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Eve Sampson, AT for experts and analysts, the event is a snapshot into how warfare is changing Source link

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has decided some fundamental tenets of Christianity mark the world’s largest faith as a cult, and one that needs vigorous suppression. That includes sentencing a 77-year-old man to jail, in part, for helping young Christians find spouses and believing that faith in Jesus gets people into heaven. According to the CCP, these were the “heretical” activities of a “cult.” Pastor Yang Zhijin was sentenced to three years in prison, along with 30 of his congregants, for “using a cult organization to undermine the implementation of the law.” The CCP was referring to Yang’s house church,…

EAM S Jaishankar and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal visited the stall of Aero GreenGreen Aero, the Bangalore-based aerospace start-up, is now advancing indigenous transonic and supersonic Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programs, leveraging its newly operational propulsion infrastructure and successful micro-turbine engine developments. This marks a decisive step in India’s push to field autonomous combat platforms capable of high-speed operations in contested airspace.Green Aero has already demonstrated its engineering maturity through the successful long-duration test of a 400N thrust micro-turbine engine. This compact propulsion system, designed from first principles, validates the firm’s indigenous technology stack across turbomachinery, ignition, rotor dynamics, metallurgy,…

Mani Nouri, Manipolitic The rescue mission that unraveled Source link

In the first week of June, two seemingly unrelated events took place in Seoul. On June 3, U.S. and South Korean officials met to discuss the implementation of South Korea’s civilian reprocessing and enrichment program. The same evening, Seoul’s conservative mayor Oh Se-hoon was re-elected. Coincidental though they may be, the events should serve as a reminder that South Korea’s nuclear and political futures are tightly intertwined. South Korea’s Nuclear Future In September 2025, the United States broke with a long-term policy practice and expressed support for South Korea’s ambitions to acquire uranium enrichment and reprocessing, intended to secure Seoul’s…

AP Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu during his visit to the Quantum Reference Facility.Amaravati Quantum Valley announced on Friday that its indigenous dilution refrigerator successfully reached four Kelvin, equivalent to minus 269 degrees Celsius, at the Quantum Reference Facility in Medha Towers, Amaravati.This milestone marks a significant advance in India’s efforts to build a domestic quantum technology ecosystem.The achievement was highlighted by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu during his visit to the Quantum Reference Facility. The breakthrough supports Andhra Pradesh’s ambition to position Amaravati as a hub for advanced technologies and strengthens India’s cryogenic engineering capabilities. A press release described the…

Benjamin Giltner, RealClearDefense What’s old is new again. This can be said for nuclear weapons in world politics. Source link

The Eurosatory 2026 exhibition displayed a remarkable balance of change and continuity in its armoured vehicle line-up. Source link

In March 2021, Admiral Philip S. Davidson, then commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Beijing was accelerating its ambition to supplant the United States and its leadership role in the rules-based international order. Davidson warned that China appeared to be moving forward the timeline for goals it had long said it hoped to achieve by around 2050. Seizing Taiwan, he assessed, was clearly one of Beijing’s major objectives before then, and the threat could manifest during the 2020s, possibly within the next six years. Davidson’s written testimony also noted that Beijing had announced plans…

India’s Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft (AMCA) project has revealed notable design choices that distinguish it from other fifth-generation fighters. Unlike platforms such as the F-35, J-35, KF-21 and TFX, the AMCA sacrifices internal payload capacity in favour of greater aerodynamic performance.The aircraft’s internal weapons bay is configured with only four hard points, allowing it to carry four air-to-air missiles compared to six in most comparable designs.When configured for air-to-ground missions, only two hard points will be available for strike weapons, while the remaining two will likely be reserved for advanced air-to-air missiles such as the ASTRA MK-2 or the upcoming…