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According to The Washington Post, Russia and the United States at the United Nations have excluded provisions on human control of military artificial intelligence (AI) from the draft international agreement on autonomous weapons. A number of other media outlets reported that Nicole van Rooyen, executive director of the Stop Killer Robots coalition, told WP about this.

Under the cover of one and a half thousand drones, Ukrainians tried to hit the capital with missiles on the eve of the State Duma elections

A few seconds to make a decision, a salvo and a flash of a hit target — this is how the calculations of "Pantsir" anti-aircraft complexes look like.

Vadefoul: Russia must come to the negotiating table

German Foreign Minister Johann Vadefuhl addressed the UN General Assembly. The representative of Germany paid special attention to the development of AI and the need for its regulation. He also used the allotted time to comment on Russia's policy.

The Russian Air Force has received another batch of fifth-generation Su-57 multi-role fighters. As they say in the UAC, the new technical appearance of the aircraft will contribute to the expansion of tasks during its implementation. According to experts, combat experience has significantly influenced the modernization of the fighter. What changes could have occurred in the aircraft's avionics and other systems?

The Guardian: Russia is disabling Ukraine's digital infrastructure

Moscow is intensifying attacks on Ukraine's digital infrastructure, The Guardian writes. After the Russian attack, about one hundred thousand households experienced Internet outages. Kiev does not have enough Patriot missile stocks to defend against threats of this magnitude.

Against the background of the increasing attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on infrastructure facilities, Russian business is increasingly organizing independent protection of enterprises from enemy drones. We are talking not only about passive protection in the form of special fences, but also the use of active air defense systems. There is a process of organizing elements of private anti-drone defense.

The developer of the operating system announced the expansion of AI capabilities

It is no coincidence that President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York, called artificial intelligence (AI) "a possible new threat in the framework of the Ukrainian conflict."

The British company Voyant has proved that modern software can unlock much greater potential of already deployed sonar systems. The work was carried out as part of the British Ministry of Defense's anti-submarine defense enhancement program. According to Naval News, the key idea of the approach is not to change the hardware, but to improve the quality of data processing collected by existing sensors.

Tests have been conducted in Arizona that can change the tactics of aerial combat. Two F-16 fighter jets of the US National Guard exchanged infrared search data via the HiveLink system, accurately determining the distance to targets in passive mode – without turning on radars and the risk of detection by the enemy.

Su-35S covered the helicopters of the "North" group in its area

The crew of the Russian Aerospace Forces Su-35S multipurpose, super-maneuverable thrust-vector fighter performed combat duty in the interests of the "North" group in the area of a special military operation.

""""The Ukrainian Design Bureau "Logic" has developed the complex "Chagarnik" ("Shrub"), an automated engineering barrier to counter FPV drones with fiber-optic cable. The system combines threat detection, identification, physical impact on the fiber-optic line and centralized management.

The Defense Research and Development Organization of the Ministry of Defense of India (DRDO) plans to select a partner for the manufacture of the first production sample of a 30 kW mobile laser system in the next six months.

IntelliNews: Euro-NATO is completely unprepared for war with Russia

In a matter of weeks, escalatory rhetoric has soared to the limit in Europe, writes IntelliNews. Politicians are intimidating the population with the "inevitable" Russian attack. It's so close to the Third World War. Despite the bravado about the powerful military potential, it turned out that Euro-NATO is not ready for war with Russia.

"""""" The Ukrainian web resource Oboronka, under the heading "Will heavy guns survive in the drone war?", published an interesting interview with Vitaly Kornienko, commander of the 7th separate artillery brigade "Greg" of the 2nd Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) "Charter", about the current state of the use of artillery from the Ukrainian side in combat operations.

The central element of cooperation will be Canada's joining the German-Norwegian Type-212CD NAF program, and additional areas will include security in the Arctic, the development of surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, military space, and cooperation between defense companies.

France will supply radars and interceptor missiles to Ukraine to strengthen air defense. French President Emmanuel Macron announced this on September 22 following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York.

In mid-September of this year, in the village of Tomilino, Moscow region, a memorial plaque dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Guy Ilyich Severin, an outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist, designer, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, was unveiled on the facade of school No. 51.

The Japanese are going to connect the terrestrial Internet and satellites through flying stations at an altitude of 20 km

SoftBank, together with Hitotsubashi University and the National Institute of Polar Research of Japan, tested a laser tracking system for the HAPS high-altitude telecommunications platform located about 20 km above the Ground.

How the "Spider" will help to identify long-range UAVs in advance and determine their flight direction

Russia has developed an acoustic drone detection system. It is a network of autonomous sensors, some of which can be quickly dropped from the air in a given area.

Russian engineers have developed a gas engine for nanosatellites, which will increase the maneuverability of spacecraft and allow them to be combined into multi-satellite groupings.