🚨🇨🇳 CHINA’S DF-26 BALLISTIC MISSILE JUST GOT MORE DANGEROUS FOR U.S. CARRIERS China’s latest missile upgrade appears designed for the hardest target in the Pacific: a moving U.S. aircraft carrier. New CCTV footage shows a previously unseen DF-26 variant with a flattened nose section, potentially allowing a more manoeuvrable re-entry vehicle or a larger terminal seeker capable of tracking warships during the final stage of flight. 🔸 LESS HEAT, MORE MANOEUVRING: A blunter nose creates a cushion of compressed air during hypersonic re-entry, reducing peak thermal stress and potentially allowing the warhead to survive more aggressive terminal manoeuvres. 🔸 A SMARTER SEEKER? The larger nose section could house an active radar seeker or multi-mode guidance system capable of updating the missile’s aim against a moving carrier. The footage does not confirm the sensor, but the new shape is consistent with that possibility. 🔸 NEW PANELS, UNKNOWN PURPOSE: Previously unseen light-coloured panels or apertures are visible beneath the warhead section. Their function remains unclear, but they indicate that the changes may extend beyond the flattened nose. 🔸 4,000 KM OF REACH: The road-mobile, solid-fuel DF-26 can strike land targets and warships across much of the Western Pacific. It is dual-capable, carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads that are reportedly designed to be swapped in the field. 🔸 THE ANTI-SHIP ROLE IS ALREADY REAL: China fired a DF-26B into a South China Sea test area in 2020, while U.S. assessments credit the missile with the ability to conduct conventional precision strikes against naval targets. The new variant may be intended to make that mission more accurate and harder to defeat. The DF-26 already threatens carriers and military bases thousands of kilometres from the Chinese mainland. A more manoeuvrable warhead or smarter seeker could push that danger zone deeper into the Pacific — potentially threatening U.S. naval operations as far as the approaches to Guam. Do you think U.S. carrier strike groups can survive inside the DF-26’s 4,000-km reach?

Digital Foundry put Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave on Switch 2. It holds 30fps. There is no 60fps option. Intelligent Systems put the game out last week. DF played about two hours and did not see the frame rate fall off. The hitch Engage had when you left the map for a fight is gone. Loads are short. It does not run native 4K. Docked, they saw a 720p base rebuilt to 1440p. Handheld looked like 540p rebuilt to 1080p. They think it might be a light DLSS pass. Nintendo has not said that. Shadows go flat in spots. Filtering gets soft. It still looks cleaner than Engage. Mario Kart World does 60 on this machine. This game does not. For a tactics title, they took the stable 30. That is the Switch 2 Fire Emblem so far. Smoother than the last two. Not a tech flex.

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Rotating a vector 90° then pushing it through f must match pushing first then rotating – otherwise the map isn’t complex-differentiable. These grids make that concrete: the top shows df(zX) while the bottom shows z·df(X); forcing them equal unpacks straight into the Cauchy-Riemann pair ∂u/∂x = ∂v/∂y ∂u/∂y = −∂v/∂x. Aircraft engineers lean on exactly these relations when they build conformal maps to forecast airflow over wing sections, skipping full Navier-Stokes runs for early design loops. Which single arrow in the picture finally made the two equations feel inevitable to you?

🇸🇦🇮🇷 Satellite images show Saudi Arabia doubling its ballistic missile factory to build longer-range weapons on Chinese designs, with the first ones possible by New Year's The new casting hall at al-Duwadimi, 125 miles west of Riyadh, is twice the size of the old one and ringed with blast walls, and three separate analyst shops read it as the jump from the DF-15s Riyadh already fires into Yemen toward a DF-21-class missile that reaches Tehran. The digging started in April 2025, ten months before the Iran war, so this was a decision about America before it was a decision about Iran. Riyadh spent decades buying F-15s and Patriots and discovered this year that Washington won't sell the one weapon that deters Tehran, can't resupply the interceptors fast enough, and may bomb Iran again without asking. The fix is a Chinese missile line on Saudi soil, which means the next US president inherits a Gulf partner that no longer needs permission to retaliate. The possible casualty is the US-Saudi nuclear deal: a Senate that watches Riyadh build 1,000-mile missiles isn't going to hand it uranium enrichment, and MBS almost certainly knows it and built anyway. Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniel