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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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The war between Russia and Ukraine is making a lot of high-tech military systems look like so many gold-plated irrelevancies. This war is a war of drones, they are the super weapon here,” Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs, told Newsweek earlier this year. Ukraine denied the allegation.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers. Israel made news in April by field-testing an airborne antimissile laser called Iron Beam, a play on the name Iron Dome, the missile system it has used to down rockets fired from Gaza.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

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Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! Israel is nowhere near the Top 10, but I just wanted to brag). In October, our relatives in Israel bought this amazing Hyundai Ioniq BEV, designed and built in Korea. Heck, even Israel crossed 3% last year.

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