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		<title>A drone war is won by the side that can build more</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is running the most systematic effort by any outside power to convert the Ukraine war’s lessons into military advantage: The first offensive lesson is economic. In March 2025, the PLA Daily treated as settled fact the claim that a single reconnaissance-strike drone costs less than 1 percent of a modern fighter while achieving more [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dan-T is reportedly based on the Dan-M aerial target</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia’s new Dan-T loitering munition is effectively a small cruise missile: It has a slender cylindrical fuselage with swept wings and a conventional tail, rather than the broad delta-wing shape characteristic of the Geran family. Released images of the aircraft make it appear to be over 3 m long with a wingspan of approximately 2 [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The missile was developed with an eye toward future conflicts in the Pacific</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covenant, a U.S.-Israeli company founded in 2024, unveiled its Anthem weapon system recently: Covenant has not publicly disclosed the weapon’s range, although unconfirmed reports put it at roughly 1,200 kilometers — over 740 miles. The company is also being somewhat deliberate about how it describes Anthem, referring to it as a “deep precision-strike munition” rather [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kheibar Shekan’s guidance system allows it to adjust its trajectory and maneuver rapidly to strike within 10 meters of a target</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran has fielded a new generation of ballistic missiles that can evade American air defenses and strike with far greater precision: The centerpiece of that shift is a highly mobile ballistic missile Iran calls the Kheibar Shekan, or &#8220;Castle Breaker,&#8221; which has a range of 900 miles and a satellite-guided, maneuverable warhead. […] Unlike a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamera is the first UAS designed to carry bomber-class strike munitions</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/09/gamera-is-the-first-uas-designed-to-carry-bomber-class-strike-munitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[California-based Swarm Aero on Monday unveiled a new low-cost unmanned aerial system capable of carrying a payload of more than 2,800 pounds: In a press release, the company said Gamera is the first UAS designed to carry bomber-class strike munitions such as the Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, or LRASM, and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Those re-entering dummy warheads were seen by tens of thousands of people in Peru and Chile</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago I noted that Tom Clancy’s Debt of Honor, about a nationalist Japanese plot to cripple the US economy and seize US-controlled islands, is best remembered for presaging the 9/11 attacks, and Roo_ster found “echoes of Jerry Pournelle and his sci-fi buds from the 1960s through the 1980s,” which led Bruce to [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis and Clark brought an air rifle on their expedition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis and Clark brought an air rifle on their expedition, back in 1803-06, and now, a couple centuries later, Ian of Forgotten Weapons discusses the almost-semi-automatic non-firearm: Apparently Girardoni and Girandoni were both accepted spellings of the designer’s name back in Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Tyrol region (then part of the Habsburg lands), where, according [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>88 million American adults own guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the 2026 National Firearms Survey, 32.7% of U.S. adults (95% CI 32.2% – 33.2%) personally own firearms, suggesting that approximately 88 million American adults own guns: Following the practice of major survey programs such as the General Social Survey, Gallup, and Pew’s American Trends Panel, household income is not employed as a weighting [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>She had been designed and built specifically to be Grand Fleet Headquarters, and nothing else</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/08/she-had-been-designed-and-built-specifically-to-be-grand-fleet-headquarters-and-nothing-else/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I’ve mentioned before, a modern warship’s Combat Information Center — that wonderfully telegenic room full of maps, computer consoles, and sweeping polar displays of radar and sonar echos — was, according to Rear Admiral Cal Laning, taken “specifically, consciously, and directly” from the spaceship Directrix in the Lensman novels of E.E. Smith, Ph.D. Smith [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>A single twenty-ton fermenter working at full capacity could produce enough spores to fill one missile in one or two days</title>
		<link>https://www.isegoria.net/2026/07/a-single-twenty-ton-fermenter-working-at-full-capacity-could-produce-enough-spores-to-fill-one-missile-in-one-or-two-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Alibek explains (in Biohazard) that he was asked how long it would take to “arm” an SS-18 missile with anthrax: The giant SS-18 missiles, which could carry ten five-hundred-kiloton warheads apiece over a range of six thousand miles, had never been considered before as delivery vehicles for a biological attack. When the Soviet biological [&#8230;]]]></description>
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