Ukraine has struck Russia a blow to two “amphibious” relics of the cold war. And then he has shown it on video

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On October 18, 1960, from the Taganrog airfield, the Soviet Union presented the world with its first flight The Beriev Be-12an amphibious plane designed to perform underwater and maritime patrol missions that over time was expanding its abilities. In fact, Russia continued to keep several models used in the invasion of Ukraine. Until a few days ago. The attack against a relic. The scene took place September 21when Kamikaze drones Ukrainians reached the Kacha air base, in the Crimea occupied, attacking two of the very scarce be-12 amphibians of the Russian Navy and a MI-8 helicopter. The disseminated images By the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense they show the direct impact on one of these devices (identified With number 08) and reinforce the idea that it is the first confirmed attack against this type of aircraft, known In Russia as chaika (Gaviota) and by NATO with the name in a mail key. The action was claimed by the Special Unit “Ghost” of Ukrainian intelligence, underlining the increasingly relevant role of drones in the campaign against infrastructures and military assets in Crimea. The importance of B2-12. As we said at the beginning, the BE-12 was conceived in the sixties as an anti-submarine platform. Lost that main function decades ago, although kept in service in search and rescue configurations and, above all, as a maritime patrol to detect unmanned Ukrainian boats that Hostigan to the Black Sea fleet. With just Six registered devices In 2023 and only four or five in the operational state, the destruction or damage of two of them could mean the reduction to half of the active fleet. Although one of the specimens achieved could have already been out of service, even in that case it was valuable as a source of spare partsa critical resource to prolong the life of the model. The pressure in Crimea. Since the summer of 2022, the BE-12 have been frequently operating On the Crimea coastacting as support in the detection of unmanned vessels, recognition commands and Ukrainian special operations divers. The drone campaign of Ukraine surface, which began with suicidal models and has resulted in reusable platforms capable of launch FPV drones or even gunners, has weakened To the roller and forced fleet the construction of hardened shelters in air bases Like Belbek. The loss of specialized aerial patrols aggravates Russian vulnerability in this scenario, where early intelligence and detection are vital. The sunset of an airplane. The BE-12 has survived multiple stages of obsolescence, from the dissolution of the USSR to its Official withdrawal in 1992re -giving prominence after Crimea Annexation in 2014. However, without substantial modernizations, it lacks viability in an air environment disputed and can only perform secondary missions under conditions of Russian superiority. Its apparent final, precipitated by Ukrainian drones, symbolizes how a war marked by autonomous systems and precision attacks is dismantling the last vestiges of Soviet aviation in the region. Strategic consequences. If you want also, the attack against the BE-12 He fits the Ukrainian strategy to deprive Russia of surveillance and control capacities in the Black Sea, weakening the operating margin of the enclave fleet and undermine military logistics in the Peninsula. Beyond the tactical blow, the action reflects the War transition Towards a scenario in which cheap, autonomous and difficult to counteract systems are able to neutralize expensive and scarce platforms, accelerating Russian wear and questioning Moscow’s ability to keep an increasingly naval aviation operational relic dependent. Image | Commander, US Naval Forces Europe-Africa/US 6th FleetUkrainian Ministry of Defense In Xataka | Two hidden Russian soldiers wrote something unpublished to a drone. That day in Ukraine changed the rules of wars In Xataka | Italy, Germany, Sweden and Finland have done something that seemed unthinkable: throw their fighters in search of Russian airplanes

You have to establish a “red lines” so that the AI ​​does not go out of hand

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On Monday more than 200 personalities and more than 70 organizations joined in a new initiative called Global Call for AI Red Lines (World call to establish red lines in AI). The objective: try to establish clear limits that AI should never cross. Why is it important. The advances in generative are frantic but once again what is prioritized is that development and the commercialization of these models without too many reserves when doing so. According to the signatories of the initiative, “Some advanced IA systems have already shown misleading and harmful behavior, and yet these systems are giving more autonomy to act and make decisions in the world. If not controlled, many experts, including those who are at the forefront of development, warn that it will be increasingly difficult to exercise significant human control in the coming years.” What is requested. The initiative, initiated during the 80th General Assembly of the United Nations, asks that governments act “with decision” and reach “an international agreement on clear and verifiable red lines to avoid universally unacceptable risks.” What are those red lines. What is proposed is specifically prohibit some uses and behaviors of AI that can end up being dangerous. Among them they would be for example prohibit: Those who are. In that group of more than 200 personalities are ten Nobel Prizes, AI experts, scientists, diplomats and even heads of state. Among them are well -known names as those of scientists Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio who already They carry time warning of these dangers. The list is remarkable and they are also experts such as the OpenAi co -leaflet, Wojciech Zarama, or one of Deepmind’s main scientists, Ian Goodfellow. And those who do not. Although in this list of personalities there are very relevant names, it is also significant to verify that this initiative has not been signed by any CEO of one of the large technological companies involved in the field of AI. Although sometimes there have been speeches that pointed out that they were also worried about this issue and the AI ​​had to be regulatedin this case they have not participated in the initiative. Better prevent than cure. Charbel-Raphaël Segerie, responsible for a French agency called Safety Center in AI (CESIA), “the objective is not to react after an important incident occurs, but to avoid largely and potentially irreversible risks before they occur.” The European Act goes in that line. The European Union already created its regulation and launched it In August 2024, and the idea was to establish a series of restrictions based on Risk levels. At the moment the impact of this regulation has been negative, especially because has restricted the use and development of AI models in the EU. So much so that the EU has decided reverse and soften its regulations. And we already have a precedent. Just a few months after the chatgpt launch several experts made a similar request. Among them were Elon Musk – who has not signed this initiative – or Steve Wozniak, which They asked to pause for six months the training of AI models. That does not come anywhere, and without an explicit prohibition that development of AI models has continued unstoppable. In Xataka | “Estimated passengers: comply with the rules to avoid negative points,” China is implementing their social credit

An internal “blablacar” to lower the fumes of its employees

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Telefónica has put on the table a simple idea that has little to do with her Core Business, but much with the mental and economic well -being of its employees: An internal “blablacar” service so that their employees can share a car to go to the offices of Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao. In this way, those who drive can receive a small amount of money that would cover the fuel and maintenance expenses of the vehicle, although the true key of the measure is to better take advantage of displacements by reducing the traffic on accesses to work centers at rush hour. A “carpooling” only for telephone The measure proposed by Telefónica and Ratified by CCOO It can be underway from October 1, and seeks that the private cars of their employees will go more full with colleagues who share the same route. In this sense, Telefónica has not invented anything againor since it is the same concept after companies of Carpooling as Blablacar. The novelty is that Telefónica uses that same approach internally, encouraging its employees to share a car in exchange for a small financial compensation of 15 cents per kilometer. The proposal is articulated through an exclusive app for company workers. From it, you can contact other employees with whom a daily route is shared using a system very similar to Blablacar. An employee with a private car publishes the journey of the day and the stops planned in the application. The rest of the employees can request a place on that route and adjust schedules to go together. On the other hand, trying to make your employees leave the car at home to go to your work centers is not something exclusive to Telefónica. For decades, many companies from all over the country offer Autocar Sunset Services which connects a meeting point established with the company’s facilities. In this case, the objective is double: cover the Public transport deficiencies efficient for your employees to reach your job and reduce the influx of private cars to their facilities. Less cars, less pollution According to CCOO statementThe application allows to generate energy savings certificates by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, which is aligned with the Telefónica strategy to reduce the ecological footprint and improve the quality of life of those who work at its headquarters. According to A study from the University of Zaragoza, the Carpooling manages to clearly reduce the amount of cars that circulate and, with it, contributes to lower emissions pollutants and the co₂ that generates each journey. In International publications On the subject, it is highlighted that sharing a car is a real tool for mitigate pollution in Spanish citiesespecially when the participation of many people adds. Studies on sustained mobility They emphasize that this initiative can support the national emission reduction objectives: the more employees opt for shared car, the easier it is to notice the impact on air and quality of life around large offices. Less stress with company According to A study carried out by the Kennessaw University (USA), sharing a car with other people is associated with the Stress reduction In labor displacements. One of the main causes of Stress during displacement It is the feeling of lack of control against traffic and lost time, but the use of shared car contributes to relieve that pressure and allows you to better take the trip time, promoting a most relaxed and less distressing experience. This has an improvement in general well -being during the working day. Telefónica’s shared car application not only seeks to improve the displacements of multinational employees, but also seeks to strengthen the sense of community in the company. Shared routes make employees of different teams known and support, generating ties beyond work. In Xataka | The shared car can also be a danger, according to the DGT: its advice for the nows Image | Telefónica, Unspash (Nelson Ndongala)

The blue eyes were about to disappear under the Roman Empire. Now we know why

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About 35,000 years ago, in Buran-Kayato the north of the mountains of Crimea, the first person who knows that he had blue eyes died. Since then, the story of the Iris clear has been complex, violent and very interesting. Today, thanks to the improvement of genetic analysis techniques, we know many things. In recent years, it has been said that effectively The Vikings had blue eyesthat the eyes of the steppe peoples were surprisingly dark and that, during the Roman Empire, the clear eyes almost disappeared. How do we know all this? Davide Piffer used 4,133 old genomes (They covered 44,000 years) to explain when the blue eyes arose, how they were selected generation after generation and why today there are people who still have them. Why do we have blue eyes? At the genetic level, which is what interests us in this case, the explanation is simple: As Piffer himself explained“Blue eyes genetics focuses on two neighboring genes on chromosome 15: OCA2 that controls the production of melanin in the iris, and Herc2 which contains a regulatory element “. In the case of brown eyes, “Herc2 ‘active’ OCA2 effectively to produce enough pigment.” With blue eyes, the situation is different: a mutation in RS12913832 weakens HERC2 control and the least amount of melanin is perceived as bluish or greenish eyes. That is, there is a genetic ‘trace’ that allows us to dive in ancient DNA to know how (with a certain degree of variability) the eyes of our ancestors. What did you discover? This is how Piffer confirmed That the Vikings had mostly blue eyes, the steppe peoples had them darker than expected and that the current prevalence of clear eyes is due to fairly recent factors. He also discovered something curious: that the story of Rome is much more complicated than it seems. While in ancient Rome the blue eyes appear in 22.2%of the population and in medieval Rome in 21.4%, during the empire that figure fell 4.2%. What happened here? The best known explanation. For Pifferthis agrees with the increase in European northwestern descent during those periods. During the first period, although the genetic base is mostly anatolia, there was a high influence of Yamnas groups. During the last one, the arrival of Germanic groups “such as longobardos and ostrogods” would change the general genetic mix. On the other hand, during the years of Roman hegemony, the most purely Latin features had disproportionate prestige that caused a boom of brown eyes. For years, this has been part of the consensus of populations genetics. However, it is not so clear. The demograph Lyman Stone He analyzed exhaustively The Roman genomes of those 4,133 samples to determine if we really had sufficient data to talk about the eyes of the Romans. Their conclusions, between failures in dating and historical confusion, are that we do not have them. According to Stone, there are reasons to think that in the metropolitan area of ​​Rome the blue eyes were reduced (as a consequence of the increase in immigration). In the same way, it is very likely that in the empire there were more people with brown eyes in 200 d. C. that in 300 d. C. (After all, the Empire grew hugely). This is true even if Bologna’s genetics did not change at all. What about blue eyes, then? It is a question that, for the first time, we have technology to answer. However, we have no samples to do so. As Lyman saidold DNA is a fantastic tool, but it is still difficult to interpret correctly. So the answer to the initial question (why (do we believe) the Romans did not have blue eyes?) It is simple: because we do not have enough data. And this configures our world vision much more often than we are willing to admit. Image | Amanda Dalbjörn | Clemens van Lay In Xataka | Every time you think about everything the Romans managed to do, remember that they did it intoxicated with lead

“Circular financing” between Nvidia and Openai can be the genius of the century … or collapse

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Nvidia has announced A “strategic investment” of up to 100,000 million dollars in Openai. But it is an investment with trap: Openai will use that money to buy Nvidia chips. The semiconductor manufacturer thus becomes the financier of its own most important client. Why is it important. This maneuver dangerously reminds the “circular financing” schemes that characterized the end of the 2000 Puntocom bubble. Companies like Lucent, Nortel and Cisco financed operators as Global Crossing to buy them equipment. We are not the first to see this simile At this stage of AI. When the bubble exploded, both suppliers and customers sank into a spiral of debts and overcapacity. The agreement will allow OpenAI to build data centers with a joint capacity of 10 gigawatts, equivalent to about 10 nuclear reactors. Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has acknowledged that this represents between 4 and 5 million GPUS: “double those we distributed last year.” Brutal scale In figures. The numbers are astronomical. According to Huang himself in August, creating a 1 Gigavatio data center costs between 50,000 and 60,000 million dollars, of which about 35,000 million are destined for Nvidia chips. With that logic, the 10 projected gigawatts would cost more than 500,000 million dollars. The bags have reacted with euphoria: Nvidia shares rose almost 4%, adding 170,000 million dollars to their stock market capitalization. Jensen Huang Broza’s company is already 4.5 billion dollars of valuation. Yes, but. Parallelism with the ‘Puntocom’ bubble is disturbing. These same schemes of ‘Financing vendor‘We already saw them in the final stage of the 2000 technological bubble. They did not end well for any of the parties. The difference is that current numbers are much larger, even adjusting for inflation. The key is whether the productivity profits of the generative AI will compensate for the spent money. Between bambalins. The agreement explains the current situation in the AI ​​ecosystem: OpenAi desperately needs computing capacity to maintain its competitive advantage over the 700 million weekly users of their products. But infrastructure costs are so high that it needs constant external financing. Nvidia, on the other hand, seeks to ensure the future demand of its most advanced chips. The agreement guarantees mass orders while consolidating its dominant position against competitors such as AMD and Intel. “It is a closed cycle: Nvidia gives OpenAi money, and OpenAi uses it to buy Nvidia products,” Summary Summary Javier Pastor. The threat. Anti -Ponopoopoly experts are already arched eyebrows. Andre Barlow, a lawyer specialized in competition, explained to Reuters that “the agreement could change the economic incentives of NVIDIA and OpenAI, potentially blocking the Nvidia chips monopoly with OpenAi software leadership.” The structure creates extra barriers so that competitors such as AMD in OpenAi chips or rivals in AI models can climb their operations. They paint basts. In perspective. The story is full of similar schemes that ended badly. Global Crossing, the telecommunications operator that broke in 2002it was funded precisely by the same suppliers that sold equipment. When it was discovered that the real demand was much lower than the projected, both Global Crossing and its financiers lost thousands. The key question is whether the demand for AI services will be sufficient to justify this billionaire investment, or if we are faced with the recreation of the same speculative pattern with even more exorbitant figures. As Stacy Rasgon concludesBernstein analyst: “On the one hand, Openai helps meet very ambitious infrastructure objectives. On the other hand, it will further feed concerns about ‘circular’ financing.” Outstanding image | In Xataka | Openai estimates that it will enter 200,000 million dollars in 2030. The figure, like everything in OpenAi, is extremely ambitious

dangerous curves and a fatal accident

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Curves surrounded by concrete walls. Some accompanied by exits to different parts of the city and others with important slopes. The Madrid entrance by the A-5 has not only become a nightmare of traffic jams and an ordeal for neighbors. Now, driving for her has become dangerous. What had they told us. When the Madrid City Council presented the project to underground entrance to Madrid On the A-5 road he mentioned that the works would be compatible with the traffic circulation. The idea is that one of the two sides (the entrance) becomes underground to, in a second phase, the vehicles will circulate underground and begin the underground of the other sense of the circulation. Then it was sold (and so it happened at first) that all the traffic would move first to one side of the road and then pass the other. That is, we would have entrance and exit lanes but there should not be many more inconvenience than those of finding a greater volume of withholdings. Section with curves and flush changes where the death of a motorist has been recorded Curves come. What they did not explain at the Madrid City Council is how it was going to happen at the entrance to the capital from the left side (the usual direction of departure) to the neighborhoods of Aluche or Lucero (which fall to the right of the road). Nor, on the contrary, these neighborhoods would be passed in the direction of the road. The solution has been to divert the road into specific points. For this, a succession of curves has been created that usually involves two S. From the left side in the capital, there is first a right-left succession and, subsequently, left-right. In the middle an exit to the surrounding neighborhood is generated. As you can see in the image that heads this article. Dangerous. The curves are closed, they use narrower lanes than usual To gain space in both sensesthey are delimited by concrete walls and in some cases there are grounding changes to go over the underground work. There are with a crosswalk included. And we even have a very dangerous exit of the gas station that you see in the image, right next to the output of the Boadilla road. If you have recently circulated through those sections, it is very likely that you have felt true (and logical) danger. I will tell you more, you are not alone. Collect in Telemadrid That the complaints have multiplied and the Madrid City Council is valuing to suppress these curves to facilitate the journeys and improve security. At 20 km/h. The solution that has occurred so far is to limit the circulation in some sections to 20 or 30 km/h. It is a measure that goes beyond caution, circulating above that speed is to play it against the wall and have a good scare. At the beginning of September, A motorist died after it was overwhelmed by a tourism. The camp area, where the accident happened, is especially dangerous because there is a double curve in S, there is an elevation of the land and, in addition, the exit to the Boadilla road in the offense is next to the exit of the gas station that accompanies this article and the poster is barely displayed. Better signaling. It is another complaints of the drivers of which they echo Telemadrid. The signaling of the outputs is clearly small and insufficient. In each output, the signal is arranged in the vertex of the same but there are no previous notices. In addition, the size is small, the usual for this type of outputs but without, as we say, the previous signage. That generates greater risks and unforeseen since the layout can change slightly every night as the works advance. And it is especially complicated for those who circulate once or twice a week along this road and, therefore, are more sensitive to changes. More and more inconvenience. The underground of the A-5 is also affecting the day-to-day life of the neighbors. Yesterday, September 22, a problem during the work of the operators has left a large part of the adjacent homes and businesses. In addition, the increase in requests in the coverage of the mobile network caused the collapse for some companies or the impossibility of using services such as Bicimad, as we could verify. It is just one more chapter in works that are causing serious inconvenience to the residents of the area by The noise and transfer of trucks or excavators. But also with Internet, Light and Water that since the works begin, they are leaving the residents without basic supplies without prior notice. Photos | Xataka In Xataka | The icing on the cake to the works of Madrid: the city has become a gymkana of reforms, cuts and discomfort

Kojima’s ‘Od’ trailer not only reveals the most scary video game in years. It also brings back to its competitors

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As an elephant in a potter has broken into the conversation the trailer of the new video game of Hideo Kojima. Visually overwhelming, it also promises a considerable ration. And yet, that is not the most striking of the trailer, but also functions as a conglomerate of messages between lines directly directed for competitors and former partners. This kojima never gives stitch. What is seen. Some unknown knocks on a door (the ‘Knock’ of the full title of the game: ‘OD: Knock’) and slide inside a house a card in which the fires are requested “(or the candles). Then, in the first person, inside a seemingly empty house, some trembling female hands light with matches the candles of an altar with some sinister candles (a baby head that melts expelling a liquid that looks like blood, while a large number of worms leave a jar close to the altar). Behind the person who is before the altar, someone or something insistently calls for the door of the room. The hands belong to a terrified Sophia Lillis, who feels behind her a threatening presence, who ends up opening the door, entering the room and surrounding her with giant hands. Impressive realism. Animations are, as always happens with Kojima’s kinematics, spectacular. To the point that in a first viewing, until our hands do not appear it is not clear that we are in a digital environment. All thanks to the Metahuman technology that uses Unreal Engine 5. A demonstration of technical muscle that, however, retroaches us a decade ago in time. Vietnam flashbacks. Specifically, from ‘The PT‘, an enigmatic Kojima game for Konami that was born as a new’ Silent Hill ‘and that remained in a mere technical demo, today impossible to find by legal roads, and that many consider that it is one of the most scary video games of all time. In this new ‘OD: Knock’ there are obvious winks to that ‘The PT’ from the same title with acronym, the temporary reference to a decade ago, some of the setting (the house as a framework for fear, without open spaces) and even the participation of a filmmaker in the project (there Guillermo del Toro, here Jordan Pele). It could be said that the output of ‘OD’ now, when ten years are turned out that Kojima left pears with Konami, is a perverse anniversary celebration. Especially now that the Japanese company … takes out the new ‘Silent Hill F’ this week. It seems almost a late revenge, with Kojima monopolizing some of the attention that Konami’s game was going to have this week. For you, screaming. But there is more. This game will be exclusive to Xbox, at least temporarily and there some sneer is detected with the farewell of the video, “For All Players and Screamers”. Winking to the popular PlayStation slogan “for the players” (“For you, players” in Spanish translation)? Of course, if it becomes an absolute exclusive Xbox, it will be a good Microsoft zambombazo, although seeing its recent policy of Turn everything into multiplatformit does not seem likely. But there is the recoven. Ten years of Kojima Productions. The producer of Kohima is celebrating in style her tenth anniversary with a ristra of advertisements and news in the event ‘Beyond the Strand’. It has been seen live hereand in addition to the shocking trailer of OD, we have seen Details about the A24 adaptation of ‘Death Stranding’the animated film ‘Death Stranding Mosquito‘, from which we have seen a teaser, the new stealth game’ Physint ‘, and the announcement of a collaboration with Niantic Spatial also linked to Death Stranding. In Xataka | Kojima locks himself again in his bubble with ‘Death Stranding 2’. The result is a work as strange as necessary

India will spend a fortune on having its own chips industry. The problem is not just money

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India has approved An investment of 18.2 billion dollars To develop ten semiconductor projects and thus create an entire chip industry from scratch. The country wants to reduce its dependence on imports and compete with powers such as Taiwan and United Statesbut the country will be necessary for more than money to execute its strategy. Ambition is disproportionate. India is one of the largest consumers of electronic devices in the world, but it does not practically No local chips industry. Its implementation in the semiconductors aims to create the entire supply chain, from the design to the manufacture, tests and packaging, in the region. The approved projects include two manufacturing plants of semiconductors and multiple test and packaging factories. The opportunity of India. The race began in 2022, when the United States restricted chips exports of advanced to China. This triggered a global competition for self -sufficiency in semiconductors, and for India was a golden opportunity to reduce imports and capture a greater share of the global market of electronic devices that moves away from China. Beyond money. Stephen Ezell, Vice President of Global Innovation Policy in Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, Explain which India needs “more than a few semiconductor factories.” The Executive explains that leading manufacturers “consider up to 500 different factors before investing billions in a plant”, including talent, fiscal policies, labor regulations, technological infrastructure and customs policies, areas in which India still has pending work. The Government changes strategy. New Delhi has modified its approach initial. In 2022 he focused only on advanced chips of 28 nanometers or less, but this did not help develop the nascent Indian industry. Now the government finances 50% of the costs of all manufacturing projects, regardless of the size of the chip, and also supports the test and packaging units. Star projects are already underway. The largest current project is the semiconductor manufacturing plant of 11,000 million dollars That Tata Electronics builds in Gujarat, in association with the Taiwanese Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. The installation will produce chips for energy management, screen controllers and microcontrollers that can be used in AI, automotive and data storage. Talent exists, but it is limited. India has a reserve of engineers who already work for global chips design companies since the 90s. However, Jayanth BR, recruiter with more than 15 years of experience in the sector, Explain that international companies only subcontract design validation work “at the block level” to India. The central design remains in the United States or Singapore. Intellectual property is the great challenge. Sajai Singh, partner of the Jsa Jsa Advocates & Requests, Point out that India must update its intellectual property laws and improve application mechanisms. “Our competition is with countries like the United States, Europe and Taiwan, which not only have solid Pi laws, but also a more consolidated ecosystem for chips design,” he explains. And now what. The next three or four years will be decisive for the objectives of semiconductors of India, according to Sujay Shetty, general director of semiconductors at PWC India. There are still factors that India must stop, since manufacturing plants require specific locations without flooding or vibrations, with reliable road connections and suppliers of specialized chemicals that meet standards of ultraralta purity. India is still far from producing 2 nanometers avant -garde chips, but could find its niche in assembly and semiconductor tests, a sector with lower capital requirements and better margins. Cover image | Brian Kostiuk and Naveed Ahmed In Xataka | The undisputed winner of the aggressive competition of TSMC, Intel and Samsung is a European company: ASML

Now the hunt is in charge of a lethal drone army

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It is no secret that Lockheed Martin’s F-35 summer was not the best of all. After the plane stranded for a month In India, the reverse from Spain to an order (to which they have added other countries), A second breakdown of a hunt, this time in Japan, and a report that questioned the plane and its sophisticated software Because of the iceyou could say that the storm has passed. In fact, the United States has a message: F-35 will be more Powerful that never. The technological commitment. Yes, Lockheed Martin has undertaken a decisive leap in the evolution of the F-35 Lightning II by incorporating advanced capabilities of Enjambres control of drones through artificial intelligence. With an investment of about 100 million dollars in programs such as The career projectthe company seeks to transform hunting not only into a versatile and furtive combat plane, but an authentic Air Command Center capable of directing unmanned vehicles in recognition, electronic warfare or coordinated attacks. The objective: maintain American aerial supremacy against increasingly complex threats, betting on synergy between manned aircraft and autonomous systems in a network combat ecosystem. Synergy Man -Machine and Remote Control. The integration of AI allows the F-35 to communicate In real time With drones, processing a lot of volumes of data and making instant decisions that extend their operational scope far beyond their own sensors. In recent tests It was checked That an F-35 could directly control a drone, which opens the door to operations in which the plane can “see” and attack objectives through intermediary platforms without putting the pilot at direct risk. Moreover, Lockheed proposes that F-35 itself have An optional mode not manned, which would reduce costs compared to the development of a sixth generation hunting from scratch and allowed to take advantage of the cells already produced with greater degree of autonomy. The autonomous era. The F-35 was born from the program Joint Strike Fighter which in 2001 granted the victory to Lockheed against Boeing. Since then it has evolved in three variants (F-35a of conventional takeoff, F-35b of short takeoff and vertical landing, and F-35c embarked) and has become a key piece of several branches of the US and Allied armed forces. This 2025 is expected to deliver Up to 190 unitswhich reflects the magnitude of the program and the confidence of the company in its long -term validity. However, the complexity of the system raises risks, as evidenced by the Incident in Alaska in which a pilot had to eject after almost an hour of solution attempts with Lockheed engineers, and that underlines the need for exhaustive tests before displaying large -scale autonomous capabilities. The integrated air dominance vision. The weight of these developments lies greatly in the Skunk Works division of Lockheed, which raises a concept of “Integrated air dominance” in which the F-35 will benefit from sixth generation technologies, including advanced autonomy, interoperability with swarms and improvements of furtiveness. Associated companies such as Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems strengthen the capacities in electronic warfare and surveillance, expanding the network of connected functions. Sector analysts interpret this strategy as A calculated movement in front of rivals like Boeing, especially after loss of a contract of new generation fighters, and as a way of presenting the F-35 as a bridge to completely autonomous fleets. DRON VECTIS The birth of Vectis. It is the device that explains the U-35 update. Skunk Works has presented these days DRON VECTISa large non -manned air combat system (Group 5) conceived under philosophy Agile Drone Framework. The framework prioritizes modularity, interoperability and rapid adaptability against changing threats, so that the vectis is not defined by a closed hardware, but by its ability to integrate Useful loads, control architectures and diverse missions according to the needs of each operator. The name, of Latin origin, refers to the “lever” that the system represents to multiply air power. Your first prototype is expected to fly in a two -year periodafter having surpassed Skunk Works his initial proposal “too sophisticated” that was out of the first phase of the program Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) of the United States Air Force. Furtive design The revealed images They show a drone without queue, air inlets mounted on the top, tilted nose line and an S duct that reduces the radar and infrared firm. Its exact dimensions have not been published, although it is known that it is less than an F-16 but greater than the CMMT missile drones of Lockheed herself. The Vectis is designed to operate from conventional clues, although with a view to a future in which it can adapt to austere environments or dispersed bases under concepts such as AGILE COMBAT EMPLOYMENT (ACE). Its architecture allows compact radars, infrared sensors, electronic war systems or retransmission packages to be installed, in addition to carrying air-air and air-surface missiles from internal wineries. In addition, it does not seek to reach supersonic speeds, but Prioritize rankinessresistance and multimisional flexibility. Accompanying hunting. As we said before, the vectis is fully integrated with fifth and sixth generation platforms, as the F-22 and F-35that they can exercise Control nodes To direct dwarfs. In fact, simulations already made show the ability to use it In air defense missionssuppression of anti -aircraft defenses, intelligence, surveillance and recognition. Its open mission architecture, aligned with Washington’s reference standards, allows compatibility with multinational systems and opens the door to use by US allies. Lockheed underlines The importance of intuitive control interfaces, such as touch screens, so that pilots can order maneuvers or armament throws without overloading their workload. The system is designed to fly daily in training, but also to be stored and deployed on demandwhich provides logistics and strategic flexibility. Challenges and the future. The development of an F-35 capable of Direct drone swarms advanced Like the Vectis Raise strategic and ethical questions about the level of acceptable autonomy in war operations. Meanwhile, the logic of the pentagon of moving towards the war in network supports the need … Read more

This is the first treprel-c of PLD Space

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The heart of the Spanish rocket Miura 5 has taken shape. PLD Space presented on Monday The first fully integrated unit of the Treprel-C motor. It is not a minor achievement: with 190 km By a private company in Europe. And it is on its way to its first lit. Heat, you go out. PLD Space has not stopped this summer. Nor in its facilities in Teruel airport, where a few days ago, a tank of the future Miura 5 loaded with liquid oxygen He exceeded successfully A breakage test at cryogenic temperature. Nor in its headquarters and factory of Elche, where the first fully integrated Treprel-C engine has just left. This first model, aimed at qualification tests, contains the largest turbobombes developed by a European startup and represents a giant technological leap to the miura tapTell-B engine. After the engineering phase, integration and tests “hardware-in-the-loop, the propeller will be submitted in Teruel to a complete cycle and a series of ignition tests to ensure that you are ready to fly. This is the Treprel-C. Acronym for “Spanish technology for reusable spatial propulsion for pitchers”, the Treprel-C engine uses an open cycle fed by a gas generator with a single monoaex turbobomb pump. According to the PLD Space CEO, Raúl Torresthe engine burns approximately 80 kg of RP-1 kerosene and liquid oxygen per second. The first stage of Miura rocket 5 It will be driven by five treprel-C, which have a height of 2 meters and a 62 centimeter nozzle diameter. In total, they will make 950 kN of thrust. PLD Space also works on climbing the production of its factory to achieve a manufacturing rate of an engine every two weeks before the end of the year. The most advanced in its class. With its 190 kN, the Treprel-C is the most powerful private engine of its type between manufacturers of European microlanzers. An infographic of Daniel Marín Put the figures in perspective: Helix (RFA): The German Rocket Factory Augsburg Develop the Helix engine, which will propel the RFA One rocket. Nine of these engines, which use a stages combustion cycle, will generate a 100 kN thrust. Aquila (Isar Aerospace): also from Germany, Isar Aerospace Bet on the Aquila engine for its Spectrum rocket. With a gas generator cycle, each of its nine engines provides 75 kN of thrust, using propane and liquid oxygen as propellents. SkyForce (Skyorora): in the United Kingdom, Skyorora He works at the SkyForce engine for his Skyorra XL pitcher. This engine, which burns hydrogen and peroxide, reaches 70 kn of thrust. Prime (Orbex): The British also Orbex He has developed the Prime engine for his homonymous rocket. It is the smallest of the comparison, with a thrust of only 30 kN Spain wants to take off. With these data, the PLD Space Treprel-C not only folds the second engine on the list, but consolidates the position of the Spanish company at the forefront of the development of pitchers in Europe, as demonstrated by a recent contract of ESA For PLD to develop a guide, navigation and control system (CNG), While it is the most important, Elche is only one of the Spanish New Space axes. In Barcelona, ​​the PANgea Propulsion company (Before Pangaa Aerospace) Develop a different concept with its Aerospike Arcos engine. This technological demonstrator, designed modularly for higher stages, promises a push of 750 kN. Images | PLD Space In Xataka | PLD Space has a detailed plan to become the European rocket factory. And the pieces have started fitting

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