Associate Professor Carlo Pinciroli from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) on drones and swarm robotics:

— Drones are enabling new tactics and capabilities. Inexpensive drones can be used as cheap "vessels" to deploy bombs deep behind enemy lines.

— (On armed robot dogs) Once you have lots of robots, you arm them, and then you make an army.

— Integrating autonomous drones and robots with human soldiers is a major challenge, as the robots need to behave in predictable ways that soldiers can trust.

— Giving weapons to AI systems raises concerns about when and how they will decide to engage targets, as AI decision-making may exceed human speeds.

— Adversaries could also try to deceive or spoof autonomous weapons systems, making them ineffective.

— Swarms of drones could provide enhanced situational awareness and logistics support for military operations. Autonomous drones and robots may allow for fewer human soldiers on the battlefield, acting as "force multipliers".

Source: gdh

New Hamas clash footage from Gaza.

Washington warned Iran that its new government and the Iranian economy could “suffer a devastating blow if it launched a major attack on Israel,” WSJ reports.

Trump:

If anybody I know is Jewish, and they would vote for Kamala over me, they should have their head examined.

Russia is now sending military reinforcements to Kursk region.

Ukraine incursion into Russia's Kursk
region "is consistent with our policy" Pentagon says.

“Ukrainian forces are taking actions to protect themselves from attacks that are coming from a region that are within the US policy of where they can operate.”

Russian woman (probably from Kursk region):

"Putin, please help! Please help, they are destroying villages there! It's scary what is happening there! Please help!"

Dozens of Ukrainian kamikaze UAVs hit Russia's Lipetsk Air Base earlier today.

This air base serves as a key combat training center for the Russian Aerospace Forces.

The base is approximately 330 kilometers away from Ukraine border.

Chinese scientists are working on a new type of hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV) that represents a significant upgrade to China's hypersonic weapons capabilities.

— The new HGV uses a trajectory similar to a skipping stone, allowing it to dive into and jump out of the atmosphere multiple times.

— The skipping stone trajectory significantly increases the range of the hypersonic glider, potentially allowing it to reach the other side of the Earth.

— The vehicle can travel at speeds exceeding Mach 15 (15 times the speed of sound).

— It utilizes a new solid-fuel booster capable of multiple ignitions, enabling the repeated atmospheric entry and exit.

— HGVs are warheads designed to maneuver and glide at hypersonic speeds, allowing for controlled missile trajectories after launch.

Source: SCMP

Aftermath of Ukrainian strike on Russian Army column in Rylsk, Kursk region.

No shame at all: Israeli soldier who raped a Palestinian prisoner alongside other soldiers appeared on Israeli Channel 14 to defend his unit that committed the rape.

Another one: Russian Mi-8 helicopter was hit by FPV drone strike.

Russia now declares “federal emergency” for Kursk region.

Russian Army training ground hit heavily with GMLRS missiles and ATACMS clusters in Zaporizhzhia region.

No words: Western ambassadors pull out of Nagasaki memorial after Israel was not invited.

Ambassadors of the US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the European Union did not attend the ceremony.

Meir Ben-Shitrit, one of the IDF reservists suspected of raping a Palestinian hostage at Sde Teiman.

Ben-Shitrit describes his interrogation:

The military police treated us really nice. You see the support. With a hand on their heart, like, telling you 'thank you'.