1. What Actually Happened? On 20 June 2025 state broadcaster CCTV aired footage from the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) showing a student, Liang Hexiang, balancing a micro-robot “the size of a mosquito” between his fingers. NUDT engineers explained that the bionic craft’s flapping leaf-shaped wings and hair-thin legs let it hover, perch and even crawl inside buildings—ideal for…
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A Chinese team has just fired a laser “no brighter than a candle” from geostationary orbit (GEO) and moved one gigabit of data per second—roughly five times what Starlink typically delivers—proving that low‑power optical links can beat today’s largest low‑Earth‑orbit (LEO) constellation on both speed and altitude. Behind the headline is a deeper story of adaptive‑optics wizardry (the…
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The Rising Threat of Drones in Modern Warfare and Public Security Drones as Emerging Threats: Small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have rapidly become a double-edged sword – offering benefits for civilians while introducing new threats on battlefields and in public spaces ctc.westpoint.edu ctc.westpoint.edu. Terrorist organizations and insurgents have weaponized cheap commercial drones for bombings, kamikaze…
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From AI-powered drone swarms to autonomous cyber defenders, artificial intelligence is reshaping the battlefield at a startling pace. Military powers worldwide are racing to deploy smarter machines that can think, learn, and even make decisions on the fly – promising to redefine how wars are fought. Are we on the brink of an AI-driven revolution in warfare,…
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