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China already has its “invisible hunt” ready for action, and twice

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There is no official announcement. But China leaves clues again. This time they arrive from a Photography published in Weibo and replicated in x: two J-35 They fly in closed formation. What differentiates them from the prototypes seen so far are their construction numbers, “0011” and “0012”, clearly visible in the fuselage. It is a solid indication that the program has entered a limited series production phase, the typical LRIP prior to the operational deployment. LRIP registrations, emblems and a shark in the tail. The image seems to come from an official channel of the Chinese Navy. To the numbers are added other details that reinforce the hypothesis: national emblems in the vertical fins, a tactical gray free and a reason for a shark in drift. The specialist Andreas Ruprecht, Consulted by specialized means like War Zonehas repeatedly indicated these visual winks in Chinese naval aircraft. Click to see the publication in x The pilots also give clues: they carry bright blue helmets, exactly the type of helmet used by J-15 aviators in first-line units. All this suggests that these J-35 are already assigned to the Navy and in the validation phase prior to their entry into service. From FC-31 to J-35: the navalized variant that China needed. The J-35 derives from the FC-31, Shenyang’s furtive project for a more compact hunt than the J-20. The first navalized prototype flew in 2021; The second was seen in 2022 with a gray gray scheme of low visibility and, in 2023, blurred images of what could have been a third device emerged. Now, with the 0011 and 0012 specimens, we talk about units that already fit an initial serial configuration. The design is designed to operate from carckeners with catapults, such as Type 003 Fujianeven in tests. It is the logical step in an army that has been training in land facilities that simulates Catobar covers for years. Motors: WS-19 against WS-21, a puzzle still unsolved. The motor plant is still unknown. Some suggest that the land version, J-35a, already mounts the final WS-19, identifiable by darker nozzles. On the other hand, the naval specimens, with clear nozzles, could be driven by the WS-21, an evolution of the WS-13 used in the initial prototypes. There is no official confirmation and it is likely that Shenyang continues to adjust the engines in parallel to the progress of the program. Both airplanes carry a screwed Luneburg lens under their belly, a radar reflector that is installed when no total observability is required or when you want to mask the real firm of the device before third parties. Tests on aircraft carrier? For now there are no photos that demonstrate it. With airplanes apparently already in the hands of the Navy, the embarked essays are the next logical step if they have not already begun. There is also talk of a possible public presentation in September, during the acts by the 80th anniversary of the Japanese defeat in World War II. We will have to see if Beijing takes that occasion to exhibit it. One more piece in the puzzle of Chinese embarked air power. The J-35 adds to the KJ-600 early alert embarked the poaches that China has in development. Everything indicates that the country wants a more complex shipped air wing and comparable to that of the United States. It must know how long it will take to achieve real operational capabilities with this new generation of platforms. Images | Thomas Aseyroux | 沙丘里的回声 (Weibo) In Xataka | There is a city that maintains much of Russia’s economy in times of war. And it is on the Chinese border

A British F-35 has been stranded in India. Almost as surreal as the day a hunt landed in a Spanish container

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The truth is that the United Kingdom expected The F-35b out A practically invincible huntbut today it flies little, and the times that does certainly surrealist situations like the one that is happening right now In India. Be that as it may, not even the current scene approaches what happened in 1983, when the indescribable episode known as the incident in the Alraigo occurred. The hunt does not start. British f-35b furtive furtive hunt, one of the most advanced and expensive on the planet, remains stranded more than a month In India since he made an emergency landing on June 14 at the Thiruvananthapuram International Airport (Kerala) due to a technical failure related to the hydraulic system and the auxiliary power unit. A team of British engineers and military He arrived in the country on July 6 To take exclusively responsible for the repairs that are carried out under strict security measures in a deprived hangar of Air India, completely sealed and with restricted access to local forces. Although the aircraft was transferred from its initial location after three weeks immobilized, there is no news about when it will be operational again. The Government of India has taken the opportunity to take advantage of the hunting situation Everything goes wrong. But as we said at the beginning, the story, although difficult to believe, is little compared to What happened several decades ago. In June 1983, during NATO maneuvers off the coast of Portugal, the young British lieutenant Ian “Soapy” Watson took off from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious aboard a Hunt is Harrier For a simulated search mission under combat conditions. Together with another pilot they had to locate a French aircraft carrier keeping the radio silence and the radars off until they reached the assigned area. After activating them, they both separated and, at the end of the search, Watson tried to meet with his partner, but failed to contact. When running out of precise navigation references and with the inoperative radio, It was disoriented In full ocean. Without any contact, without a signal in the radar and with the fuel running out, the pilot knew that he had to make a drastic decision. The impossible maneuver. Looking for maritime traffic signs, its radar finally detected a goal: the Spanish merchant ship Alraigowhich was heading to Tenerife. Unable to communicate with the crew, Watson decided to make a past to get his attention. When observing that the containers on the roof formed a flat platform similar to a training track, he opted for Try the unthinkable: land your vertical hunting on load containers. Although He managed to perchthe aircraft began to slide back until its landing train partially fell from the edge, even impacting Against a van destined for a florist on the island of Tenerife. However, the hunt did not fall and was embedded on the containers. The scene (and images) were forever in the history of aviation. Arrival. The Captain of the Alraigo, impassive, notified the British authorities that they would deliver the pilot and his plane In Tenerife in four dayswithout altering your route. Upon arrival in Puerto, a multitude of journalists waited for the surreal scene with the Sea Harrier mounted on a merchant ship. This was the hunt after the “impossible” maneuver Diplomatic consequences. Upon arriving at Puerto, both Naviera García Miñaur and the Red Crew considered that they had starred in an authentic Maritime rescueas contemplated by Spanish legislation. The value of the Harrier, then encrypted at 1,500 million pesetas, was not a small thing. To ensure the collection of a fair award, lawyer Fernando Meana He requested without success The preventive embargo of the plane. Given the judicial refusal, it was decided to go to An arbitration in Londonwith the certainty that British legislation (unlike the Spanish) would grant the entire reward to the shipowner, leaving out the crew. Legal justice. It was then when He entered the scene The lawyer José María Ruiz Soroa, who defended the sailors commissioned by the Merchant Marine Free Union. Thanks to a thorough investigation, Ruiz Soroa located in his father’s archives a forgotten British law, The Maritime Conventions Act of 1911, which established that the distribution of the prize should be made according to the legislation of the country of the Salvador ship. That norm changed everything. After harsh negotiations, he managed to be signed A new contract with the British embassy in Madrid that guaranteed the application of Spanish law. Thus, the crew and owners of the ship received compensation close to The 570,000 pounds (about 1.14 million dollars of the time). The case became a mixture of diplomatic anecdote, media circus and legal rarity. Responsibilities Initially, Watson underwent A research board aboard the Illustriumus, which did not take disciplinary measures. But once the aircraft carrier returned to Puerto, a second board attributed partial responsibility, claiming that it had only completed 75% of its training and that the hunting had technical failures, especially in the radio system. The pilot was reprimanded and relegated to administrative functions. However, Watson continued his career, accumulating more than 2,000 flight hours in Sea Harriers and 900 more in F/A-18 before leaving the Navy in 1996. Despite the controversy, always He assumed responsibility Without excuses: “It was my fault. I was there. And there should end everything.” Thus, what began as a routine operation ended up becoming one of the most unique and bizarre episodes of British naval aviation. Image | Navy, Reddit In Xataka | The United Kingdom was waiting for an invincible hunt. Today, the F-35 flies little and cannot shoot its own weapons In Xataka | The hunt that still resists in Iran more than 40 years after his arrival. It is not Russian or Iranian. It is the American F-14

The United Kingdom was waiting for an invincible hunt. Today, the F-35 flies little and cannot shoot its own weapons

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He F-35b Lightning It is one of the most advanced fighters in the world. It has low observability when radar can take off in short distances and land vertically, and is designed to operate from Terrestrial Bases and Bases. You can execute Aire-Aire, air-surface, electronic warfare and intelligence in parallel missions. On paper, the United Kingdom was going to turn it into the cornerstone of its aerial power, With 138 planned units and a service horizon until 2069. But reality goes behind that ambition. A new report by the National Audit Office (NAO) He has just documented in detail a series of problems that drag the program: from sustained delays to capabilities yet to be integrated. The result is a much less solid photograph than expected a decade ago. And that opens uncomfortable questions about costs, efficacy and planning. F-35b, promises and delays As we said, the F-35B Lightning is the short take-off version and vertical landing of hunting by the United States The Joint Strike Fighter program. United Kingdom chose this variant To replace your Harrier and operate from the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers. You can fly to more than Mach 1.6, reach 50,000 feet of altitude and execute multiple types of mission. A Harrier plane landing Its strong point is in the fusion of sensors and in the ability to share data in real time with other platforms. Unlike previous generations, the F-35B not only acts as an attack vector, but as a network intelligence node. In 2012 the first units arrived in the country, with Raf Marham as the main base. United Kingdom has invested at least 11,000 million pounds (about 12.6 billion euros) until March 2025, According to the National Audit Office. And yet, the level of operational capacity reached is lower than the ministry expected in 2013. The postponement of the total operational capacity (FOC) of 2023 at the end of 2025 implies that the F -35b have not yet reached the degree of maturity necessary to operate with full capacity. According to the NAO, the flight hours accumulated in 2024 were lower than those required, which limits the preparation of crews and the real availability of the fleet for intensive missions. In addition, the plane is currently limited in armament. Today only the guided pump Paveway IV and the Air-Aire Amraam AIM-13D, According to the RAF technical file. NAO confirms that the integration of British Meteor and Spear 3 missiles It has been postponed until the early 2030. In practice, this means that the F -35B cannot yet execute attacks from long distance with state -of -the -art weapons, such as its original strategic purpose. An F-35 landing There are also structural limitations. As The Register has pointed outthe short take -off design and vertical landing (Stovl) imposes significant restrictions on the payload and at the operational reach of the plane, something that conditions its effectiveness in demanding combat scenarios. This assessment is not part of the official NAO report, but it does reflect a usual concern among several specialists. To all this, the cost of full life cycle could reach 71,000 million pounds (about 81.9 billion euros). The problems are not alone Although the F-35B is already in operational use, the figures reveal a compromised capacity. In 2024, only around one third of the fleet was available to execute all the expected missions. Part of the problem is structural: the United Kingdom has failed to cover all the necessary positions to operate and maintain the system. Engineers are scarceand prolonged displays in aircraft carrier make many fate F-35 as unattractive. A F-35B of the United Kingdom The supply of pieces is not guaranteed either. The global logistics system, managed from the United States, has not grown at the same pace as the international fleet. That has generated bottlenecks, delays in deliveries and an excessive dependence on temporary solutions. Although during the deployment of Carrier Strike Group of 2025 the availability rates were improved, everything indicates that these levels may not be maintained once the operation is finished. Despite delays, costs and availability problems, the United Kingdom retains an outstanding role within the International F-35 program. He was the only level 1 partner to join the United States -led program and maintains 38 members of the Ministry of Defense Integrated in the central team of the project in Washington, more than any other country. This implication has given tangible results: British companies manufacture at least 15 % of the value of each unit produced. An eye on the future While the F-35 still faces limitations, the United Kingdom already promotes its own next generation project: The Tempest huntintegrated since December 2022 in the multinational program Global Combat Air Program (GCAP)together with Italy and Japan. Conceptual image of the future hunting of the Tempest program This effort, led by BAE Systems (United Kingdom), Leonardo (Italy) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Japan), aims to develop a Sixth generation furtive plane for 2035with prototypes flying before 2028. The headquarters of the program is based in the United Kingdom. Since its origin, it has been raised as an open architecture platform, with engines, plane, sensors and weapons developed under national control, seeking greater technological autonomy with respect to the US. Despite optimism, there are still tensions. Italy has expressed concern about the lack of transparency in the technological transfer from the United Kingdom. Images | Raf (1, 2), | Adrian Pingstone | BAE Systems In Xataka | There are those who ask why airplanes have no parachute. This manufacturer decided to stop asking him and putting one

The hunt that still resists in Iran more than 40 years after his arrival. It is not Russian or Iranian. It is the American F-14

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While the missiles cross the air between Israel and Iran, the Israeli Air Force has confirmed A new attack on facilities close to Tehran. According to its version, among the objectives there were at least a couple of fighters F-14 Tomcat. In one of the available videos, the impact on what would be one of the few units that are still in service, almost half a century after having been manufactured. That an American hunt retired in 2006 Keep flying today in one of Washington’s great adversaries is no accident. The explanation is in the convoluted – sometimes contradictory – that history can be. An order, a revolution and a war The History of F-14 in Iran begins in the 70s. The SHA, still strategic ally of the United States, decided to incorporate Dozens of Tomcat fighters to its Air Force, in a military package valued at approximately 2,000 million dollars. To do this, he sent his pilots to train in California. But everything changed in 1979, with the Islamic revolution. The relationship between Iran and the United States deteriorated quickly. Ayatolá Ruhollah Jomeiní ordered the arrest of many of those pilots and left the F-14 on land. But the situation took a new turn in 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran. The authorities decided to free the aviators, and began a career to counterreloj for reactivating a fleet for which there were no longer spare parts. An Iranian pilot next to an F-14 Now, keeping an F-14 in flight is not an easy task. Every flight hour required many more maintenanceand many of its components were impossible to manufacture locally. No access to Western technology, Iran resorted to smugglers, to the black market … And also, in a maneuver as surprising as documented, to the United States. During the 80s, within the framework of the scandal Iran-contextsthe Ronald Reagan administration He secretly authorized The sale of weapons to Tehran in exchange for the release of hostages. Iranian Tomcats equipped with multiple missiles in full flight Today, almost half a century after that SHA request, the F-14 Tomcat It continues to appear In Iran. There are no official figures on how many are or how many are really operational. Some have seen in parades. Others, in blurred videos. And now, according to Israel, at least two would have been destroyed in a recent attack near Tehran. Israeli Air Force announced the impact on Iranian F-14 with this publication That an F-14 is still present in 2025 is not just a technical rarity. It is a string of how convoluted the story can be. A hunt designed for US carriers, designed to face the Soviet Union and retired almost twenty years ago, still appears – in one way or another – in one of the most serious military tensions of the moment. Tomcat was a technological feat. But he is also an unlikely survivor: he went from ally to enemy, he sustained thanks to improvised engineers, to clandestine networks, and the carelessness of those who tried to leave him on the ground forever. Images | Nasim News Agency | Iriaf | Shahram Sharifi | IIAF 2 US Navy (via Wikimedia Commons) In Xataka | If the question is how much the iron dome of Israel can endure, the answer is simple: much more than Iran’s defenses

We have been creating whale bones to tools for a long time. Before even learning to hunt them

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For centuries, whale hunting was a weight sector in the coastal areas of the Gulf of Bizkaia. Everything took advantage of this animal, or almost everything: the meat served as food and fat served as oil to enliven the flames of the lamps before electricity and oil. His bones have also been A valuable resource Throughout history. Now we know that also during prehistory. Prehistoric tools. A group of researchers, including scientists from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, He has discovered Tools made of whale bone. The analysis of De Ha throws an estimated age of between 19,000 and 20,000 years. The 83 tools were found In various deposits Distributed by the coast of the Gulf of Bizkaia, including the Cantabrian coast and points in southern France. To these tools you have to add another 90 unrelated bones found in the Cave of Santa Catalina, Located in the Biscay town of Lekeitio. The bone remains would have belonged to specimens of at least five different species, including species such as the sperm whale, the common whale and the blue whale that can still be found in the waters of the Gulf and the gray whale, already disappeared from that environment with a more restricted habitat to areas of the northern Pacific and the Arctic Oceans, explains the team Investigating what and when. For the identification of the species and dating the tools, the equipment resorted to the mass spectrometry techniques and radiocarbon dating. Thus they managed to find the origin of the tools in the five species mentioned above. It was also like the team determined that it was, In words of the Jean-Marc Pétillon group “some of the oldest known evidences of human use of whale remains as tools.” “Zooms is a very powerful technique to investigate the past diversity of marine mammals, especially when there are missing diagnostic morphometric elements in bone remains and objects, something common in artifacts made of bones,” explained in a press release Krista McGrath, co -author of the study. Chemical analysis. The study also involved a chemical analysis of the sample. Thanks to this, the team was able to find out data on the eating habits of the whales, which “differed slightly from those of their modern counterparts.” This implies possible changes in the behavior of cetaceans, or in the marine ecosystem itself. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Nature Communications. 20,000 years hunting whales? The conclusion that the human being has 20 millennia hunting whales is tempting, but the team responsible for the study considers it “extremely unlikely.” The most likely hypothesis is that the Pleistocene hunters would have taken advantage of the arrival of stranded whales to the coast to obtain their bones and manufacture from them “It is extremely unlikely that these species would have been accessible to the hunters collecting European pelistocene in another way that were not through passive acquisition methods, such as the opportunistic acquisition of stranded whales or the arrival on the coast of corpses,” says the article. “There is no evidence (…) that the collection hunters of the European Pleistocene had the necessary technologies to hunt these species, such as navigation (…).” Change of sea level. Study coastal life in glacial ages since the present coastline is relatively Far from the coastline typical of the last glaciation, although the extension of the lands flooded after the end of the last glacial era differs between area and area. Within the Gulf of Bizkaia, for example, we can appreciate a greater area flooded on the French coast and therefore a greater decline of the coastal line in contrast to the Cantabrian coast. In any case, the coastal recession implies the loss of valuable coastal deposits now flooded by the Atlantic waters. Deposits that could hide countless data that could help us to know better these life modes of the millennium coastal peoples behind in time. In Xataka | The history of the last whale hunted in Spain, on October 21, 1985 Image | ICTA-UAB/Alexandre Lefebvre

Google is even the noses of the fraud by SMS and calls. Android’s new functions are going to hunt

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Important day for Android and consumer technology. Google has made official some of the changes that will arrive with Android 16. Among them, Material 3 Expressivethe new design language that will land this 2025. In addition to changes in the interface, Google wanted to focus on security and privacy. To do this, it opens a good number of functions that will land in the coming months. Protection against fraudulent SMS. It is more than probable that, in recent months, you have arrived some SMS that promised to be from a telephone company, parcel company or the like. The detection of Scams in Google messages will improve with Android 16and Android will notify in real time of possible fraud. Within the messages itself, the system will notify us when a message is suspicious of fraud: identity supplant, scams related to cryptocurrencies, fraudulent billing … This analysis will be carried out in a 100% local way within the device, so that nothing that comes to us will be processed in the cloud. Also in calls. Google has been doing something very well for years: Filter suspicious spam calls. However, sometimes this is not enough to protect the user. With Android 16, there are certain actions that cannot be made during calls. The objective is to prevent scammers from asking the user to make behaviors that play against them (change security settings, modify some aspects of the system, etc.) during a call. In other words, Android will not only have protection against spam. He will also have it against the SCAM: the various scams that are so on digital roads. Key Verifier. Another of the new tools that lands in the new version of Android is Key Verifier. This is focused on combating fraud due to impersonation of identity, and will allow us to verify the identity of the people with whom we communicate through public encryption keys. Through a QR code it will be possible to verify that the contact is verified in the Google messages app, since its keys must coincide with those assigned. It is a great solution to the popular problem of Sim Swapping, in which they replace our identity by passing through our telephone number. This measure is not linked to Android 16. It will arrive from summer to all devices that have Android 10 or higher. Anti -theft protection. Google premiered interesting Anti -theft functions not too muchand now he wants to take a twist. Safety measures will be reinforced in sections such as the factory reset of a device. It will no longer suffice to know the mobile key, it will also be possible to add an additional layer through a security question. In the same way, this will apply to the remote device block, to minimize the possibility that an attacker can make changes to our mobile if he has had access to any of his keys. Find Hub. Do you remember Find My Device? Well, you can forget him. This Google service evolves to Find Hub, the natural evolution of the app to track our devices. With Find Hub we will have more unified locations not only of objects, but of the contacts that we add to our network, as well as the objects that carry tracking devices such as Tile, Moto Tag and others. Security protection. To finish strengthening system safety, the device protection function arrives. This is a function in which the apps will be informed that it is active, to avoid the temptation to access our information. What exactly do you? While active, anti -theft functions, memory optimizations and applications against possible bugs and errors that can be exploited, network connection protection to avoid insecure websites, and the aforementioned messaging and SCAM options will always be operational. With these fu Image | Google In Xataka | Android anti -theft protection: What is it, what functions it has and how to activate it on your mobile

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