[WonderMomma]

wow...

Running in the latest American tank Abrams X, equipped with artificial intelligence.

Version X is 10 tons lighter than the serial version, and also has an uninhabited turret and automatic loader.

EDIT: WhiskeyOutpost ()

[Roosta]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

wow...

Running in the latest American tank Abrams X, equipped with artificial intelligence.

Version X is 10 tons lighter than the serial version, and also has an uninhabited turret and automatic loader.

I'm sure Whiskey will be getting a hard on !

[WhiskeyOutpost]

Our nerds at General Dynamics were definitely busy with this

We'll see how it does in real testing. I'm not totally convinced of the crewless turret concept - there's a reason why the US Army abandoned that concept in the early 80's (crew disorientation). Maybe the engineering team had this in mind and this model improves on that.

But yes a violence boner might be forming in my drawers.

[WonderMomma]

Polish air defense system "Osa-AK / AKM", secretly transferred to Ukraine. According to some reports, the Poles had 64 of them.

[WonderMomma]

Ok. I'm stumped. Someone is going to have to explain this to me.

What in the fuck is going on.

I thought Azov were nationalists? Am I being punked? (I'm being serious... )

[WonderMomma]

1. Czech fundraisers have hit their funding goal to procure and donate 15 domestically produced Viktor air defence systems to Ukraine.

The Viktor is a modernized ZPU-2 anti-aircraft gun mounted on a Toyota Land Cruiser 79.

[WhiskeyOutpost]

- IMO this is an effort to draw away Ukrainian forces from other areas.

[WonderMomma]

As of today 1 January 2023, Croatia becomes a member of the Schengen agreement.


From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement

The Schengen Agreement (English: /ˈʃɛŋən/ SHENG-ən, Luxembourgish: [ˈʃæŋən] (listen)) is a treaty which led to the creation of Europe's Schengen Area, in which internal border checks have largely been abolished. It was signed on 14 June 1985, near the town of Schengen, Luxembourg, by five of the ten member states of the then European Economic Community. It proposed measures intended to gradually abolish border checks at the signatories' common borders, including reduced-speed vehicle checks which allowed vehicles to cross borders without stopping, allowing residents in border areas freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints, and the harmonisation of visa policies.

In 1990, the Agreement was supplemented by the Schengen Convention which proposed the complete abolition of systematic internal border controls and a common visa policy. The Schengen Area operates very much like a single state for international travel purposes with external border controls for travelers entering and exiting the area, and common visas, but with no internal border controls. It currently consists of 26 European countries covering a population of over 400 million people and an area of 4,312,099 square kilometres (1,664,911 sq mi).

Originally, the Schengen treaties and the rules adopted under them operated independently from the European Union. However, in 1999 they were incorporated into European Union law by the Amsterdam Treaty, while providing opt-outs for the only two EU member states that had remained outside the Area: Ireland and the United Kingdom (which subsequently withdrew from the EU in 2020). Schengen is now a core part of EU law, and all EU member states without an opt-out which have not already joined the Schengen Area are legally obliged to do so when technical requirements have been met. Several non-EU countries are included in the area through special association agreements.

[WonderMomma]

UK stops importing Russian liquefied natural gas as of 1 January 2023.

[WonderMomma]

In Germany, the production of wheeled self-propelled guns RCH155 for Ukraine has started, - the British adviser of the manufacturer KMW.

"Sometimes combining two proven solutions in a new concept can be revolutionary while avoiding significant risks. Production of the Boxer RCH155 for Ukraine has begun."