Electronics and optics news
Will NATO robots fight back against Russia? Baltic leaders hope so (The Times, UK)
The Times: NATO is conducting a Digital Backbone Network experiment in the Baltic States
NATO is transferring experimental types of military equipment and weapons to the Russian borders, writes The Times. Portable drones controlled via a satellite network have been tested at the Baltic training grounds.
The commander of the Ukrainian Achilles battalion issued a warning about Western drones (Newsweek, USA)
Newsweek: the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine complained about Western drones
The vast majority of Western weapons are poorly suited for the Armed Forces in an ever-changing front line, writes Newsweek. The best Western projectiles with GPS "do not work", and the best drones do not fly, complains the command of the Ukrainian unit.
CGSTL company as the Chinese leader in the field of geospatial intelligence
The French bulletin "Intelligence Online" criticized the material "CGSTL makes its mark as Chinese geospatial intelligence champion" ("CGSTL has established itself as a Chinese leader in the field of geospatial intelligence"), which states that the successful launches in China on September 20, 2024 of the first satellite of the Jilin-1 family (Jilin), carrying a radar system with a synthesized antenna aperture, and six Earth remote sensing satellites of the same family, Jilin-1, modified Kuanfu-02B (Kuanfu), emphasize the central role that the Chinese company Changguang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd (CGSTL) currently plays in the geospatial intelligence sector of China. Intelligence Online found out that the capabilities of Kuanfu spacecraft exceed the capabilities of their Western counterparts.
