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Finland, Ukraine develop warfare drone

Finnish-Ukrainian #drone equipped with radio control system, a transfer function, & VR goggles. It's #LongRange & resistant to interference

Described as a combination of an explosive charge & drone. Drone transports an #explosive charge which is detonated above a target

The explosion of #steel and #tungsten pellets scatters to the ground and can pierce the roof of a light #armored vehicle

kyivindependent.com/finland-uk

The Kyiv Independent · Finland, Ukraine develop warfare drone, media reportsThe Finnish company Insta describes the system as a combination of an "explosive charge and a drone." The drone can be used to transport an explosive charge that can detonate above a target.

I've been a neutral bystander in the "whose device is best" wars since it was a competition between Apple II and/or #Macintosh and #PC clones with #DOS. For 40 years I've used whatever was cheap, or a free hand-me-down.

If you told me I'd find a new reason in 2024 to prefer #Apple stuff over more #open designs, I'd have scoffed.

But if there's one company I trust above all others to #design to such a #tight standard there isn't room inside a #phone for three grams of #explosive, it's Apple.

→ Hezbollah exploding #pager trail runs from #Taiwan to #Budapest
reuters.com/world/middle-east/

“"The #Mossad injected a board inside of the device that has #explosive material that receives a code. It's very hard to detect it through any means. Even with any device or scanner," the source said.” “Another security source told Reuters that up to three grams of explosives were hidden in the new pagers and had gone "undetected" by #Hezbollah for months.”

The villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

Living on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Indigenous communities in Sarayaku have always lived in harmony with nature.
The rainforest, says Patricia Gualinga, is a sacred, conscious being.
So when an Argentinian company was allowed to place a huge amount of #high #explosive around the rainforest to prospect for oil, the local Kichwa people fought back and eventually took their case to an international court.
More than a decade after winning their legal battle, however, the explosives remain strewn around the community’s territory.
The Compañía General de Combustibles (CGC), an Argentinian oil and natural gas producer, signed a contract with the state oil company Petroecuador to look for oil in the area in 1996.

Although four neighbouring communities
– Jatún Molino, Pacayaku, Canelos and Shaimi
– accepted CGC’s offers, the 1,200 people of Sarayaku had consistently rebuffed the company’s sweeteners for gaining access to the area
– which included medical care, 500 jobs for the community and $60,000.

In 1999, Indigenous people in the area destroyed camps and confronted the oil workers, bringing work to a halt.
Nevertheless, by 2002, with the support of Ecuador’s military, CGC had brought its workers in, built oil facilities and dug 467 wells.
And, for seismic prospecting, it laid 1.43 tonnes of pentolite high explosive for seismic prospecting across 20 sq km (4,940 acres) of Indigenous territory
theguardian.com/global-develop

The Guardian · ‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosivesBy Beatriz Miranda