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US Military to Test Counter-Drone Tech in Urban Warfare Exercise
The US military is rethinking its approach to homeland defense, recognizing that protection from threats isn't just about what's outside, but also what's inside - and that includes countering the growing menace of drones. In a recent exercise at Yuma Proving Ground, military officials tested cutting-edge counter-drone tech in a…
#CounterdroneTech #UrbanWarfare #HomelandDefense #UsMilitary #Northcom
🟢 Analysis | 4/10
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Analysis of Urban Infrastructure Significance in War
An analysis was published on why urban infrastructure remains an important target despite the mass use of drones.
https://www.europesays.com/unitedstates/6917/ What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict #ActionOnArmedViolence #API #attribution #Civilian #CivilianHarm #CivilianCombatantRatio #combatant #gaza #GenevaConventions #HumanitarianImpact #IHL #israel #MilitaryAdvantage #OdedHen #proportionality #UrbanWarfare
What happens when a city becomes a battlefield? Mark Bowden shows you street by street.
#books #bookreview #MarkBowden #UrbanWarfare
https://smpl.is/an7in
🔴 Armed Conflict | 7/10
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Armed Clashes in Niger's Capital
Sustained gunfire and explosions reported in Niamey near the international airport and presidential complex. FPL rebel group declared support for coup-plotters.
This wasn’t jungle warfare. This was urban combat. Every building, street, and alley was a fight for survival. Bowden puts you right in the middle of it.
#UrbanWarfare #BookRecommendation #books #bookreview
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/battle-of-hue/
This wasn’t jungle warfare. This was urban combat. Every building, street, and alley was a fight for survival. Bowden puts you right in the middle of it.
#UrbanWarfare #BookRecommendation #books #bookreview
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/battle-of-hue/
🔴 Military Advance | 8/10
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Russian 25th Army advances in Krasny Liman
Assault detachments of the Russian 25th Army continue advancing westward in Krasny Liman. The 67th Motorised Rifle Division seized 5 strongholds and 57 buildings in the city's northwest. Russian Aerospace Forces struck the 60th Mechanised Brigade.
At least 6 California cities have recently been sites for military urban warfare exercises.
Residents have been distressed by low flying helicopters and simulated gunfire and explosions.
Exercises have gone into the early morning hours. They are described by the military as "normal".
I may be uninformed, but this is the first time I've ever heard of exercises in residential areas. Military bases have training facilities that simulate urban warfare conditions. What the actual fook is going on here?
#militaryexercises
#urbanwarfare
#california
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/long-beach-military-training-hotel-raid/
BRITISH TROOPS USE ABANDONED TUBE PLATFORM FOR URBAN WARFARE DRILLS
British soldiers practiced urban combat drills on a disused London Underground platform, preparing for potential conflict with Russia. Find out what this means for defense.
#UrbanWarfare, #BritishArmy, #LondonUnderground, #RussiaConflict, #MilitaryTraining
https://newsletter.tf/british-soldiers-train-russia-conflict-london-underground/
British soldiers are training in urban combat on an abandoned London Underground platform. This is a new type of training for potential war scenarios.
#UrbanWarfare, #BritishArmy, #LondonUnderground, #RussiaConflict, #MilitaryTraining
https://newsletter.tf/british-soldiers-train-russia-conflict-london-underground/
Legs Fantasy — “Female Mercenary Warriors in the City”, a 99 image action set following a tactical squad through a ruined urban battleground.
https://powershopz.com/Legsfantasy/243451
#LegsFantasy #ActionSet #UrbanWarfare #AICinema #TacticalSquad
🕹️ Title: AQtion
🦊️ What's: A libre FPS focusing on arcade gameplay with street fighting & semi-realistic damage
🏡️ https://www.aq2world.com
🐣️ https://github.com/actionquake
🔖 #LinuxGaming #FPS #UrbanWarfare #ESport
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Deb #RPM
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⚗️ Major release(Stable)🍎️
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🦣️ From:
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🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DtjbkBUl8cc
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Already, since Sept. 1, 2025,
ICE has spent nearly $8 million on new equipment
— including simulation rounds,
junk cars,
sniper training gear,
and a model building
— for various training courses,
including for its tactical training at #Fort #Benning,
per The Lever’s review of contracting records.
To train its sniper teams and special response groups,
ICE has also inked deals with military contractors and obscure security firms.
In July, ICE awarded a first-time, $23,000 contract to
#Reticence #Group #LLC,
a Texas-based armed security firm,
for “specialized law enforcement pistol and rifle” training.
The company, led by two SWAT officers in Texas,
advertises that it offers “covert and confidential armed security contractors”
for the private sector,
as well as
“firearms training that pushes limits.”
Another sole source contract in July for $35,000 was awarded to
#Path #Consulting #LLC,
a Virginia Beach-based firm that, according to a contract notice,
provides
“[close-quarter combat] live fire training”
and would help an ICE special response team
“develop new standard operating procedures.”
Although the contract notice indicated that
Path Consulting LLC had worked with ICE in the past,
no other online procurement records mention its name.
A call to a phone number linked to the company went unanswered.
In September,
ICE issued a no-bid contract to
Target Down Group,
a company owned by Dan LaLota,
the brother of Nick LaLota,
who has served as the Republican U.S. Representative for New York's 1st congressional district since 2023.
(Dan LaLota denied his brother had any role in the award when asked by Wired in September.)
Most of Target Down Group’s leadership are veterans of the U.S. special forces;
the company’s president,
#Dan #LaLota, is a former U.S. Marine.
The company’s website advertises
“elite firearms instruction,”
drawing from
“years of experience as veterans from U.S. Military Special Operations.”
In the Department of Homeland Security’s September justification for the no-bid contract,
officials wrote that ICE had an
“immediate requirement to procure precision fires and specialized observation capabilities for the national 'Special Response Team' (SRT) #sniper #program.”
“The law enforcement officers of ICE have a very challenging job to conduct,”
LaLota wrote in response to The Lever’s request for comment.
“Target Down Group is honored to have provided training to them in order to assist them [sic] perform their duties.”
The other ICE training contractors mentioned in this story did not respond to inquiries, nor did ICE.
https://www.levernews.com/shadow-contractors-are-training-ices-attack-teams/
#JonathanRoss #ReneeGood
#TargetDownGroup
#deportation #spendingblitz #LionheartAlliance #StrategicOperationsIInc #urbanwarfare
🕹️ Title: AQtion
🦊️ What's: A libre FPS focusing on arcade gameplay with street fighting & semi-realistic damage
🏡️ https://www.aq2world.com
🐣️ https://github.com/actionquake
🔖 #LinuxGaming #FPS #UrbanWarfare #ESport
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Deb #RPM
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🥁️ Update: 1.3.8-rc35
⚗️ Minor vers. 🐁️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/actionquake/distrib/releases
🦣️ From: 🛜️ https://github.com/actionquake/distrib/releases.atom
🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DtjbkBUl8cc
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m-P3MmhDc0
🐹️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Llax8vFwJcE
🎲️👥️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/br2Bmzzmi3o
"The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender
"John Spencer is considered one of the world’s leading experts on urban warfare. In addition to personal experiences from 25 years as an infantry soldier and officer in the US Army, including urban battles of Iraq in 2003 and the Battle of Sadr City in 2008, he has spent over a decade researching, publishing, and lecturing on all facets of urban warfare. He has conducted field research all around the world. Just in the last five years he has conducted research in India, Israel, Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ukraine. He has served as an advisor to the top four-star general and other senior leaders in the U.S. Army as part of strategic research groups from the Pentagon to the United States Military Academy. He has also trained multiple militaries in urban operations. His research focuses on all military operations in dense urban areas, megacities, and urban and subterranean (aka tunnel) warfare.
In February 2022, Spencer wrote a guide, The Mini-Manual for the Urban Defender, for the citizens of Ukraine on how to defend their cities. The manual was translated into Ukrainian and spread widely across all of Ukraine. It is now available in sixteen separate languages with many other translations in the works."
Rushdi Abualouf reveals a harrowing escalation in Gaza City as Israeli forces close in, targeting Hamas's last stronghold while thousands flee amid urban warfare fears. With 48 hostages still held, the city faces dire humanitarian fallout and mass displacement. Discover the full impact and unfolding tactics. Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk9dreldxo #RushdiAbualouf #Gaza #Israel #Hamas #GazaCity #Conflict #Displacement #Hostages #UrbanWarfare #UN #HumanitarianCrisis
🕹️ Title: AssaultCube Reloaded
🦊️ What's: A libre FPS w/ a battle between terrorists & special forces
🏡️ https://acr.victorz.ca
🐣️ https://github.com/acreloaded
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #FPS #UrbanWarfare
📦️ #LibreEngine #FreeAssets #Bin #Arch #RPM #Flatpak
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html
🥁️ Update: 2.18.3
🕵 2.18.3: 👏️⭐⭐⭐⭐
⚗️ Signific. vers. 🦍️🚀️💎🐞️🐞️🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/acreloaded/acr/releases
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/114721768080842992
💥️🎲️👥️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/xhB-DV_0ssk?start=1614
💥️🎲️👥️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/BkGeof7PtVo
💥️🎲️👤️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/t6glgVvEjjU
"The mass murder in Gaza outlines a pattern, a set of tools and measures of extermination, subjugation, and expulsion".
"What is it about genocide that Global-North governments find so valuable and attractive that they protect its screamingly criminal substance and application, even at the cost of completely ruining their standing with everyone else on the planet?"
It sets a precedent "to subdue the cities of the Global South (and the poor in general").
"Why?
"The general reason is obvious, and while there would be much to say about it, let’s just summarize it here: The West is in decline in a severely crisis-ridden world (it has produced most or even all of these crises, but let’s pass over that irony for now). Its “elites” have decided not to adjust constructively – which would be entirely possible by compromise, cooperation, and sharing – but instead […] they will fight for what they hubristically see as their “garden”."
Tarik Cyril Amar (2024) https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/the-gaza-method
"When an abject lack of compassion has the redeeming feature of being accompanied by a blunt lack of sophistication": https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/p/germanys-annalena-baerbock-the-debility-0b5 🧵
#decline #warfare #GazaMethod #imperialism #urbanWarfare #Gaza #genocide #GazaGenocide #GenocideJoe #Germany #Baerbock #Eichmann #Arendt #evil #AnnalenaBaerbock #Greens #TheGreens
**Amerykanskyi startup XDOWN rozrobyv dron-kamikadze P.S. Killer (PSK) rozmirom z miach dlia amerykanskoho futbola, prydznachenyi dlia shvydkoho rozgortannia.**
PSK, pozytsionovanyi yak "broś i zabud'", stvorenyi dlia syl spetsial'noho pryznachennia ta kontrterorystychnykh operatsii, zabezpechuiuchy shvydkist', skrytnist' ta tochnist' navedennia.
Dron aktyvuietsia mit'tievo pislia brośku, mozhe rozvyvaty shvydkist' blyzko 250 km/h ta maie dal'nist' polotu bil'she 64 (!) kilometriv.
PSK prydznachenyi dlia porazky vysoko tsinnykh tsilei ta mozhe vykorystovuvatysia v miskyh umovakh dlia tochnykh udariv iz minimal'nym ryzykom dlia hromadians'koho naselennia ta infrastruktury.
#Kolibri
#Latynka
#UkrainianLatin
#XDOWN
#PSKiller
#Drone
#KamikazeDrone
#TechInnovation
#DefenseTech
#CyberSecurity
#SpecialForces
#CounterTerrorism
#TacticalGear
#UrbanWarfare
#StealthTech
#PrecisionStrike
#MilitaryTech
#FutureWarfare
#DigitalIntegration
#WesternVector
#InformationSecurity
#HybridWarfare
#AIWeaponry
🕹️ Title: AQtion
🦊️ What's: A libre FPS focusing on arcade gameplay with street fighting & semi-realistic damage
🏡️ https://www.aq2world.com
🐣️ https://github.com/actionquake
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #FPS #UrbanWarfare #ESport
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Deb #RPM
📖 Our entry: 🛒️Homeless
🥁️ Update: 1.3.8-rc34
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🕹️ Title: AQtion
🦊️ What's: A libre FPS focusing on arcade gameplay with street fighting & semi-realistic damage
🏡️ https://www.aq2world.com
🐣️ https://github.com/actionquake
🔖 #LinuxGaming #ShareYourGames #FPS #UrbanWarfare #ESport
📦️ #Libre #Bin #Deb #RPM
📖 Our entry: https://www.lebottindesjeuxlinux.tuxfamily.org/en/online/lights-on/
🥁️ Update: 1.3.8-rc26➜32
⚗️ Hotfix 🐞️
📌️ Changes: https://github.com/actionquake/distrib/releases
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🦉️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/DtjbkBUl8cc
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m-P3MmhDc0
🦝️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Llax8vFwJcE
🎲️👥️ https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8CGXSFtGaQ
Close-quarters combat in an urban area.
@nadiaalbelushi Poland and Germany accepted millions of Ukrainian refugees. Are you saying they support Russians genocide in Ukraine?
Seriously, I don't get how people can advocate for forcing civilians to stay in an urban warzone.
One side of the street has gone organic and recycling, one side has gone organic and landfill. Tomorrow: four bins enter, three bins get emptied!
[The Atlantic]: A Knife Fight in a Phone Booth
I learned the grim reality of urban combat in Fallujah. By Elliot Ackerman
#DefSec’s Oct 13 arrival in #TelAviv coincided w/rising WH anxiety that events could spin out of control. When #Austin made his low key entry to #Israel #Defense Ministry via underground parking, he embraced his counterpart, Def Min #YoavGallant.
Austin, who knew well the challenges of #UrbanWarfare from his 4★Gen days overseeing the campaign to root out #ISIS in #Iraq & #Syria, had knowledge to share. In private, he urged #Gallant to “think thru what they are trying to achieve” & how to do it.
Fascinating analysis @warontherocks on the experiences from #Iraq in #UrbanWarfare.
#Hamas on 7 Oct managed to launch a brigade-sized multi-domain and multi-platform assault - and will now be well-prepared against an #Israeli ground offensive in #Gaza.
https://spotify.link/sMp93KjI1Db
RT SpencerGuard: ICYMI, what \@LiamSCollins and I have taken from the last year of war in Ukraine. #UrbanWarfare #RussiaUkraineWar️ https://mwi.usma.edu/twelve-months-of-war-in-ukraine-have-revealed-four-fundamental-lessons-on-urban-warfare/
#CopCity [4]
Remember #CopCity ?
The already immensely militiraised US (Atlanta) Police force is building a training facility for #UrbanWarfare !
In a nature reserve meant for a poor predominantly black/latinx community.
Already the cops killed one protester, falsely claiming he/they were shot at. (It was their own fire)
Would you consider signing a petition (after reading) at:
https://act.presente.org/sign/invest-communities-stopcopcity/?t=17&akid=14186%2E842423%2EsFA_QF
My husband made pickled vegetables this week. I’ve been snacking on them and they’re so delicious. Though tomatoes weren’t in the mix, this mundane household tale reminded me of the Ukrainian woman who brought down a Russian drone last year by hurling a jar of pickled tomatoes at it. Such a great story.
Anyone heard of #CanadianBikerWars ? Apparently in recent decades wars between motorcycle clubs raged in #Quebec. Dozens of bombings, hundreds murdered.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Biker_War
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_Biker_War
