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The US is relocating military airplanes in the middle of the Middle East. The B-2 has not come into play, but already intimidated

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While Iran and Israel continue to exchange attacks, United States has begun to reinforce His military presence in Middle East. The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegesh, confirmed last night Through a publication in X that he had ordered “the deployment of additional capacities” to protect his forces and improve defensive position in the region. As detailed Media as Reuters and BBCthe deployment includes the USS Nimitz aircraft carriers, one of the key pieces of the US Navy. On board they can travel to 5,000 people and more than 60 aircraft, including fighters, light bombers and support planes. They have also mobilized at least 30 cistern aircraftmostly KC-135 Stratotankers and KC-46 Pegasus, next to a fighter fleet composed of models such as F-16, F-22 and F-35. HEREWORKS, fighters and a pending question: B-2 But in the midst of this climb, many looks are directed to an unknown that plans on the US strategy: will the bomber end up mobilizing B-2 Spirit? There is a clear reason for that question. This is the only aircraft under direct control in the United States that is certified to transport and launch the GBU-57/B MASSIVE ORDNANCE PENETATORa pump designed to pierce high depth underground structures. That capacity is not a simple technical detail. According to various estimatesthe GBU-57 could be one of the few weaponss capable of reaching fordow, Iranian uranium enrichment installation excavated under a mountain, about 80 or 90 meters deep. No one has confirmed it, but the B-2 Spirit already flies over the hypotheses. The simple possibility that the United States mobilizes it is enough to alter the strategic conversation. Justin Bronk, of the Royal United Services Institute, He made it clear: The current type of deployment is “highly indicative” that Washington is preparing to support “intensive combat operations” in the region. The B-2 would be the strongest piece of that support. Its scope, 9,650 km without repostingallows you to operate from some key locations. He usually does it from Whiteman, in Misuri. Other options on the table are Fairford, in the United Kingdom, and Diego García, a remote base in the Indian Ocean leased by the United Kingdom to the United States. The B-2 Spirit is not the fastest or newest bomber, but it is one of the most difficult to detect. Its steering wing -shaped design, added to special materials and a low flight profile, allows you to penetrate highly sophisticated air defense systems. It is precisely where its value lies: it can fly where others could not. It measures 52 meters of wingspan and 21 meters long, and is propelled by four general electric F118-GE-100 engines. It has a 15,000 meter operational roof And, as we have seen, an Intercontinental Alance. Your load capacity Round the 20 tonsand can carry both conventional and nuclear armament. It is created by two people, much less than in other heavy bombers such as B-1b or B-52, and its missions are coordinated from a limited network of strategic bases. Its maintenance is the responsibility of the American Air Force, with the support of contractors led by Northrop Grumman. There are only 19 active units. The B-2 began to fly in 1989 and is not a resource that unfolds lightly. Its value is not only in technology that makes it undetectable, but in its ability to combine Stealth, scope and attack power On a single platform. It is, in many ways, the letter that is kept until the end. Images | US Air Force (Via Wikimedia Commons) Northrop Grumman (1, 2, 3) In Xataka | Ukraine was the anticipation of what Israel has done: war is no longer a thing of fighters or missiles, but something much cheaper

There is a great threat to the US if you send thousands of advanced chips from AI to the Middle East. That end in China

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These days we have seen how Donald Trump has reached a series of unique agreements with countries in the Middle East. In them the protagonists are the advanced chips of AI that the US will export to Saudi Arabia or United Arab Emirates. The problem is who will really use those chips. Data centers in the desert. These countries announced projects for the construction of large data centers, although It is not too clear that they can complete them or that their dimension is what they promise. Even so, the agreements are very significant and promise the sale of thousands of Nvidia or AMD chips that will end up arriving in the countries of the Middle East. Internal doubts. As they point out in Bloomberg, some members of the Donald Trump administration are trying to slow these agreements. In the opinion of these politicians, the United States has not imposed enough barriers to prevent these chips from ending where they should not. China. According to that newspaper, agreements include clauses that theoretically They prohibit China You can access these chips through countries in the Middle East. However, US government officials believe that there have been too many details without closing and that the agreements should not be announced without being totally defined in that and the rest of the senses. Middle Chinese relationships. The company that leads in AI in the United Arab Emirates is G42, and the problem is that this company has historical ties with Huawei. It is true that it ended theoretically cutting those ties To get close to US companies much morebut there are suspicions by some US government officials about whether there is still a relationship with China. And there are other risks. Trump’s policies were supposed to reserve the vast majority of these most advanced AI chips for this country, but this agreement raises a danger: that Middle East nations have access to toe technology would give them an important competitive advantage. But better to make the agreements than them. Sources close to the situation reveal that if the US does not reach these agreements, those countries – and others in the future – could reach those same agreements with China. The Asian giant has been advancing in the development of AI chips, and although it still cannot compete with those of the US, its proposals They are increasingly promising. A strategic issue. David Sacks, advisor to AI for the White House, is the one who defends that argument the most. That would allow to avoid or at least mitigate the phenomenon of “shrinking” of the US advantage over China in advanced chips. It is something that Jensen Huang has spokenCEO of Nvidia, who believes that with all the measures to prevent China from having access to those chips what has ended up causing is that this giant activates its machinery to get rid of the dependence he had of the US. The great winner. Meanwhile, the truth is that Nvidia will be one of the great beneficiaries of the agreement, because it has closed an agreement with Saudi Arabia valued at $ 7,000 million. The impact on Nvidia’s shares has been immediate: the company’s stock market capitalization grew by 12,000 million dollars in a single afternoon. Image | The White House In Xataka | The United States prevents Huawei from manufacturing more Windows PCs. Your answer: launch your first laptop with Linux

The key is called Giuk and gives China and Russia to the east of the US

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In January it sounded strongly and since then there is no week that the idea is not reproduced: United States Groenland wants. We explain that we are not really new, and that when Trump said wanting to take control of the enclave it was The fifth time in the history that the United States “touched” at the door of the island. However, there is now a difference with respect to other attempts. Greenland has something that makes it a strategic zone “for what can happen.” Russian and Chinese threat. Greenland has become A critical point For the national security of the United States, and although much has been commented, it is not mainly for economic or symbolic reasons, but for Its strategic position in the fight against the progress of Russian or eventually Chinese submarines. In fact, this has been confirmed through General Christopher G. Cavoli, Supreme Commander of NATO in Europe and head of the US European command. The man declared before the Senate Armed Services Committee that access to the airspace and maritime of Greenlandia It is fundamental To detect and follow the track of the Russian submarines before they are lost in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The island is part of the western edge of the Giuk gap (Greenland-Islandia-Reinian Reino), a vital corridor through which the Russian underwater fleet from Murmansk, home of the most advanced naves of the Kremlin, such as class submersibles, such as class submersibles, such as class submersible Yasen-mequipped with long -range cruise missiles. The giuk gap. This corridor is a strangulation point Maritime that, if not properly watched, allows Russian or Chinese submarines operate without being detected In the North Atlantic. Once they cross the gap, its location becomes extremely difficult, both because of the acoustic conditions of the underwater terrain and by the oceanic vastness. Thus, from these hidden positions they can launch missile attacks against strategic objectives On the east coast of the American continent. In fact and in response to this, the United States formed in 2021 the so -called Task Group Greyhounda specialized group of anti -submarine destroyers Designed to counteract This specific threat. The American navy itself warned at the time that the east coast of the country already It was not a safe shelterunderlining the urgency of establishing surveillance and defense points in key areas such as Greenland. Map of the Giuk Via of the Cold War (still relevant) The Russian answer. For their part, they counted the The War Zone analysts that Russia has proven to know very well the value of this corridor. In 2019, he organized his greatest naval exercise since the Cold War, sending at least ten submarines through the completely submerged Giuk gap, with the aim of reaching the Atlantic without being intercepted. According to Norwegian mediathe intention was clear: to prove the capacity of the West to detect movements of his fleet and demonstrate that he could project power to the US coast. These exercises also fulfill a fund growing territorial presence. Advanced control point. The island of Goenland, with only 320 km of separation from Iceland, constitutes a natural bottleneck inside the Giuk. This proximity allows its use as an advanced basis for anti -submarine operations. Although the United States already has the base of the space force In Pituffik (Antigua Thule), equipped with early alert radars against ballistic attacks, General Cavoli suggests that it would be strategically advantageous to expand military capabilities in other areas of the island. Under this prism, the simple possibility that Russia or China can establish military facilities in Greenland represents an unacceptable risk: from there, they could deploy weapons of intercontinental reach only 2,000 km from the US territory. A Yasen-M class Diplomatic tension With this context we arrive at the news of these days. General Cavoli’s statements occur in a political high voltage environment between the United States and Denmark, Sovereign Nation on Greenland. The renewed Donald Trump’s insistence In acquiring the island, it has revived a diplomatic conflict dating from its first mandate. Plus: the Recent visit of vice president JD Vance to Island caused a strong rejection by local and Danish authorities, who met to stage your unit Faced with US desires for annexation. At the same time, Secretary of State Marco Rubio moved to Denmark to calm the situation and reaffirm the strength of the bilateral relationship, although tensions remain latent. One More Thing. While the persecution of Russian submarines is the central axis of the strategy, there is much more. To begin with, Greenland also offers other military advantages: its radar infrastructure It allows early detection of ballistic releases, which gives the US government additional time to respond to an attack. In addition, its position at the northwest of the Atlantic makes it a crucial logistics point within the framework of any Arctic or Intercontinental conflict. Although Iceland already houses American anti -submarine aircraft squads that cover the Giuk gap, Greenland could offer redundancy, extended reach and greater operational flexibility. Geopolitics in the ice. So things, and while the debate persists on whether the United States really needs Acquire Greenland Or simply reinforce its presence in the area, the truth is that the island has ceased to be a remote block of ice to become a strategic focus of the first order. The growing Arctic militarizationthe resurgence of Russian naval power and The global competition For the control of polar routes they place Greenland in the center of a new geopolitical board. Its value does not reside in its demography, economy or tourist attraction, but in its ability to influence the balance of power between rival powers. In times of submarine cold war, every kilometer of coast vigilated is worth its weight in gold, and Greenland, today more than ever, he tells much. Image | PicrylRussian Navy, миноборонloy In Xataka | It is the fifth time that the US wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. If they asked on the island they would have it … Read more

We have been fearing the arrival of the ‘Beast of the East’ a week and in the end an Atlantic front has sneaked into the squad

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In recent days, the big topic of weather conversation has been the ‘East beast‘. Many things have been said: from Nieves generalized throughout the country to a simple decrease in temperatures. What we did not expect was the “extraordinary turn” that the situation has taken. What do we talk about when we talk about the ‘Beast of the East’? As we explained yesterdaybeyond the controversy by name, the phenomenon is very simple: a mass of polar air that takes advantage of an Atlantic blocking situation to move from the northeast of the European continent to the southwest. That is, towards us. From ‘beast’ a ‘bestiecilla’. Unlike the ‘Beast’ of 2018the mass that was approaching had no capacity to form a cold and snow storm worthy of that name. However, since these situations are rare and difficult to model, there were many doubts and uncertainties. Beyond that We were going to notice the closeness of that mass of cold airnobody was very clear about what was going to happen. The unknown is clearing. On the one hand, the mass of air has started doing something that was as far as possible: cycloogenesis. These types of masses are very dry, but on their way to the southwest they can generate cold danas or storms. On the other, an Atlantic Front It has sneaked by the northwest and is on the way to the Southeast leaving generalized rains throughout the Peninsula (less on the Mediterranean coast and the Balearic Islands). And what will happen? The interaction of the two phenomena will leave a lot of snow in the Pyrenees (already very low levels). The front will leave some water in most of the country. However, the great turn is that the instability that the front is creating will help moderate the cold peaks. That does not change the general image (it will be colder than usual), but it does make The worst forecasts are diluted Between the rain. In fact, as the front passes the temperatures will tend to rise. Be that as it may, care in the north third: snow, fog and ice will roast a few days between us. Image | ECMWF In Xataka | The Arctic is living a very anomalous situation: temperatures above zero in the middle of winter and a 30º thermal anomaly

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