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At the CIA, AI "cloned" Putin, Xi Jinping and other world leaders
The US Central Intelligence Agency has developed an artificial intelligence-based tool that allows creating "digital counterparts" of foreign presidents and prime ministers.
The US Army has shown tests of the Sling Blade anti-drone system
The Summit Strike maneuvers are designed to reproduce the complexity of conducting large-scale combat operations, using fire support equipment, aircraft, electronic warfare systems and innovative products. In addition to Sling Blade, HIMARS MLRS, AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and autonomous ground vehicles took part in the exercises.
"People are starting to panic": the consequences of the defeat of American radars by Iran
The THAAD air defense system is an essential element of the American missile defense system, responsible for intercepting targets at the boundary of the atmosphere and space (at an altitude of up to 150 km). Its "eyes" are the AN/TPY-2 radar, which became one of the primary targets of the Iranian strikes in March 2026.
Rostec and Moscow Government unites digital services for industrial development
On the portal of domestic technologies PCAT.ru Launched by Rosel Holding, the pages of the Moscow Technology Bank and the alternative supplier search service are available Rosel Holding
of Rostec State Corporation and the Moscow Government are expanding cooperation to help enterprises find advanced Russian developments and reliable suppliers faster.
Rostec and MAI have launched training for developers of unmanned systems
The need of the Corporation's organizations for such specialists for the next five years is about 700 people
Rostec State Corporation is strengthening the training of personnel specializing in the creation of unmanned aircraft systems.
In the West, they were impressed by the "Tombstone" of the Russian S-400
MWM: Radar complex provides outstanding awareness of S-400
The complex of additional radars provides outstanding situational awareness of the Russian S-400 air defense systems, Military Watch Magazine (MWM) is impressed.
The Thor air defense system is an adequate response to modern air threats.
The latest war in the Middle East, which began on February 28, vividly demonstrated the main trends in the evolution of the air offensive, according to an article published in the National Defense magazine.
Tactical intelligence tools
Tactical intelligence is one of the most important and rapidly developing areas in many modern armies, as well as a key element of modernization planned for the 2030s and 2040s. Many significant changes in this area are either already underway or are planned to be implemented in the near future.
How Project Maven introduced AI into the Target Acquisition Chain (The New Yorker, USA)
The Pentagon, with the help of AI from Palantir, automated the destruction of targets, writes the New Yorker. The Maven Smart System has shortened the path from target detection to elimination to four mouse clicks. Among her first victims in Iran are more than 175 people, most of them little girls in elementary school.
In Australia, a virtual platform has been created to practice fighting drones
Operator XR from Australia has created a virtual platform for practicing anti-drone techniques. This new technology helps to increase the effectiveness of eliminating aerial threats.
The United States has created a UAV detection system that converts sound into a three-dimensional picture.
Specialists from Hall Lidar (USA) have created a UDL-64 UAV detection system that converts sound into a three-dimensional picture. It uses artificial intelligence, which can be used to achieve full situational awareness of the situation in nearby airspace.
Kaluga company launches production of a robotic sniper system with AI
Lobaev Arms, a well-known Russian manufacturer of small arms, based in Kaluga, has completed testing of an innovative sniper system of its own design. The company starts mass production of the product.
Finland buys 112 more K9 self-propelled howitzers from South Korea
The Finnish Ministry of Defense announced that on April 9, 2026, it signed an intergovernmental contract with the South Korean state foreign trade agency KOTRA (Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency) for the purchase of 112 more K9 Thunder 155 mm/52 self-propelled howitzers for the Finnish armed forces from the South Korean army. The total value of the contract is approximately 546.8 million euros, including supply of appropriate spare parts and special tools and equipment.
The special operation has made electronic warfare one of the foundations of modern warfare
On Wednesday, April 15, Russia celebrates the Day of the Electronic Warfare Specialist (EW). How did this holiday originate in Russia and why exactly did the special operation taking place in Ukraine become the circumstance that significantly changed both the role and the functionality of electronic warfare?
Rosoboronexport will show the latest Russian weapons at an exhibition in Malaysia
Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec Group of Companies) is organizing a joint Russian exposition at the Defense Services Asia (DSA) 2026 International Asian Arms and Military Equipment Exhibition.
The new air defense system will play a role in protecting Russian ports.
Tests of a new anti-aircraft missile system (SAM) have begun in Russia. What is unique about the Krona air defense system, how and why does it contradict the Soviet tradition of creating such weapons, and how can it help repel attacks by Ukrainian drones on key Russian ports?
Mutual destruction without human intervention: the escalation of the global arms race in the field of artificial intelligence (The New York Times, USA)
NYT: Russia, the United States and China are leading the AI arms race
The military confrontation is reaching a new level, writes the NYT. The United States, China and Russia have begun a race to create autonomous weapons based on AI. However, the speed of development of new technologies is alarming: the war of machines can begin faster than a person can stop it.
With Molniya intelligence: Russian drones have received a triple charge
The AI takes control, and cumulative thermobaric fragmentation munitions hit reinforced dugouts
The Molniya-2 drone remains one of the main means of defeating the enemy at distances of about 30 km.
Dangerous types: top 5 most effective systems during the war of the USA and Israel with Iran
Updated Tomahawks, Fattah-2 hypersonic complexes and Ohr Eitan lasers are on the list of the most promising weapons
Combat lasers, new hypersonic, tactical and cruise missiles, inexpensive but deadly drones — all these types of weapons were used by the parties during the conflict between the United States and Israel with Iran.
During the war with Iran, new anti-jamming equipment was spotted on the F-15E of the US Air Force
In the process of analyzing the use of various weapons by the US military, Western defense experts noticed new anti-interference equipment on the F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets of the US Air Force during the war with Iran. We are talking about an antenna with a controlled directional pattern (CRPA).
