In May 2023, Oleksandr Ruvin, director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, displayed parts from a Russian Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic missile, shot down by a Ukrainian air defence unit. U.S.-supplied Patriot missiles were used to thwart some or all of the attempted strikes. It happened 10 days after the military said it …
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and David Sacks had a Twitter Space discuss how the continuing Russia, Ukraine war and the Hamas-Israel war could expand into larger wars and even something that looks a lot like World War 3. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …
Before Russia’s war with Ukraine started about 2 years ago, Russia and Putin bragged about their new hypersonic missiles (Kinzhal) and its new SU-57 stealth fighter. The new weapons were supposed to be unstoppable. Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 21 October 2023. Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of …
The U.S. conducted a high-explosive experiment at a nuclear test site in Nevada hours after Russia revoked a ban on nuclear weapons testing. Wednesday’s test used chemicals and radioisotopes to validate new predictive explosion models”\ that can help detect atomic blasts in other countries, Bloomberg reported, citing the Department of Energy. Russian lawmakers announced their …
The official IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Nuclear energy forecast, which gets insider information on all of the funded nuclear energy projects and national programs, has increased its 2050 projections low-medium and high cases by about 12%. Europe has to get reliable energy and cannot use Russian oil and gas. This has led to an …
The US Air Force has given the first look at the the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile. This will be a hypersonic missile with a supersonic ramjet engine that is scheduled for deployment around 2027. Drawings of the Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile are below. The scramjet propelled the missile at “a speed greater than …
Ukraine shot 100 drones and 24 Storm shadow with Russia’s Crimean base targets, ships and airplanes. It is being reported that Russia had to move its navy ships and planes from Crimea. About 25% of the drones and a dozen of the storm shadow missiles got through to hit targets and the rest were intercepted. …
Lockheed CEO James Taiclet said Ukrainian forces the Patriot—invented in the 1970s but upgraded many times to shoot down a Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missile. This was done in May, 2023. Software upgrades can sometimes enable an existing system to deal with a more advanced threats. The Defense Department is still holding too many competitions in …
At the beginning of the Ukraine War, Russian Air Forces flew into Ukraine’s ground air defenses and did significant damage at the cost of 75 planes. Russia has reduced the loss of planes but had to fly low and less effectively. From March 2022, the VKS (Russian Air force) lost the ability to operate in …
I, Brian Wang, will be talking with Warren Redlich and @Anything Tesla about the Next Great Power. China vs USA vs India. I will be making a case for ASEAN and Canada. We will discuss demographics, immigration-emigration and people, money and technology. I would say that China is already a Great Power. We will have …
Ukraine was able to destroy a submarine and a navy landing ship in dry dock but under the protection of several Russian S-400 anti-missile systems. It is interesting for how they succeeded because it effects how we think about China’s air defenses. Ukraine defeated the S-400 anti-missile batteries and radar. Russia has about three times …