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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

Cars That Think

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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Auto component makers to double investments as global supply chains shift from China to India – ET Auto

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During this period, the global automotive supply chains have been rejigged, with supplies moving away from Europe and China, towards South East Asia and India. Several factors have precipitated this shift: the pandemic induced chip shortages, the US-China trade war, then the Russia-Ukraine conflict and now the Israel-Palestine one.

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Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

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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. Israel opted to pursue laser weapons in part because its Iron Dome missiles cost so much more than the unguided, largely homemade rockets they defend against.

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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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