Six of Russia’s Most Modern Fighters Were Lost in Three Days

Ukraine reports that six of Russia’s most modern fighters were shotdown over three days. The Russia-Ukraine war is an intense war of attrition, where both sides are losing a lot of equipment and personnel. Nextbigfuture has previously reported on the Russian and Ukrainian air force losses. Russia has now lost about 88 modern fighter planes. …

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Rumors About Russian Space Based Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon

The White House’s national security adviser said Wednesday that he had already scheduled a classified meeting with congressional leadership before a top House Republican requested that President Joe Biden declassify all information that relates to serious national security threat. An anti-satellite nuclear weapon would likely be something that would generate an electromagnetic pulse. In 2018, …

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Ukraine’s One Million FPV Drones Is Outnumbered by 5 Million Russian Drones

Nextbigfuture has written about the drone attack and counter drone jamming defenses used in the Ukraine-Russia War. There is a new New Scientist article (behind a Paywall) talking about “What Does Ukraine’s Million Drone Army mean for the Future of War?” The First Person Drones are a delivery method for grenades and rocket propelled grenades …

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Weapons that Don’t Work in the Ukraine War Make Up Most of China’s Military

Chinese analysts want to understand why Russian weapons are doing so badly in the war in Ukraine. 70% of China’s modern airplanes are licensed copies, unlicensed copies or variants of the SU-27. 20% are inferior planes that are not even as good as the Russian copies. The Ukraine War has been an actual real world …

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War Over India Trade and Trade Routes

India is an emerging economic superpower and there is increasing trade between India and Europe, the US and India and trade with China. The Biden administration in September announced the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. This would have moved a lot of trade between Europe to India through Israel and Saudi Arabia. One-third of world trade …

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China’s Plan to Replace Coal Energy With Nuclear

Fast neutron reactors of Russian design can increase the usable uranium and nuclear fuel by 100 times. Russia alone has already accumulated about 1 million tonnes of depleted uranium hexafluoride. U-238 of near-nuclear purity can be used to produce fuel for fast reactors. Russia’s depleted uranium alone carries energy which is 100 times greater than …

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Russian Fast Reactor Makes Progress to Eliminating Nuclear Waste

The BN-800 sodium-cooled fast reactor at unit 4 of Russia’s Beloyarsk NPP has registered a year of reliable and safe operation using an almost full load of uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel. Russia says this proves the readiness of the closed nuclear fuel cycle technology for implementation on an industrial scale. The BN-800 is using …

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Russia Still Has Three Years of Tanks in Storage Based on Satellite Imagery

Youtuber Covert Cabal has updated his count of Russian Soviet era tanks in storage. He uses satellite images. Russia is now making about 200-250 new tanks each. They are losing about 1400 tanks each year in the Ukraine war. They have about 3500 tanks that are in suitable condition to be repaired and used in …

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