The helicopter gunshop Mi-28NM is being fitted with drones which Russia will be able to fire from missile launch tubes, an insider told state news agency Tass. The source said: "Built-in instruments transmit information from the helicopter's weapons control system to the payload, be it controlled detonation missiles, guided missiles, mini-drones or suicide drones.
"For instance, it can charge the drone's battery, transmit the activation command, and turn the drone on to send it on a pre-programmed mission."
Initially, the unguided aviation missile cluster, developed by the Zaslon research centre, was designed specifically for the Mi-28NM - but it will now be usable on all Russian combat helicopters which are equipped with a weapons control system, including the Mi-28 and Ka-52.
Last year, state corporation Rostec confirmed it was developing killer drones, capable of tracking, intercepting and neutralising enemy drones…."The electromagnetic pulse (of the counterattack drone) suppresses the electronics of the drone and it either falls or continues to move, but loses contact with the one who sent it - in fact, the device becomes blind and useless." https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1343260/russia-news-vladimir-putin-suicide-drones-attack-helicopters-world-war-3-doomsday-drone
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Analysts at information group Jane’s estimate that more than 80,000 surveillance drones and almost 2,000 attack drones will be purchased around the world in the next 10 years. experts say the starting price for the technology is about $15m (£12m) per unit, with more for add-ons, on top of the training and the crews needed to pilot them.
In 2019 alone, Jane’s experts expect the world’s 10 biggest drone powers to spend some $8bn on units. The first phase of drone warfare was dominated by three countries: the US, the UK and Israel. The US and UK rely on Predator and latterly Reaper drones made by General Atomics, a Californian company owned by billionaire brothers Neal and Linden Blue. Israel develops its own technology.
Drones rapidly proliferated in a second wave over the past five years, with Pakistan and Turkey developing their own programmes. Since 2016, Turkey has used drones heavily against the separatist Kurdish PKK in its own country, in northern Iraq and more recently against Kurdish groups in Syria.
China meanwhile has begun supplying a range of countries with its Wing Loong and CH series drones, including to the UAE – where they have been used in a string of deadly strikes in Libya – as well as Egypt Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, although not every country has been able to deploy what it has bought. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/nov/18/killer-drones-how-many-uav-predator-reaper
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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump welcomed more than 150 guests as the president formally introduced Judge Amy Coney Barrett, his nominee for the Supreme Court. A handful of Republican senators were there, including Mike Lee of Utah, who hugged and mingled with guests. So was Kellyanne Conway, the recently departed senior counselor to the president, as well as the Rev. John I. Jenkins, the president of the University of Notre Dame, who left his Indiana campus where a coronavirus outbreak had recently occurred to celebrate an alumna’s nomination.
Spirits were high. Finally Trump was steering the national discussion away from the coronavirus pandemic — which had already killed more than 200,000 people in the United States and was still raging — to more favorable terrain, a possible conservative realignment of the Supreme Court.
Attendees were so confident that the contagion would not invade their seemingly safe space at the White House that, according to Jenkins, after guests tested negative that day they were instructed they no longer needed to cover their faces. The no-mask mantra applied indoors as well. Cabinet members, senators, Barrett family members and others mixed unencumbered at tightly packed, indoor receptions in the White House’s Diplomatic Room and Cabinet Room. Five days later, that feeling of invincibility was (gone gone gone.) https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:yLQ8A8yU7RAJ:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-virus-spread-white-house/2020/10/02/38c5b354-04cc-11eb-b7ed-141dd88560ea_story.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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10. When a youth toys with the soul of his comrade spectators marvel at his daring, not seeing the shackles binding the wretched soul. When a man denounces an assembly of judges witnesses admire his courage, not knowing that the daring of his threat has been bought with the jingle of gold. When an aged man comforts himself by deriding death his friends delight, unmindful that fear has fashioned his mask of derision. -M: Agni Yoga 1929
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