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convert trucks and containers into a take-off runway for drones

July 2, 2026 by usatoday24

China is exploring an unusual idea even for a time when Drones have become protagonists of almost any military conversation: take some of the logic of an aviation catapult from the aircraft carrier and bring it to trucks and containers. We are not talking, at least with the information available, of a fully demonstrated operational capacity or a substitute for a conventional naval deck. What we have seen in open sources points rather to a modular concept: a removable take-off runway for drones where there is no runway. The last push to the issue has been given by a video spread on Chinese networks. The original post has been deleted, but can be traced back to uan archived post from the WeChat account associated with the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology. Additionally, the video comes after other tracks: previous photos of the systemits appearance in the vicinity of the Zhong Da 79 ship and a family of military modules in containers that point in the same direction. A catapult outside the aircraft carrier In the most recent images, the system appears to be made up of three trucks that can move separately and then join together to create a single launch line. The sequence shows the takeoff of a propeller drone, with a high wing, V-tail and tricycle landing gear, an aircraft much lighter than the possible models, with which this concept had been visually associated in previous images. There are also upper covers and four-wheel steering, which would allow the assembly to be oriented with more room for maneuver. Capture of the recently released video, which shows the launch of a drone from the mobile electromagnetic catapult made up of several trucks The catapult, in any case, is just one part of a broader family of containerized military systems. Material attributed to the School of Mechanical Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology includes modules with anti-ship missile launchers, land attack missiles, surface-to-air missiles, close-in defense, radars, electronic warfare, and command and control. Containers designed to transport a catapult truck and a disassembled drone also appear. According to that publication, the goal would be to produce 2,000 containerized systems per year. Capture of the recently released video It is no coincidence that the concept revolves around an electromagnetic catapult. China has already taken important steps in that technology with the Fujianthe aircraft carrier that marks its leap toward catapult operations and detained deck recovery. This context helps to understand why this mobile system is interesting: it was not born as an isolated technical oddity, but within a stronger commitment to expand ways to put aircraft in the air. Type 076 Sichuanan amphibious assault ship associated in open sources with drone operations, points in a similar direction. Capture of the recently released video The entire photo goes beyond visual weirdness. China is not only expanding its naval aviation, it has also been pushing advanced aviation programs for years such as the J-20, its fifth-generation stealth fighter, and the J-35, a design associated with the leap towards more modern ship-borne operations. The mobile catapult doesn’t play in the same league as those planes, but it fits the same question: how to deploy more air capacity from more places. One of the first known images of the complex, in which the catapult trucks can be seen together with possible models of unmanned aircraft If the system worked as the published material suggests, its usefulness would be in bringing assisted launches to places where a conventional runway is not available or is too vulnerable. We are talking about islands, remote areas, prepared roads, temporary bases or ships with sufficient deck space. It would not serve to deploy any aircraft or to replace a complete aerial infrastructure, but it could bring light drones closer to specific areas of operation. In scenarios like this, every kilometer that the drone does not have to travel from a distant base counts. The list of unknowns remains long. We do not know what electrical power the system needs, what logistical footprint it requires, how the drones are charged before each launch or what actual cadence it could sustain outside of a controlled demonstration. There are also doubts about their use at sea: one thing is to place the modules on the deck of a ship with enough space and another is to launch drones with stability while the ship moves. The difference between teaching a demonstrator and having a useful military capability is still enormous. Images | Beijing Institute of Technology/WeChat In Xataka | Every year a veterinarian, a jurist, a psychoanalyst and a gardener meet. They are the secret owners of rearmament in Europe

New York has released its new and revolutionaries garbage containers. They have been in Spain for decades

June 4, 2025 by usatoday24

They call it “The garbage revolution”although it really has little revolutionary. At least for any European accustomed to doing something as simple as throwing their waste into the garbage can. On Monday the New York authorities They took chest announcing its new and brand new strategy to manage the waste of the Big Apple, a pilot program that is now bounded to a neighborhood and,, according to their driversit will be a pioneer throughout the United States. So far not surprising beyond political rhetoric. The funny thing is what New York wants to boost that peculiar “revolution” of cleaning: with garbage cubes and trucks such as those seen in the streets of Spain for decades. Garbage. In New York, workers of the garbage collection service are forced to do something less and less frequent in Spain and most European cities: withdraw on the sidewalks plastic bags full of waste and throw them to the rear of a truck. For them it is a Latoso work. For the city, a problem: the bags are piled up in the streets, hinder the passage, generate bad odors, overthrow liquid and attract rats. In fact, the New York town hall has already had to see them with Rodents. That is why in countries like Spain a different strategy has been chosen for a long time. Collectors are installed in the streets so that citizens can throw their garbage bags inside, leaving them safe from rats and seagulls. Over the years the system has been purified with wild boar cubes, collectors endowed with Electronic locks that are unlocked with special cards and systems that facilitate the discharge of garbage inside the trucks. Revolution in New York. After half a century Of “accumulation of garbage in streets”, in New York they have decided to say enough and change their garbage collection model for a new one, very similar to that of Europe. The first step was taken in 2023, when the authorities demanded from the businesses of the food branch (from bars to supermarkets) that they deposit their waste in containers. A year ago that obligation extended to all companies and in recent months the same standard has been making its way between small residential buildings. The great change has now arrived with a pilot test in the streets of the Community Board 9 of Manhattan, where the use of containers will apply to all types of residential buildings, from small blocks of less than ten homes to the largest, with more than 30. The City Council claims that the neighborhood has thus become “the first neighborhood of North America to have 100% of its garbage in containers” and even speaks of a “garbage revolution.” An old flavor revolution. The most curious thing is that this revolution really has little revolutionary. At least from the perspective of Europeans, who have been (if not decades) accustomed to the tools with which New York now wants to improve the management of their garbage. The reason is simple: the change in the Harlem will basically be supported on three pieces, all integrated for a long time in the urban landscape of the Spanish cities: Empire garbage cubes with capacity for 3,000 L, collectors with wheels and side load trucks. Closed and card cubes. Over the last weeks the New York Health Department has dedicated itself to installing in West Harlem around 1,100 Empire containerswhich are the ones that present a small novelty. Unlike most garbage cubes that can be seen in Europe, these collectors will not be available to any neighbor who passes through the sidewalk. They will remain closed and their use will be assigned exclusively to a building, which can access the collector thanks to a special card. In fact, residents will not even pull the bags in the cube. The idea It is that they leave them in an area of collection in the building itself and the cubes themselves handle them the staff of the buildings or the waste managers. It is not the model that is usually used in Spain, although here They also look card collectors. Measuring buildings. The largest blocks of West Harlem, those with more than 30 homes, have been assigned Great Empire Garbage Cubes. Those between 30 and 10 apartments are allowed to choose between that smaller model or containers with wheels and the buildings with less than a dozen families are asked to use 200 l cubes. To expedite the work of the operators, a year ago the City Council also presented a prototype of garbage collection truck with lateral load that can be handled by only two operators. In November the Consistory has already asked these smaller buildings for residential use to start using containers, which has a first idea of what is their result. Your conclusions? “The first data show that the use of containers is working: since the demands entered into force, six months ago, the number of rats has decreased,” celebrate. A revolution with challenges. New York is discovering more than the use of containers. He has also encountered the challenges they represent. The New York Times public A chronicle This same Monday explaining how cleaning service employees have to deal with double -row cars that block the cubes and prevent trucks from accessing them. It also warns of the impact they will have on the parking spaces. The municipal authorities already calculate that expanding the program to the entire city would demand to eliminate 50,000 spaces to park vehicles. That without having the hundreds of millions of dollars that would require buying garbage cubes and collection trucks capable of attending the entire population of the Big Apple. Critics write down a “but” more: That the initiative to recycling does not expand. Image | City of New York In Xataka | The cities emptied during the pandemic. The rats took advantage of him to impose his reign

60% less reservations in ship containers

April 24, 2025 by usatoday24

The Commercial War Not only is it felt in the bags and currency markets. Its seismic effect is Said clear In the oceans, where the ships that move navigate More than 80% of the World Commercial. And there is one in particular in which the tariff pulse between Washington and Beijing is noticeable: the Pacific. There logistics companies have already perceived how, after the 145% rates rise imposed by Donald Trump to China, the Container reserves and the maritime traffic that leaves the Chinese ports towards the US He is losing bellows. The big question is: What comes now? From the offices to the ports. International trade has a great operations scenario and is neither the parquet nor the offices of the CEO. No. They are the oceans. United Nations calculates that More than 80% International trade moves by sea, on board ships that may be slower than airplanes, but also offer a much cheaper transport alternative. Hence, when a few weeks ago Trump presented his famous Tariff tablewith a long list of rates for merchandise exports to the US, one of the places where more was felt Its effect were the seas and ports. In early April the container reserves for the United States fell more than 60%. Something expected if you consider that many companies They had advanced Your operations to anticipate the coup. Looking at the Pacific. That first shopping war agated the markets, but soon softened when Trump announced a 90 -day truce which set a global tariff base of “only” 10%. Where the tension was not relaxed in China. Beijing and Washington engaged in a tariff pulse that derived (for the moment) in an escalation of the rates that both countries impose on exports of the other: USA applied 145% To China and this replied with 125%that in some cases, including agricultural products, It rises to 135%. The impact of that rise in costs on the maritime flow of merchandise between the two countries soon noticed. In the middle of the month South China Morning Post (SCMP) I spoke now From a puncture in container traffic on transpacific routes, travel cancellation and a collapse in load reserves for the following weeks between 30% and 60% in China and 10-20% in the rest of Asia. The reason: US tariffs complicated the viability of Chinese exports. And that are major words if one takes into account that, like Remember the CNBCChina represents about 30% of all imports via US container and more than half (54%) of those from Asia. Before the pandemic, in 2018, it even monopolized 67%. There are now transpacific shipping companies in charge of that commercial flow that have resorted to Blank Sailing and canceled trips. Click on the image to go to Tweet. And what is the stage now? Complicated. Hapag-Lloyd German shipping company He just recognized to Five days that has registered a cancellation of reserves “from China to the US” of around 30% and the CNBC warned On Tuesday of a fall in the flow of Chinese ships in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. Specifically, he points out that the southern docks of California have registered a 29% collapse in the traffic of containers with Chinese origin. Yesterday Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, went further and He contributed a fact Even more devastating in X: “In the three weeks after the tariffs, maritime container reserves from China to the United States have decreased more than 60% throughout the industry.” If we talk about forecasts, the flow of ships expected for the week of May 4 to 10 will register a major year -on -year fallof 44%. What does that translate? In many less containers. The week of April 20 those US ports received 22 ships. This week 12. Translated into Teus, the large unit of load measurement, assumes that the week of May 4 to 10 will be 62,668 compared to 120,608 scored from April 20 to 26. Half. “Shipments have interrupted”. “I am hearing direct retailers and manufacturers here in the US that many have interrupted all shipments from China,” Recognize Axios Gene Seroka, executive of the Los Angeles terminal. “It is likely that in the coming weeks we will see two thirds of the normal load, or less.” The expert admits Also a fall of between 8 and 10% in US exports in recent months and does not rule out that the trend is exacerbated by Chinese tariffs. Beyond China. That the commercial war has weighed the demand for containers from China to the US does not mean that the trend is the same for the entire region. On the contrary. Hapag-Lloyd is noticing for example more than reservations from China to the US. In Your interview with Five daysone of its managers, Nils Hauct, also speaks of a “considerable increase” in the volume of reserves from Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. And it makes enough sense that it is. Not long ago the investment bank Goldman Sachs He already warned that, taking advantage of the 90 -day tariff truce approved by Trump, there are companies that have begun to look for alternatives outside China. And they do it looking at neighboring countries, included in Southeast Asia. “In the short term, the activity in Southeast Asia is recovering due to the production output from China to where there is available capacity,” Write. Moreover, in its report it points out that a part (20%) of Chinese manufacturers have resorted to their facilities outside China to benefit from their tariffs. Are there more consequences? Yes, there are. On other fronts. The puncture in the demand has aggravated the fall in the prices of freight on routes such as Shanghai-Los Angeles. Supply chain Precise That this goes on the rate of container rates for Chinese exports have collapsed 28%, marking their worst exercise start of the last two decades. The commercial war is also felt on other fronts of the logistics sector, such as storage or road transport that … Read more

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