[GK3]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/new...025-05-16/

This is Putin's new head of ground forces. It is my guess he is being appointed to end the war in Ukraine "soon". Whether he can actually do that is a good question, but IMO it isn't indicative that Putin is thinking about peace in the immediate future. Even if he is, he is at the very least creating a viable "plan B".

On another tangent, I have been reading about France's new laser weapons designed to fry drones and other electronic equipment from range.  This report covers a turret mounted device with a range of 1 km.  I have read other stuff that indicates they now have a man portable unit with a range of 500 m. I have no idea if this weapon gives away it's launchers location or whether or whether it simply fries the target and know ones knows where it came from.

https://www.google.com/search?q=French+l...e&ie=UTF-8

[GK3]

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/new...025-05-16/

This is Putin's new head of ground forces. It is my guess he is being appointed to end the war in Ukraine "soon". Whether he can actually do that is a good question, but IMO it isn't indicative that Putin is thinking about peace in the immediate future. Even if he is, he is at the very least creating a viable "plan B".

On another tangent, I have been reading about France's new laser weapons designed to fry drones and other electronic equipment from range.  This report covers a turret mounted device with a range of 1 km.  I have read other stuff that indicates they now have a man portable unit with a range of 500 m. I have no idea if this weapon gives away it's launchers location or whether or whether it simply fries the target and know ones knows where it came from.

https://www.google.com/search?q=French+l...e&ie=UTF-8