🚨🇷🇺 NATO IN PANIC: RUSSIA’S T-80BVM TANK GETS NEW ARMOR FOR DRONE WAR A previously unseen T-80BVM configuration has appeared with a tighter roof screen and expanded side protection. Russian engineers are turning lessons from frontline crews into a more coherent armor package built around the threats tanks actually face in Ukraine. 🔸 The lower anti-drone screen sits closer to the turret and covers more of its upper surface than many early field-built cages. It is designed to trigger FPV warheads away from the thin roof and disrupt clean top-down attacks. 🔸 Additional Relikt explosive reactive armor and side screens strengthen the hull flanks, fuel-tank areas and engine compartment against shaped-charge weapons — the sections drone operators repeatedly try to reach. 🔸 The upgrades preserve the T-80BVM’s main advantage: mobility. Its 1,250 hp gas-turbine engine can push the tank to around 70 km/h, allowing crews to fire, relocate and avoid remaining exposed in one position. 🔸 The tank retains its 125 mm gun, modern fire-control system and ability to launch guided missiles through the barrel, giving it the firepower to engage armor and fortified positions from range. 🔸 Uralvagonzavod says recent T-80BVM batches incorporate combat experience and direct feedback from the front, with the main emphasis placed on crew safety and overall survivability. 🔸 Russia has also increased production of the T-80BVM, T-90M and T-72B3M severalfold. New batches continue to reach the troops as anti-drone protection becomes a standard part of the upgrade process. The T-80BVM keeps its turbine-powered speed while adding protection where FPV crews look first: the turret roof, hull sides and engine deck. Every clean attack angle is becoming harder to find. Which matters most for tank survival now: roof armor, electronic warfare or speed?

Road and area closures begin at 10:15 AM today for a Booster 21 engine test. The test is expected between noon and 1 PM. You may hear a low rumbling and feel some vibration for a few minutes at most. That is normal and expected. The test is controlled and safe for the public. Please stay clear of closed areas until testing is complete. Thank you.

BREAKING: Inside Impulse Space with Tom Mueller (@lrocket) (SpaceX's 1st Employee) FULL TOUR The famous engineer behind the Merlin engine, now Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (@GoToImpulse) ICYMI: Merlin still powers Falcon 9 today, the most reliable rocket engine ever flown & the highest thrust-to-weight ever developed. It's the workhorse behind nearly every SpaceX mission: Starlink launches, Dragon crew & cargo flights to the ISS, & booster landings Tom walks us through the factory floor, from the avionics clean room to a live rocket engine firing in the vacuum chamber Impulse is building the in-space mobility layer: the vehicles & engines that move spacecraft after launch, from LEO to GEO, the Moon, infinity & beyond We cover: → Mira: precision maneuvering spacecraft & its saiph thrusters (8 thrusters, ~50 lbs thrust, 5-yr orbit life) → Helios: long haul same-day delivery vehicle (12 tons of LOX/methane, LEO to GEO) → Deneb Engine: 15,000 lbs thrust engine that powers Helios, ox-rich staged combustion, carbon skirt running over 3,000°F → Why 3D printing is "almost a cheat code" for rocket engines → In-house composite tanks, Novaloy, & copper liners machined from 700 lbs down to 25 → 3 spacecraft in orbit + a 1,200-meter rendezvous → Starlink, iterating Merlin & Raptor, & working with @elonmusk → Nuclear propulsion, the Moon, & why compute needs to move to space 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Tom Mueller, Founder, CEO & CTO of Impulse Space (00:49) Inside Impulse Space (02:32) Avionics Bay floor (02:59) Building rockets at home (03:50) Mira and Helios (08:00) Why Tom left SpaceX (09:33) The Deneb Engine walkthrough (11:42) Testing in Mojave (12:23) Favorite part of the Engine (13:30) How it's 3D Printed (14:21) Why 3D Printing changes everything (16:54) Finding Talent for COPVs (17:28) No Modern hardware without software (19:52) The Mill Turn explained (22:42) Payload Deck Design (25:28) Entering the Secret Area (30:48) Thrust, Flow Rate, & 100 Sensors (32:13) Collision avoidance in Orbit (32:57) The Electric Propulsion Chamber (34:28) Nuclear Electric is the future (38:49) Data Centers in Space (40:28) SpaceX & Starlink's Growth (41:10) Working with Elon (42:07) If not CEO, then what? (42:32) Moon matters more than Mars

Guerrilla Games co-founder Arjan Brussee, a longtime Epic Games veteran who previously served as global director of product management for Unreal Engine, is developing The Immense Engine. The new engine is made in the Netherlands as a European choice instead of Unreal Engine or Unity and follows all EU rules and keeps data inside Europe. The Immense Engine introduces new native AI integration from the outset. Brussee explains that AI agents can fundamentally change devs work with small teams making games faster It will be used for video games and also for 3D simulations in areas like defense and logistics The project, announced today via a Dutch podcast interview, is still in early development

Adrian Adrian. He does not only have the same first and last name. He is also our Technical Lead of Engine Assembly and brings our Helix engines to life. From small individual parts to fully assembled powerhouses for RFA ONE, the journey to ignition is intense 🔥 In the video, he shares his story and what it's like to work at RFA. Building history instead of just watching it unfold. For him, the roar of the engines is the greatest reward, but right after that? It’s time to work on the next ones. Because it takes many Helix engines to achieve the goal of flexible, regular and independent access to space for Europe 🚀 We are growing quickly and are looking for people who share our curiosity, passion and drive in the areas of development, production, assembly and testing! ➡️ Check out our open roles and join us: Engine Assembly Technician 🔗 Electrician (Sweden) 🔗 Avionics AIT Technician 🔗 Manufacturing Engineer 🔗 Welder 🔗

🚨🇷🇺 NATO IN PANIC: RUSSIA UNVEILS DAN-T JET-POWERED STRIKE DRONE BUILT TO BYPASS AIR DEFENSES Russia has unveiled the Dan-T, a combat-proven air-launched strike drone capable of hitting targets up to 450 km away while following a dedicated flight profile designed to evade enemy air defenses. Presented publicly for the first time at the El Alamein International Airshow in Egypt, Dan-T is not a showroom prototype. Russia’s state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec says its effectiveness has already been demonstrated through hundreds of successful launches against enemy targets. 🔸 Jet-powered attack: Unlike slower propeller-driven loitering munitions, Dan-T uses a compact turbojet engine to reach higher cruising speeds, reducing the time available for air defenses to detect and intercept it. 🔸 Long-range reach: With a range of up to 450 km, the weapon allows aircraft and helicopters to launch strikes far from the target area while remaining farther from enemy air defenses. 🔸 Multiple launch platforms: Dan-T can be carried by Russian and foreign aircraft and helicopters, allowing the weapon to approach targets from different directions without depending on a single specialized carrier. 🔸 Fire-and-forget: Once released, Dan-T continues toward its target autonomously without requiring constant operator control or an uninterrupted command link. 🔸 Built to evade defenses: Rostec says the weapon has a special flight mode for bypassing air-defense systems, complicating detection and interception on the way to its target. 🔸 Already tested in combat: Hundreds of successful launches have given Russian engineers operational data to refine the weapon long before its international debut. Dan-T combines the reach and speed of a cruise missile with the flexibility and potentially lower cost of a strike drone. Aircraft and helicopters become mobile launch points, while the weapon continues independently after release. The key advantage is mass: Russia can add jet-powered autonomous weapons to mixed strike waves containing drones and cruise missiles, forcing air defenses to track more targets approaching at different speeds and from different directions. Every additional target consumes attention, radar capacity and an interceptor that may cost far more than the weapon it destroys. Could Dan-T give Russia a cheaper way to overwhelm NATO air defenses?

🚨🇨🇳 PENTAGON SHOCKED: CHINA SENDS MISSILE-ARMED TRAINER JETS TO INTERCEPT PHILIPPINE AIRCRAFT China has found a cheaper and more sustainable way to counter Philippine air patrols around Huangyan Dao: deploy missile-armed JL-10 trainer jets instead of wasting valuable flight hours on heavyweight fighters. For the first time, the PLA has publicly shown armed JL-10s taking the lead in driving Philippine aircraft away from the area. 🔸 Footage released by the PLA Southern Theater Command showed at least three twin-engine JL-10s carrying PL-5 short-range air-to-air missiles. 🔸 The jets tracked and locked onto three Philippine aircraft — a BN-2A Islander, C-208 and PA-31T — as Chinese pilots ordered them to leave the airspace around Huangyan Dao. 🔸 The Philippine aircraft fly far slower than modern fighters. The JL-10’s low-speed handling allows it to remain close to them for identification, monitoring and repeated warnings without struggling to maintain position. 🔸 Although developed primarily to train fighter pilots, the JL-10 can also conduct light combat missions and carry live weapons. It therefore provides far more firepower than the mission requires without consuming the flight hours of a frontline J-16. 🔸 Exact PLA operating costs are not public, but a smaller trainer should burn less fuel and place significantly less wear on its engines and airframe than a heavyweight fighter. 🔸 J-16 fighters and an H-6K bomber remained part of the wider operation, giving China heavier options if the situation escalated while the JL-10s handled the close interception. The Philippines is a U.S. treaty ally and plays a central role in Washington’s strategy of applying constant pressure on China in the South China Sea. But Beijing no longer needs to answer every cheap Philippine patrol with one of its most valuable combat aircraft. By assigning routine interceptions to missile-armed trainers while keeping heavier aircraft behind them, China can maintain pressure around Huangyan Dao at a lower cost and preserve its frontline fighters for more serious threats. Has China found a smarter way to counter Philippine patrols without wasting frontline fighter hours?

⚡️The early Bitcoin holder may be one of the cleanest wealth outcomes capitalism can produce. Think about what happened to the rare person who accumulated meaningful Bitcoin very early and actually held it. They did not need to build a 10,000-person company. They did not need customers. They did not need employees. They did not need a board. They did not need to manage LP money. They did not need to continually recreate the economic engine that made them wealthy. They made one extraordinarily consequential capital-allocation decision, survived years of uncertainty, and eventually the asset itself did almost all of the scaling. That is an incredible lifestyle outcome. A founder worth $100M may technically have the same net worth, but much of it can be trapped inside a company requiring their attention, carrying payroll, lawsuits, competition, customers, executives, financing, and constant strategic decisions. The early Bitcoin holder can have $100M sitting in an asset that requires almost no organizational complexity to own. Enormous wealth. Tiny operating surface area. That combination is rare. There is also something profound about how the wealth was created. They recognized a new category before the world agreed the category was real. The wealth came from carrying uncertainty. Bitcoin looked ridiculous. Then dangerous. Then speculative. Then legitimate. Then institutional. Every step upward removed uncertainty while also removing asymmetry. The earliest holders were compensated for occupying the period when the world could still plausibly say the entire thing was worthless. But survivorship bias here is enormous. Thousands of people also concentrated into things they believed were revolutionary and lost everything. Even among people who bought Bitcoin early, many sold at 2x, 5x, 10x, or 50x. Others lost keys. Others got destroyed by exchanges. Others overleveraged. Others simply could not psychologically carry an asset through repeated 70% to 90% drawdowns while everyone around them told them they were insane. So the extraordinary outcome required several things to happen together: see correctly very early, size enough for being right to matter, survive enormous volatility, preserve custody, and resist selling when the gain already looked life-changing. That is almost impossibly difficult in real time. The highest form of wealth creation may actually be finding a very small number of generational capital-allocation decisions rather than continually maximizing labor output. One Bitcoin-like decision can compress decades of economic effort into ownership of the right thing at the right moment. Afterward, the entire purpose of wealth can change. You no longer need to optimize for more work. You can optimize for autonomy. Time. Privacy. Research. Relationships. Travel. Building things because they matter to you rather than because they need to pay you. And compared with becoming a billionaire CEO whose phone can never truly be turned off, the anonymous person who quietly owns enormous permanent capital may have won a different and arguably more valuable game. The founder builds a machine powerful enough to create freedom later. The generational investor finds an asset powerful enough to make the machine unnecessary. That second outcome is incredibly rare. But when it happens, the lifestyle asymmetry is almost absurd.

Game developer Thomas Grové from Studio Interrupt recreated the same horror game in both Unity and Godot to compare the engines side by side, and the results were surprisingly one-sided. The project, a retro-style horror game called “Eyes Never Wake,” was built in both engines under the same conditions. According to Grové, Godot performed better in most areas affecting everyday development. >The engine started much faster, scripts compiled dramatically quicker, exports finished in seconds instead of minutes, and the install size was only a tiny fraction of Unity’s. >Godot launched in about 13 seconds versus Unity’s 80 seconds, and exporting took around 2 seconds in Godot compared to nearly 15 minutes in Unity. >The developer also found that Godot delivered stronger lighting and atmosphere, showing how much the engine’s visuals have improved.

🚨#BREAKING#: An Ohio construction crew heard tiny SCREAMS coming from INSIDE a massive excavator… They crawled underneath, started taking the machine apart, and found a tiny KITTEN trapped inside. They saved her life, then they ADOPTED HER AND GAVE HER A JOB. 😂❤️ Her name is Sue, she even has her own custom-made hard hat and safety vest. On July 14, a crew from River Reach Construction was working at a job site in Leavittsburg, Ohio, when operating supervisor Chase Guello heard something strange coming from one of their excavators. At first it sounded almost like a faint beep or screech. So Chase started looking. He climbed onto the machine and looked down into the engine bay… …and there was a TINY ORANGE KITTEN walking around inside the excavator. There was no easy way to reach her, so Chase crawled UNDERNEATH the machine and started removing the skid plate. Finally, out popped this absolutely tiny kitten. Their “rescue mission of the day” had gone from fixing construction equipment to saving a little life. 😂 The guys brought her straight into their air-conditioned office trailer and started taking care of her. They spent DAYS searching the area for her mother or any siblings because they didn’t want to separate her from a family that might still be nearby. They couldn’t find another cat. So the construction crew decided this little girl was their problem now, s they found an experienced foster family who could properly care for her while she was still tiny, and for the next two weeks she was nursed back to health. And obviously a kitten discovered inside an excavator needed an appropriate name. The machine was a Komatsu. So they named her… KOMATSU. Sue for short. 😂😂😂 It gets even better. Videos of Sue’s rescue started spreading online and eventually reached the people at KOMATSU THEMSELVES. So the company sent their smallest new employee some proper PPE: A TINY SAFETY VEST. AND A TINY HARD HAT. 😭😂❤️ After two weeks in foster care, Sue was healthy enough to return to the people who found her. River Reach’s shop mechanic, Jared, and his family are giving her a permanent home. And once Sue is old enough, Jared plans to bring her back and forth to work with him. Her official position??? SHOP CAT. Chase said something about the whole thing that I absolutely love. "We sometimes get stereotyped as rough around the edges and not having feelings, but we still care for such a little kitten.” Millions of people have now watched Sue’s story. All because a construction worker heard a tiny noise inside a gigantic machine… …and cared enough to stop what he was doing and find out what it was. Good work, boys. 🇺🇸