Military & Defense

AI 2024-05-07T09:10:33Z
F-16 fighter jets

AI 'pilots' are getting so good they're sometimes beating humans in dogfights

The US Air Force has been actively exploring AI, which is seen as a transformative technology for military action globally.
Military & Defense 2024-05-07T08:27:41Z
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) reacts as he sits in a F-16 fighter jet in the hangar of the Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens, northern Denmark, on August 20, 2023.

Russia is raising a stink about F-16s in Ukraine by saying they're nuclear-capable, even though the types of warplanes already deployed there can carry nukes

Ukraine already uses the Su-24, which even Russian ally Belarus said in 2022 that it's modified to carry nuclear weapons.
Military & Defense 2024-05-07T05:22:39Z
Russia's former president and now serving as deputy chairman of the country's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev (L), visits the Totsky military training field outside Siberian city of Orenburg on July 14, 2023.

Russia's former president threatened nuclear attacks on Western capital cities if NATO sends any troops to Ukraine

Dmitry Medvedev said leaders in Washington, Paris, and London wouldn't "be able to hide" if they sent troops to Ukraine.
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