Collaborate Disseminate
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: Yury Borisov, the deputy prime minister in charge of military development, told Russian TV that a laser prototype called Zadira was being deployed in Ukraine and had burned up a Ukrainian drone within five seconds… Continue reading Russia’s Claim To Have Used a Laser Weapon In Battle Derided As Propaganda
Task and Purpose reports on “a new and somewhat unnerving recruiting pitch from the U.S. Army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group” that asks viewers one simple question: “Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?”
The three-and-a-half minute… Continue reading The US Army’s Unsettling New Recruitment Video for Psychological Warfare
An anonymous reader quotes Business Insider:
Wrecked Russian fighter jets are being found with rudimentary GPS receivers “taped to the dashboards” in Ukraine because their inbuilt navigation systems are so bad, the UK’s defense secretary, Ben Wallace,… Continue reading Downed Russian Fighters Said to Be Found With Basic GPS ‘Taped To the Dashboards’
CNN cites a local source imagining the surprise of the looters of a Ukranian farm equipment dealership who’d transported some heavy machines over 700 miles to Russia. “They realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were loc… Continue reading Russians Plundered $5M Farm Vehicles from Ukraine – to Find They’ve Been Remotely Disabled
While Russia’s “relentless digital assaults” on Ukraine might seem less damaging than anticipated, the attacks actually focused on a different goal with “chilling potential consequences,” reports the Associated Press. “Data collection.”
Even in an ear… Continue reading How Russians – and Ukranians – are Using Stolen Data
The US Army could end up wasting much as $22 billion in taxpayer cash if soldiers aren’t actually interested in using, or able to use as intended, the Microsoft HoloLens headsets it said it would purchase, a government watchdog has warned. The Register… Continue reading US Army May Be About To ‘Waste’ Up To $22 Billion On Microsoft HoloLens
World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of $2.1 trillion. This was the seventh consecutive year that spending increased. From a report: “Even amid the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, world military spendi… Continue reading World Military Expenditure Passes $2 Trillion for First Time
78-year-old rancher Ed Butcher has, for 60 years, lived with a nuclear missile as his closest neighbor — an active U.S. government nuclear missile, buried just beneath his cow pasture.
“Do you think they’ll ever shoot it up into the sky?” asks … Continue reading A Visit to the Nuclear Missile Next Door
The Associated Press files this report from Chernobyl, where invading tanks in February “churned up highly contaminated soil from the site of the 1986 accident that was the world’s worst nuclear disaster…”
“Here in the dirt of one of the world’s mo… Continue reading What Happened After Russia Seized Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday, the Internet got a much better look at military facilities across Russia. Google Maps stopped obscuring the sensitive locations due to Russia’s ongoing invasion of its neighbor Ukraine. … Continue reading Russia’s Military Is Now On Full Display In Google Maps Satellite View