🇺🇸 The U.S. Military Relies on One Louisiana Factory. It Blew Up.

Decades of consolidation have left the Pentagon vulnerable to mishaps—including when the sole maker of a crucial type of gunpowder went offline


https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s-military-has-an-explosive-problem-6e1a1049

https://archive.ph/6jLvj

Borisov said that Russia will use a nuclear tug in a joint project with China

The head of Roscosmos explained that the tug will allow large objects to be delivered from near-earth to near-lunar orbit
MOSCOW, 26 April. /TASS/. The nuclear tug "Zeus" will be involved in a joint project with China of the international scientific lunar station. This was announced on Wednesday by Director General of Roscosmos Yuri Borisov at the educational marathon "Knowledge. First".

“We have a nuclear tug called Zeus. We are going to put it into practice by 2030. This is one of the products that will help in the expansion of the moon, we are going to use it in a joint project with China,” Borisov said.

According to the head of Roskosmos, the tug will allow large objects to be delivered from near-Earth to near-lunar orbit.

According to Borisov, China is interested in Russian rocket engines.

“We have an agreement with China on the creation of an international scientific lunar station, we are actively working. They are interested in our competencies in engines, they really want to get them and figure out how they are made in order to repeat them,” Borisov said.

According to the head of the state corporation, the Russian Federation has such relations with India, Roscosmos helps in organizing the first flight of a manned spacecraft into orbit.

At the end of 2022, Roscosmos announced the signing of a program for the development of cooperation in space activities for 2023-2027 with the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA). In addition, the governments of Russia and China signed a cooperation agreement on the creation of an international scientific lunar station, the roadmap of which was presented in June 2021. According to the information provided, the construction of the station should be fully completed by 2035.

https://tass.ru/kosmos/17619395


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🚀 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Top Russian technical university campus in China’s Hainan island to focus on aviation and aerospace

The campus in Wenchang county, home to China’s fourth spaceport, aims to be up and running by September 2025

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3215959/top-russian-technical-university-campus-chinas-hainan-island-focus-aviation-and-aerospace

https://archive.ph/wLPJ9

🚀 🇨🇳 China has drawn a blueprint for future deep-space exploration development involving probing the moon, asteroids, comets, and other planets in our solar system. - Xinhua

🔹2024: Collect samples from the far side of the moon and bring them back to Earth. (Chang'e-6)

🔹2025: Collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a main-belt comet

🔹2026: Resource exploration of the lunar south pole

🔹2028: Build the International Lunar Research Station

🔹2030: Collect samples from Mars and explore the Jovian system and Uranus

https://archive.ph/iFY1G

🇪🇺 🇷🇺 Russian ‘spy ship’ in North Sea raises concerns about the vulnerability of key maritime infrastructure

A new documentary produced by a consortium of public broadcasters in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway has revealed what appears to be a profound threat to maritime and undersea energy and data infrastructure in the North Sea and the Baltic region. The Shadow War includes footage of a Russian research vessel called Admiral Vladimirsky allegedly collecting data on windfarms, gas pipelines, power and internet cables.

The film, which has been widely reported in the UK press this week, asserts that Russia is systematically mapping the vulnerabilities of maritime infrastructure in the North Sea. This would enable Russia to learn of any weak spots – for instance, the locations where underwater energy and data cables intersect, making it easier to mount a sabotage attack if the Kremlin deemed it necessary.

https://theconversation.com/russian-spy-ship-in-north-sea-raises-concerns-about-the-vulnerability-of-key-maritime-infrastructure-204205

⚓️ 🇪🇺 🇷🇺 The documentary tracks the movements of Russia’s ‘spy ship’ the Admiral Vladimirsky.

🇩🇰 🇷🇺 Danish reporters see armed men on Admiral Vladimirsky

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-65325909

🇸🇪 🇷🇺 Sweden’s State television publishes list of 21 designated Russian spies

Yesterday, Foreign Minister Tobias Billström (M) announced that five Russian diplomats would be expelled from Sweden, accused of espionage. Russia's ambassador Viktor Tatarintsev was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to be informed that the five must leave the country.

https://samnytt.se/statstelevisionen-publicerar-lista-med-21-utpekade-ryska-spioner/

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Palantir demo’ed a battlefield assistant calling in drones and quarterbacking a battle in Eastern Europe.

1) it’s a chatbot!
But with federated data retrieval based on intelligence classification access rules

2) notifications 📣 come in to the chatbot (this is 🤖 bot prompting human) first time I’ve seen in any demo

3) Dynamic content UI - maps, graphics, form field.. chat bot generates whatever it needs in the chat window

Model they used was GPT-NeoX-20B fine tuned, though they have a Flan-T5 XL and a Dolly-v2-12b.

📎 Ate-a-Pi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU&t=1s

📍Caprock Canyons, Texas

↖️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Major military activity is underway in the Pacific.

Updated map, latest developments, & breaking news

📎 Ian Ellis

Photos leaked to the Internet showing the leader of the Ukrainian military LGBT organization Victor Pilipenko participating in a gay orgy in the forest.

Viktor Pilipenko is one of the main popularizers of LGBTQ ideology in Ukraine who is trying to capitalize on alleged military service

Full leak https://xn--r1a.website/djejsbsi

🌎 Today is World Tapir Day, and an opportunity to talk about an animal which may have unappreciated significance on the politics of South and Central America, as well as Asia.

https://telegra.ph/World-Tapir-Day-04-27