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Protecting drones from high-power lasers with reflective or thermic coatings is fails to protect. It is a known countermeasure that's been researched since the Cold War, but modern 100 kW and 300 kW lasers defeat it quickly and reliably for typical small/medium drones (Group 1-3 UAVs like FPVs or commercial quadcopters). Dusty days can reduce ... Read more

Elon Musk just dropped a bombshell statement that CHANGE AT VERY LARGE SCALE is coming on self-driving. As a top futurist predictor I think Elon is saying TESLA FSD 14.3 (10x model with reasoning) will come in March/April and this will unleash robotaxi and Cybercab at scale.

For too long the US was using $2 million missiles to fight $300-$30000 threats. No longer. There is shift and and armraces of the cheap, good enough drones. The US now has cheap $35000 drones too and combat lasers are getting deployed for $5 per shot defense. It is $35000 drone for $35000 drone and ... Read more

Israel's Iron Beam (aka Or Eitan) laser air-defense system is fully operational. On December 28-30, 2025, the first operational 100 kW system formally delivered by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems to the IDF. This was the transition from testing to serial production. They are integrated as the innermost (fifth) layer of Israel's multi-tier air defense alongside ... Read more

The U.S. Navy has deployed the HELIOS (High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance) during Operation Epic Fury and there are reports of shooting down Iranian drones. US CENTCOM released footage in 2026 showing an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer equipped with the steerable high-energy laser operating off Iran's coast while launching strikes. The New York ... Read more

Iran does not conduct official ethnic censuses, so all figures come from CIA World Factbook, Britannica and demographic compilations. The breakdown has remained stable: Persians (Fars): 61% (~56-57 million) - majority in central, northern, and eastern provinces; dominant in Tehran, Isfahan, Fars, etc. Azerbaijanis (Azeri Turks): 16% (~15 million) - mainly northwest (East Azerbaijan, Ardabil, ... Read more

William Shatner, Captain Kirk, gave screenshots of the live X Money UI. X Money (also called X Payments or the payments/wallet feature inside the X app) is Elon Musk's long-planned move to turn X into a super app like WeChat. Handling P2P transfers, wallets, debit cards, bills, shopping, creator payouts, and eventually banking/investing/crypto all in ... Read more

China and Russia clearly are seeing the next level nature of US and Israel tech enhanced intelligence and drones integrated with everything else. Combined operations (aka joint operations or combined arms) means coordinated military action across multiple services (army, navy, air force, space, cyber) or allied nations to achieve effects greater than any single branch ... Read more

New York, USA, 4th March 2026, CyberNewswire

President Trump announced today (March 3) that the Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait if needed, and the U.S. government will provide political-risk insurance so commercial ships can operate. This is modeled directly on the 1987-88 Operation Earnest Will tanker convoy system during the Iran-Iraq Tanker War. Oil tankers are waiting by Oman ... Read more

Navy Decoded, youtube channel, explains how the US Navy prevents Iran's Hypersonic missiles from hitting US ships or the aircraft carrier. The US mainly relies on electronic countermeasures. The iranian missile has to be able overcome jamming to try to maintain a lock on a moving target. The US creates spoofing for false targets. The ... Read more

Iran cannot use 60% enriched uranium directly in its current form (UF, which is stored as a solid in cylinders but handled as a gas or liquid during processing) to build a gun-type nuclear bomb. It must first be converted to metallic uranium, which is required for any fission weapon core. However, once converted they ... Read more

Iranian Kurdish groups (PDKI, Komala, PAK, PJAK, etc.) formed a formal anti-regime coalition in late February 2026. They are preparing for potential self-rule in Kurdish-majority areas (northwest Iran). Some small-scale successes like Kurds freed Kurdish prisoner in Mariwan by Killing prison Guards. US officials are coordinating armed groups as proxies. Netanyahu pushing for Kurdish involvement. ... Read more

BYD is experiencing a 36% decline in February 2026 sales compared to February 2025. This is six months in a row of sharp drop in sales in China, its core market, with global volumes down significantly year-over-year for six straight months through February 2026. March, 2026, is a hugely important month. There will be no ... Read more

San Francisco, CA, United States, 3rd March 2026, CyberNewswire

Iran is extremely unlikely to produce functional nuclear bombs in the current environment-and certainly not quickly. The disruptions from Israeli and U.S. operations (including the ongoing strikes), combined with long-standing Mossad targeting of personnel. Advanced Israeli intelligence capabilities like hacked surveillance, have degraded or eliminated the secure, large-scale infrastructure and expertise required. Building even crude ... Read more

The current analysis is that Tesla is still making a much cheaper model Y and model 3. Projected pricing for E41 (cheaper Model Y) and D50 (cheaper Model 3) assumes the reported 20% production-cost reduction vs. current refreshed/base models, with Tesla maintaining the same gross-margin percentage. Is dry-electrode 4680 (higher density) achieve these costs, or ... Read more

Starlink mobile has 10 million monthly active customers for direct to cellphone 4G capability. This is with 650 V2 mini satellites. They support text, voice, basic data and basic video calls. SpaceX will launch V3 satellites that are three times bigger and 100 times the capacity. This will enable 5G capability at 150 mbps in ... Read more

Israel (via Unit 8200/Mossad cyber ops) spent years hacking into Tehran's public traffic cameras and related feeds specifically to track the daily movements and bodyguards of Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. This intel directly fed into recent assassination/strike planning. They found the useful traffic cameras and used those to track Khamenei, IRGC and ... Read more

Hermeus successfully flew its latest Quarterhorse aircraft, marking the company's second first flight in less than a year. The flight kicks off a test campaign that will see the unmanned aircraft reach supersonic speeds. Roughly the size of an F-16 and powered by a Pratt & Whitney F100 engine (Pratt & Whitney is an RTX ... Read more

The real secret of SpaceX is an operating system built around Time Over Money. It is the governing law with extreme loop compression (making every development cycle radically faster). In aerospace cost = people * time compressing time by 10* automatically makes things 10-1000* cheaper. Musk's team ruthlessly deletes bureaucracy, sets impossible deadlines as forcing ... Read more

Iran's regular surface navy is being systematically sunk and the Iran Navy headquarters was crippled, but the mini-subs and small mine-laying vessels-the ones actually capable of rapidly closing the Strait of Hormuz-remain the primary active threat and have not been neutralized in public reporting. | U.S HAS SUNK THE IRIS ... Read more

Torrance, United States / California, 2nd March 2026, CyberNewswire

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2nd March 2026, CyberNewswire

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