gaza on the first Friday of Ramadan." tweeted Khaled A. Beydoun, Law professor at the University of Arkansas with a picture taken in Rafah city of southern Gaza Strip of an explosion following an Israeli airstrike.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed to successfully hit multiple 'terror targets' including an armaments' production facility, a tunnel for smuggling weaponry and a Hamas military post in the released statement. “The attack was carried out as a response to the rocket fire from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory earlier this evening,” said the statement. Hours before the IDF launched the attack, Palestinians Resistance fired rockets on Southern Israel which hit an open ground without causing any injury.

Hamas spokesperson's response to the airstrikes was something anyone would expect from those fighting for their very existence.
"Gaza still fights and doesn't break."

OSINT(Open Source Intel) handle Aleph א(no_itsmyturn) rolled out the details of individual strikes like this.
3 missiles, Resistance's site, west of Rafah, 2 missiles by IAF jet, same site, 2 missiles, east of Al Buraij [Empty field], 2 missiles, south of the Gaza city, resistance's position, 2 missiles, another site, west of Rafah"

Gaza Strip has been under joint Blockade by Israel and Egypt since 2007 when Hamas took over this Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. Both sides have fought three wars since then with thousands of Palestinians dead and wounded. 2014 Gaza war alone also remembered as Operation 'Protective Edge' killed 2104 Palestinian souls including 1462 Civilians, 495 of which were Children with 253 women according to the United Nations.

Image Credits: AFP

29/03/2021

Terrorists killed dozens of innocents as military crisis Intensifies in Northern Mozambique - Report

“A group of terrorists sneaked into … Palma and launched actions that resulted in the cowardly murder of dozens of defenceless people” remarked Omar Saranga, defence security forces Spokesperson on sunday.

Militants launched a coordinated attack on the town of Palma on Wednesday from several directions, shooting defenceless civilians in their homes and streets. Witnesses report dead bodies on the street with some of them beheaded. A convoy of 17 vehicles was trying to flee from the conflicted region on Friday when it got ambushed by the terrorists twice. An estimated 200 of civilians, mostly foreigners working at a multi-billion dollar gas project nearby, had sought refuge in Hotel Amarula before they attempted to escape. 60 of them are still missing with the exact number of the dead and wounded is also unknown as there is little or no communications from the town of 75,000 people. Aid Agencies like Save the Children reported the horrible beheading of children as young as 12 this month.

Cabo Delgado, northernmost Province of Mozambique has been facing an armed insurgency for three years now. Ansar ul-Sunnah, a name akin to an Iraqi armed faction US troops dealt with around 2003 to 2007 surfaced around 2015. The group is locally known as ‘al-Shabab’, although they have no known connection to the terrorist organization of similar name based in Somalia. Cabo Delgado had remained one of the most neglected region of Mozambique for half a century with the highest rates of illiteracy and child malnutrition and that’s what has fueled this particular military campaign. Local elites have lost trust for the politicians who are believed to be in bed with criminal bosses involved in the smuggling of timber, jewels and he**in. It’s militants have been attacking both civilian and military personnel since 2017, following a radical agenda of extremism. ISIL (Islamic state of Iraq and Levant) also became active in mid 2018 and claimed to have made the first strike on security forces in 2019. Ironically, these armed factions have also self-financed themselves through the same illegal he**in and jewel trade which plunged the region to poverty & inequalities in the first place.

The military upheaval has also jeopardized the 20 billion $ Rovuma Liquefied Natural Gas Project, one of the largest of its kind in Africa. Analysts claimed that it was capable of transforming Mozambique into ‘Africa’s Qatar’ but a terrorist raid in a town less than 3 miles from the construction site in Afungi Peninsula forced French Petroleum Giant Total to reduce its working staff in January this year. Western and Asian Energy firms have been aiming to pour around 100 billion $ over the span of the next two decades to develop gas projects putting production at 50 million tonnes per year.

The resulting humanitarian crisis has displaced an estimated 700,000 people according to the United Nations. UN officials have also warned last week that the number of those uprooted from their homes can reach up to a million by June. US based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Agency (ACLED) states that rising terrorism has ravaged 2600 souls, half of them who were Civillains including children.

“If one looks at the speed at which we are seeing the number of internally displaced persons rise, we know that the window of opportunity that we have is closing”, stated Rouf Mazou, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Operations last Monday, signaling the need of an increased International Support as the 254 million $ humanitarian appeal called in December last year is just 5% funded.

Image credits: AFP & CNN

12/03/2021

While the International Criminal Court is determined to pursue the truth of human rights abuses and war crimes in Palestine, Geopolitical barriers like the Israel's Opposition, United States' Sanctions and Prosecutor Ms Bensouda's replacement will determine the future of one of the most vital ICC Investigation because it's the closest Israel has ever been to reap what it has sown over the decades.

https://rund-news.com/future-of-icc-probe-of-israels-war-crimes-in-palestine-opinion

While the International Criminal Court is determined to pursue the truth of human rights abuses and war crimes in Palestine, Geopolitical barriers like the Israel\'s Opposition, United States\' Sanctions and Prosecutor Ms Bensouda\'s replacement will determine the future of one of the most vital ICC...

01/03/2021

𝐅𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞: 𝐔.𝐒 𝐀𝐢𝐫 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞'𝐬 𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐀𝐕 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬.

High Energy Laser Weapon System 2 or generally known as H2, developed by Raytheon Technologies is being evaluated to build Tactical High-Power Operational Responder (THOR) to destroy unmanned drone system, utlizing either direct energy or high powered microwaves.

“This experiment has many notable U.S. Air Force firsts, including the complete training of and operation of the system by Security Forces Airmen, the first directed energy c-UAS capability, and the first integration with a base,” stated Lt. Col. Jared Rupp, director of Direct Energy Combined Test Force in a press release by U.S Air Force two weeks ago.

Experiments began last summer at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico with U.S Army collabrating witth U.S Air Force under Indirect Fire Protection Capability (IFPC), a mobile base series of weapon system designed to take down enemy rockets, cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles which also encompasses a 150 Kw Laser weapon.

But where high energy Laser weapons can only shoot one target at a time, high energy microwaves can kill swarms of drones, a new kind of modern warfare where large groups of drones, often A.I powered, are utilized to attack enemy. Microwaves bursts will 'fry' the internal circuts and electornics of drones or other electronic equipment, forcing them to crash to ground. Well, now you know why you are often asked 'not to put metal stuff' inside Microwave Oven.
Video Credits: Raytheon Technologies

26/02/2021

17 dead as the US struck Iranian-backed militia sites in Syria as first Biden's authorized military action.

In one of the first Joe Biden's ordered attacks on Thursday, United States conducted airstrikes in Al Bukamal town of Eastern Syria, tearing down several installations operated by Kata'ib Hezbollah and Kata'ib Sayyid al Shuhada.

"The operation sends an unambiguous message; President Biden will act to protect American coalition personnel” notified Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby while also stating that it's done deliberately to ‘de-escalate' regional crisis of Iraq and Eastern Syria.

The recent strike is a part of the series of attacks and counter-attacks between Washington and Tehran-backed armed factions in Syria commenced when a Dec 2019 rocket attack on a military base in Iraq killed a civilian US contactor followed by a US attack on Kataib Hezbollah killing 25 which in return resulted in US embassy in Iraq being raided allegedly in Iranian supported protests. From there it led to Gen Soleimani's killing on Iraqi soil and more rocket attacks on US bases in response and so on.

While the current US administration in Washington and Tehran were supposed to be negotiating the revival of the 2015 Nuclear Deal even after all of the revenge and mistrust stacked by Trump, 15 Feb attack on US coalition troops on Erbil International Airport In Northern Iraq threw oil on the fire.

Biden Administration “reserve the right to respond in a manner and at a time of our choosing” White House spokesman Jen Psaki warned after 14 rockets fired in Kurdish held Iraqi region took the life of another civilian contractor and wounded 9 others involving a US military personnel as well.

Although Washington doesn't give a damn about International laws but talking about the legality of the air raid
“The United Nations Charter makes clear that the use of military force on the territory of a foreign sovereign state is lawful only in response to an armed attack on the defending state for which the target state is responsible and none of those elements is met in the Syria strike.”
Stated Mary Ellen O’Connell, Notre Dame Law School professor to The Guardian criticizing the attack.

23/02/2021

Budget Limitations: Faster and Economical 4.5th Generation F-16 Replacement on the Table
-Stated US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen C.Q Brown.

Top Speed of 1500mph, first supersonic jet to reach Mach 2, first designed to perform 9G maneuvers and along with these tremendous feats, Four decades of service and 4588 aircraft built for 25 countries in the World, the groundbreaking 4th Generation Fighter jet, F-16 still stands as one of the most popular, and it will keep predating in the skies for some time, although the sharp-witted minds in Washington have come with a faster and more economical replacement.

“I want to be able to build something new and different, that’s not the F 16 — that has some of those capabilities, but gets there faster and uses some of our digital approach” remarked US Air Force Chief of Staff, Gen Charles Q Brown last week.

Gen Charles announced the initiation of a Tactical Air Study with CAPE (Cost Assessment and Evaluation Program) which as he stated “Will help inform the decisions that I think I need to make internal to the Air Force, and what I would recommend that force mix might be”. The study will encompass a four and half or minus fifth generation jet with a ‘clean sheet design’

He also mentioned the possibility that the proposed fighter may replace the falcon jet on ‘open mission systems’, an OSA approach aimed to bring down the cost and schedule of an avionics upgrade utilizing DOS-owned open standards while also demolishing the contractor’s monopoly.

28/01/2021

"As a journalist I worked in failed states, in real failed states, you did not have literature festivals in Kabul in the 1990s or in Mogadishu today."
Anatol Lieven/Karachi Literary Festival,2012
Pakistan: A Hard Country

13/01/2021

Syria: Deadliest Israeli Air raids in years killed 10 Syrian Soldiers and 47 allied fighters.

According to AP and Al Jazeera English News Agencies, Israel attacked 18 targets in Eastern Syria from Deir Az Zor to the al-Bukamal desert. Targets were warehouses used to store Iranian Weapons, based on the Intelligence provided by the United States. Last week on 7 Jan, attacks were made in Southern Syria.

“They burnt Iranian positions in Deir Ezzor,” said Omar Abu Laila, a European activist from Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor province.

Images of Injured Popular Mobilization Unit members as a result of IDF attacks. is the Iraqi state sponsored alliance of more than 40 militias containing Shia, Sunni and even Christian units.
Despite the claims, Fatemiyoun division said that there were no deaths from their division in last night raids.

Israel has done a number of attacks on Iranian proxies in Syria since the Civil war broke out in the Middle Eastern country in 2011, also under the name of 'Operation Chess'. Another worth mentioning fact is that the area attacked is the critical passage connecting Tehran to Syria from Iraq and up to Lebanon.

"The rebels are not our friends, they are all versions of Al-Qaeda", Israel could not allow a man like Bashar al-Assad to remain in power: "Keeping Assad in power is not in our security interests. As long as he is in power, Iran and Hezbollah will be in Syria.
Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman said in 2017 as reported by The Jerusalem Post / JPost.com.

Satellite Imagery of Area, Injured Soldiers and Attacked Warehouse courtesy of Observer on Twitter.

07/01/2021

Future of democracy and freedom of expression in America and US influence in Third world politics under question. What if it was Pyongyang, Hong Kong, Beijing or Moscow and not Washington.
https://rund-news.com/washington-under-domestic-terrorism-what-it-means-for-democratic-world

Future of democracy and freedom of expression in America and US influence in third world politics under question.

02/01/2021

“Have you ever noticed that if there’s a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?”

Barack Obama, A Promised Land

31/12/2020

United States B-52 Bombers flew to the Middle East and over the Persian Gulf to warn Tehran amid possible Iranian attacks on US facilities in Iraq as the first death anniversary of Gen. Qassem Soleimani approaches on 2nd January.

According to Fox News, a senior US military official stated in the light of intelligence reports that there is "potential for more complex attacks” on Americans in Iraq as Iran wants the revenge for Soleimani's assassination.

The New York Times Reported that In the past three weeks, US Central Command has dispatched the bombers, sent an extra squadron of fighter planes to Saudi Arabia, kept the aircraft carrier Nimitz in the region and publicly announced for the first time in nearly a decade that a Tomahawk-missile-firing submarine was operating.

Independent Middle East Observers also reported abnormal activity of USAF KC-135 air refuelling tankers.

Iranian military officials have stated their vendetta clearly more than once.
“Our revenge for the martyrdom of our great general is certain. It is serious. It is real,” IRGC chief Major Gen Hossein Salami said in September 2020 addressing US President.

28/12/2020

United States Army ready to test modified Stryker Armoured Vehicles with Laser shooting technology in early 2021.

Stryker Armoured Vehicles, since their development and production in the early 2000s have gone into a number of enhancements over the time, mainly due to their use in Afghanistan. In October, reports came of testing of Stryker Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) vehicle. Along with the ability to transfer visual data and reports, increasing the operational effectiveness of Vehicles, upgrades also included in target detection, resolution of camera quality and of missile launcher as well, enabling to shoot at longer ranges.

Current Project is going on under the overseeing of Kord Technologies, Inc. with a combined endeavour of Northrop Grumman Corporation and Raytheon Technologies with each subcontractor developing a different type of laser technology.
Teams are modifying two Strykers to hold 50 kW class laser and only one of the two technologies will be selected for further testing and evaluation next year.

In recent years, due to the increased advancements in unmanned aircraft and artillery, the need of effective armoured vehicles has been increased. The US Army is projecting to launch the first laser modified Strykers for field operations by 2022.

25/12/2020

Click below 👇👇 to read my article on China's development of long range Stealth Bomber.
A century after German tries of Stealth technology, earth faces two superpowers capable of hitting each other across the Pacific using Inter Continental Stealth Bombers and Hypersonic Nuclear weapons.
https://rund-news.com/h-20-intercontinental-stealth-bomber-china-beyond-pacific-ocean

A century after German tries of Stealth technology, earth faces two superpowers capable of hitting each other across Pacific using Inter Continental Stealth Bombers and Hypersonic Nuclear weapons

24/12/2020

05/12/2020

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒍𝒇 𝑪𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔.

On Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan acknowledged 'significant progress in the last few days' in current talks with Qatar.

Hours earlier Foreign Minister of mediator state, Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmad Nasser al-Sabah also termed the current talks 'fruitful'.

June 05, 2017, when Kingdom of Saudia Arabia, UAE, Egypt & Bahrain declared 'blockade' of Qatar on the accusations of terrorism support, most thought that Qatar may suffer due to food shortages and will submit to Kingdom's demands. They underestimated the House of Al Thani.

Qatar just didn't manage to survive but also thrived in this boycott due to being the richest country in the world, wise management, timely supplies from Turkey & Iran and newly operational 7.4 billion $ Hammad Port.

04/12/2020

𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭 & 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐇𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬.

France led an effort with Finland, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain to develop a system of space based warning system and an interceptor moving at Mach 5 at an altitude of 100 kilometres with the timeline of around 2030 and now Berlin has also joined this project saying it “align with German interests,”

European defence system lacks in the ability to intercept Hypersonic missiles Moscow is currently working on. Recently in October, Russia tested its 'Tsirkon' hypersonic missile in Russian Arctic with the effective range of 450 km at a speed of Mach 8.

Currently, Germany is under the protection of Patriot defence fleet which is ageing very fast in view of evolving modern missile & drone technologies across the globe.

01/12/2020

𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐣𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐮𝐭, 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍.

Israeili aircrafts flew over Southern Sidon city and the Jezzine town, south of the capital, as well as areas in northern Beirut.

IDF keeps monitoring Hezbollah's activities in Lebanon and Syria sometimes with warplanes or sometimes with drones. In July, SkyStriker drone by Israel's Elbit Systems, also known as 'the su***de drone crashed in Lebanon territory as it was spying on Hezbollah's movements.

Its kind of causal thing for IDF to violates its neighbours' air space in the name of reconnaissance of Hezbollah's activities while Lebanon with its weak military power can't do much about it rather than complaining.

26/11/2020

𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐲 have 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩ed an 𝐀𝐈 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬. 𝐀 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐞.

Some countries including US and China are already into developing this futuristic technology having the ability to revolutionize the dynamics of future warfare. US released a video in 2016 of around 100 small drones attacking two fighter jets in California. China's Academy of Electronics and Information Technology (CAEIT) conducted another test this year of its swarm of su***de drones.

Turkish firm MilSOFT, after four years of research, has developed an AI powered software which will enable these Swarms to complete the whole mission autonomously while being monitored.

Turkish drones have proved themselves as an authority throughout the Middle East & Central Asia. They operated successfully against Kurdish forces, in Syria, Iraq and Libya. Recently they also played a decisive role in Armenia - Azerbaijan war.

To be clear, these drone swarms aren't just a group of drones. When they say it's a swarm, they mean it. They can communicate with each other, while one can send its data to others, they can alter their behavior in real time, an asymmetrical warfare but more coordinated than you imagine.

They have countless potential applications from assembling a strange defense missiles including even against hypersonic missiles, nuclear deterrence, damaging plane wings, distracting defense systems to chemical and biological warfare and so on.

The idea of an AI powered drone swarm having the ability to target potential threats on its own raised questions among the International community.
“The prospect of machines with the discretion and power to take human life is morally repugnant.”
UN Secretary General António Guterres told in a speech in 2018.

All wars in history on humanity were waged by Humans, filled with actions they call 'mistakes', killing millions with no accountability at all. You really want me to believe that human hands are safer than those of machines?

Another point on which analysts have disagreement upon is its cost-effectiveness that Whether they will be cheap enough to operate on that big scale. Mainly, It depends on how they will be used strategically. Only things we are sure of now, is that it is revolutionary and It is going to happen.

23/11/2020

23/11/2020

𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐯𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫 (𝐀𝐀𝐒) 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 almost 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

This AAS will use radar technology instead of Sonar or Magnetic detection and will work on multiple frequencies which will enable it to bypass jamming and detect very small object invisible to human eye.

Submarines create little wakes on the surface water when they move through it. It will be able to detect them. Once detected, a P-8 maritime petrol aircraft can drop Mk-54 torpedo through parachute having a sonar which will search and destroy enemy sub.