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16.04.26 - 20:15
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Pentagon: Autobauer und Industrie auch für Waffenproduktion (Tichys Einblick)
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Die Initiative, die an die industrielle Mobilmachung im Zweiten Weltkrieg erinnert, soll die stark dezimierten Waffenbestände der USA nach dem Iran-Krieg rasch auffüllen und die Verteidigungsindustrie auf einen „Kriegspfad“ bringen, berichtet aktuell das Wall Street Journal. Hochrangige Beamte des Pentagon haben in den vergangenen Wochen über die von ihnen gewünschte Umstrukturierung mit GM-Chefin Mary Barra und
Der Beitrag Pentagon: Autobauer und Industrie auch für Waffenproduktion erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick....
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16.04.26 - 14:45
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From Trucks To Tanks: Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America′s Arsenal (ZeroHedge)
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From Trucks To Tanks: Pentagon Looks To Automakers To Rebuild America's Arsenal
With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage push to convert underused civilian industrial capacity, including struggling auto production lines, into wartime manufacturing hubs.
The Wall Street Journal is out with a new report that describes just that, noting that the Trump administration is exploring whether U.S. manufacturers, including GM, Ford, GE Aerospace, and Oshkosh, can convert civilian industrial capacity into weapons production as conflicts across Eurasia drag on and deplete critical weapons stockpiles.
The effort to boost the war economy is part of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has described as putting the defense industrial base ...
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16.04.26 - 02:03
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Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes (ZeroHedge)
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Waymo Partners With Waze To Use Self-Driving Cars To Track Potholes
Authored by Dylan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Two Alphabet-owned companies, Waymo and Waze, announced on April 9 that they will team up to detect potholes and share that information with local government agencies to help get them filled more efficiently.
A self-driving Waymo vehicle awaits passengers in Los Angeles on July 1, 2025. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
“Waymo is already making roads safer where we operate,“ said Arielle Fleisher, the company's policy development and research manager, in a statement. ”We want to build on the safety benefits of our service by partnering with organizations and city officials to help improve the infrastructure we all depend on.”
Waymo, which started out as a Google self-driving car project in 2009 and spun out into its own company under Alphabet in 2016, said the pothole program was inspired from feedback it gathered from city officials over the years and is inte...
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