Military technology
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The US has confirmed it is sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) battery to Israel. The highly advanced defence system possesses the ability to fend off ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight. The THAAD interceptor doesn’t carry a warhead, instead relying on its own…
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The Treasury Department on Friday fleshed out a proposed rule that would restrict and monitor U.S. investments in China for artificial intelligence, computer chips and quantum computing. The proposed rule stems from President Joe Biden’s August 2023 executive order regarding the access that “countries of concern” have to American dollars that fund advanced technologies, which the U.S.…
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Even as Russia’s air force struggles to make a difference in Ukraine, the service and the country’s aviation industry are discussing a next-generation fighter that will be deployed by 2050. Not coincidentally, the discussion comes as the US Air Force hints that it may drop its plan for a sixth-generation fighter, a piloted air superiority fighter that…
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