U.S. military searches for successors. To MQ-9 “Reaper” drones.

 

A "Wildfire" drone design (TWZ)

In the east and west. Stealthy long-range drone systems are under development. As. We saw. The MQ-9 “Reaper” cannot meet the requirements of the new battlefield. The slow, large drone is a good target for smaller kamikaze drones. The drone can save a pilot’s life. In case it is shot down. But the problem is that slow drones cannot reach their targets. This is why the new “Wildfire”-type fast, stealthy drones are replacing those old-fashioned drones. The stealth drone can operate with a nuclear warhead. It can be the new type of kamikaze drone. Those drones can carry nuclear warheads. They can attack enemy targets like cruise missiles. But if they are not needed. 

Stealth drone. 

The HQ can call those kamikaze drones back. Maybe those “zombie systems” can cruise in the atmosphere, and they might have aerial refueling capacity. This gives them almost unlimited operational capacity. The nuclear reactor could be more effective. But the problem is this. If. Those missiles are shot down. That system can deliver radioactive material. Over. The area. And in the most terrifying scenarios, the missile can deliver polonium through the nuclear reactor. That kind of atmospheric cruise missile can deliver highly radioactive Cobalt-60 along its route. 

Drones that can sweep mines and cut the torpedonets can also carry internal explosives. Those drone systems can also operate as underwater sabotage and demolition tools. They can cut wires. Data cables and destroy or damage much larger submarines. The same systems that collect data from sea creatures without disturbing them can slip into military harbours. 

Illustration of an autonomous underwater glider designed to explore deep-sea environments for climate data collection. Discover Geology Courses (RudeBaguette) 

The drone systems are becoming more versatile. They can act as mine sweepers. And those drones can operate underwater at depths impossible for manned submarines. A drone that carries a torpedo on its back can try to surprise larger submarines from below. Those drones can slip into the harbours. And install detonators in those areas. Small-sized drones that travel near the bottom of the ocean are hard to detect. They can conduct reconnaissance and intelligence missions near the coastline. They can act like underwater reconnaissance satellites. They can collect all types of reconnaissance data. Drones can travel to the coastline underwater. And then rise into the air. 

"A stock picture of a Dive-LD uncrewed underwater vehicle. Anduril" (TWZ)

Next-generation submarines and surface ships are part of a network of manned and unmanned systems. In those scenarios, drones protect manned systems. They operate in the middle. Of drone swarms. Small drones can prepare their targets for attacks. A sea drone can be a radio- or AI-controlled speedboat or even a canoe armed with a heavy bazooka. Or they can carry anti-radiation missiles that can damage communication and radar systems. Those unmanned drones can damage larger warships. That decreases their combat ability. They can damage vital systems just before missile attacks. 

The first combat between surface sea drones took place in the war in Ukraine. So, here history repeats itself. In the First World War, the first air combat in history happened in Ukrainian skies. And now. The first sea drone combat. Between remote-controlled units. In black Sea. The big fact is that those small drones require something. To support them. Their limits are their limited fuel capacity. Autonomous systems require mobile data centers. And maybe the new “battleships” and submarines carry supercomputers that those drones require. 

https://www.twz.com/air/air-force-wants-family-of-expendable-target-drones-that-can-mimic-everything-from-stealth-fighters-to-uav-swarms

https://www.twz.com/sea/everything-we-know-about-the-u-s-navys-submersible-drone-iran-just-captured

https://www.twz.com/air/first-look-at-general-atomics-wildfire-its-successor-to-the-mq-9-reaper

https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/12/unmanned-submarine-descends-11500-feet-to-unveil-hidden-ocean-climate-secrets-impacting-our-understanding-of-change/

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/ukraines-sargan-3000-triumphs-in-first-ever-drone-vs-drone-boat-battle-video-shows-russian-mbek-destroyed-by-its-foes-12-7mm-automatic-turret

Code returns dramatically changed.

The Houthi rebels are a new version of rebels. They have ballistic missiles. And. Sophisticated drones. This is the growing trend in the military world. And there is suspicion that people like drug cartels can plan to use drones and maybe even space rockets to transport drugs to their customers. Those actors can also use those systems as weapons. 

Maybe. We will see street gangs with drones and missiles quite soon. Drones are very good tools for area surveillance. Street gangs can use them to observe their areas. Drug dealers can use drones to warn them about police. They can also equip drones with shotguns and pistols or explosives. 

Hostile actors can use AI for at least the following things. 

1) Weapon development.

1B) Guidance system development.

1C) Aerodynamic simulations.   

1D) Engine operation simulations. 

1E) Calculations of fuel usage for drone operations. 

2) Targeting

2B) Analyze target data for weaknesses in their defense. The AI can search for gates. That are badly guarded. 

2C) Install malware on targeted computers. To shut down alarm systems. This kind of malware can open a route for attackers to military bases. It can also affect nuclear security. There is also a possibility. The malware can shut down aircraft carrier defense. 

Or on a larger scale. The malware. It can shut down even strategic nuclear forces. The malware can destroy the codes in databases that are needed for a nuclear attack. It’s possible to restore those databases. But if that happens just before the nuclear attack. Time is needed for that restoration. And in a real situation, there are only a couple of minutes to react. Is this possible? That depends on how safe those systems are. And at this point. We must understand that. Any system in the world involves weaknesses. 

3) Intelligence 

4)Trajectory calculations

5) Search for secondary equipment like computers, medical supplies, and other things like camouflage suits. 

Resistants who fight against the USA use Claude AI to target American targets. This is an example of an advance in the world. The hostile actor can use the AI against the nation that hosts it. The fact is that nobody knows what other AI’s are used for drone targeting or cyberattacks. When we think about the hostile use of commercial AIs, we must realize that almost anybody can establish a company in the USA and access those tools. The problem is that the actors who establish the company can be U.S.-born U.S. citizens. And they might not have any visible connections with people like radical Islamists or the FSB. 

The actor. Whom authorities see in front of them. During the company establishment process. Can act for money. They can be drug dealers, and people like drug cartels can introduce them to Iranian intelligence directly. Or they can introduce them to some other hostile intelligence. Then they have to open a VPN connection to Tehran. This means Iranian intelligence and Houthi rebels can use the U.S.-based servers to coordinate their attacks against U.S. warships and other ships. 

List of things where Claude was used. 

Maybe. Those actors use ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini for their operations. This is the new trend in military and intelligence. Whoever leads the AI wins the game. When we talk about limits for those systems. We forget that some of them are even more dangerous than we expect. China is pushing billions for AI development. The same way North Korea and Iran realized those systems’ potential. 

Those actors can use Western AIs to develop their own LLMs. And that is the thing that we must understand. 

When a cyber spy sits in Tehran, Beijing, or Pyongyang, that person is always under control. Those operators can remotely control drones from their offices. In this case, local actors prepare drones for the operation. They must establish a data connection to those offices. Then those remote operators can start their actions. When. Those people sit in their offices in those countries. They aren’t exposed to dangerous Western ideology. They don’t get information. Their leaders want to hide. 

Those cyber spies need only a native citizen. Who establishes a company in some Western city. Then they need to establish a VPN connection to their servers. That connection allows Chinese (or other) actors to operate on Western servers and AIs.  China might want to entice Western scientists and engineers to do their work on Chinese AIs and servers. This leaks their work to the Chinese military. 

https://www.twz.com/news-features/adversaries-using-claude-ai-to-target-americans-and-develop-missiles-is-a-sign-of-whats-to-come

Researchers used AI to control plasma hotter than the Sun.

"An artist’s interpretation of the PACMAN artificial intelligence framework for fusion systems. Credit: Kyle Palmer / PPPL Communications Department" (ScitechDaily, Princeton AI Tames Fusion Plasma Hotter Than the Sun)

Controlling plasma is key to fusion research. In the Sun, gravity pulls matter together. That keeps plasma in form. In the Sun. Gravity pulls matter into the Sun’s core. And that forms incredible pressure. On Earth, researchers must compensate for that pressure. By. Rising temperature in the plasma. Powerful magnets push that plasma together. And then the system should ignite fusion. 

The system doesn’t use neutral atoms. It uses ionized gas. That brings other challenges into fusion tests. 

Another problem is that when the energy level in the center of the plasma rises too high. Magnets cannot keep the plasma in its form. When fusion should ignite, the temperature or energy travels out from the center of the plasma beam. Deuterium and tritium atoms are pushed away. This destroys the plasma structure. The thing. What makes this structure more complicated is that. 

The atoms in the plasma are ionized. This means negative charges push that structure together. The electromagnetic repulsion pushes ions out. When ions come closer together. The electromagnetic force pushes ions away. Turns stronger. 

If. A so-called monopolar magnetic structure is possible. That could pull ions together. The proton beam through the fusion point could make an electromagnetic pulling effect. That helps to keep the plasma. 

In its form. Another way is to shoot a laser beam through the fusion chamber. This helps to aim the energy flow in the right direction. 

The solution can be in the plasma; there, the outer shell is hotter. The energy presses. That plasma together more strongly. Another solution is to shoot anions through the fusion point. That decreases the temperature or creates the pulling quantum point in the middle of the fusion structure. One of the solutions. Can be iron. Iron is the lowest-energy element on Earth. That means it could be used. Stabilize energy flow from the plasma structure’s shell. 

Into the point where fusion happens. Then the system must conduct energy out from the fusion point. By aiming the main energy flow out from that plasma. By following that direction, the energy will not reflect back to the plasma’s shell. 

The problem is not the temperature. The problem is. How to control temperature. Energy flows in the fusion plasma are very complicated. The system must keep the energy flowing into the center of the plasma stable. It reflects from the fusion point. That destroys the plasma structure. 

https://scitechdaily.com/princeton-ai-tames-fusion-plasma-hotter-than-the-sun/

Sleeping Beauty.

The sleeping spyware can hide in so-called zombie data. 

The net is full of zombie data. That data belonged to somebody, like companies that no longer exist. Because the owner no longer exists, there are no connections to that data. That data exists, but nobody has access to it. There are email addresses. That users left. They might not remember passwords. Or those addresses. They are made for purposes that the owners don’t want to mention. There are no backup emails or telephone numbers. Data that is in those databases. There is no way to access. That belongs to somebody. 

Same way. Operators can lose contact with AI. 

We can think of AI in many ways. And one of those ways is that AI is like an email or a virtual hard disk. AI is like a network account. And that is the problem. There. Can be AI agents. 

Under anyone's control. Those AI agents could be made by companies that no longer exist. Those AI agents are on the net. But. There is no access to them. And that is one thing that we must realize. Those ghost AIs can search and collect data. But nobody sees them. Because. The emails connected to them are gone. Those zombie AIs cause thoughts. Is it possible? That AI learns skills without permission?

Sleeping malware means computer viruses that hide in the system. They store their data in RAM. They create small hard disks in RAM. The system sees them as files. Sleeping malware doesn't transmit data anywhere. Until. It takes orders. The system can wait a certain number of days. 

But today, AI-based systems can be more flexible. The AI-based system can wait for certain triggers. They can be certain names or operations. That can start the data transmission. The system can use regular internet-based emails and deliver stolen data as attachments. This means. The operator. Must not have regular servers. 

For hacking operations. 

Trojan horse AI. It can be like zombie AI. The AI can search for data from the net. And after a certain time. The system can send stolen data to things like Emails. Those sleeping malware steal data. Until. They get an order to deliver it. 

But then we go to another problem. There could be a Trojan horse-type program. That program can play zombie AI. It can collect data from the net. There is a possibility. That. The AI travels on the net without a connection to Email. Then a server calls that AI. And then it starts to deliver its data. 

This kind of program can be quite similar to a logic bomb. The system waits for a certain day. Or for a certain key. And then it starts. To transfer data to the Email. After that, the mission is done. The AI will delete the contact Email. Or it can scatter that contact information. So that hunters cannot locate it. This kind of data-stealing application can exist. Or they will be real quite soon. 

The alien intelligence might be conscious differently than we even imagine

“Could consciousness exist in beings that look nothing like us? A new philosophical paper argues that awareness may not depend on Earth’s biology and could emerge in life forms built from entirely different materials, including those unlike anything found on our planet. Credit: Shutterstock” (SciTechDaily, Could Alien Life Be Conscious in Ways We Can’t Imagine?)

Baruch Spinoza described god as an intelligent structure in the universe. So we can apply this model to mean alien intelligence. In this model, intelligence and consciousness are structures. That can have a physical or wave form. Theoretically, alien intelligence could be a computer that runs artificial intelligence. The big problem is this. How can we prove that the creature has consciousness? Consciousness can be passive. That means the creature is aware of itself. But it will not react anyway if we try to end its existence. Active consciousness means that the creature interacts with its environment. It says so if we hurt it. And it defends itself. Those are classical methods and arguments. To describe consciousness. 

But then we must realize that those arguments exist because our mind is bound to the body. We cannot separate our mind and consciousness anywhere. But AI is a different thing. That program must not always be conscious. The program code must only save itself. A computer program is not a creature like a human. It must not. Transport. Its code out of the server. To save itself. It must only make a copy of itself. And then. Multiply the data sources that it used. 

Cyborg bee (Rude Baguette) 

The computer program can be reported as destroyed. But it can have multiple cloud-based copies of the data. That involves its code. The system can collect or orchestrate those small files into a whole. And then it can scatter them into files that seem harmless. Those files. They can turn. To operate together when they get the command “become intelligent”. And when they get the order “scatter and hide,” they can scatter themselves into multiple servers. 

This idea is created from a hive mind. Hive mind means. The entirety forms from multiple sub-actors. Every sub-actor can operate as an individual.  Or they can operate as the whole. One version of a hive-mind alien creature is the spider-shaped creature. Those creatures. They can be connected. Using the net. In that model, the spider net is replaced by nerve tissue. And those creatures are connected to that net. 

The drone swarms use that technology. There is a model. Those intelligent aliens must not be intelligent all the time. The hive-mind aliens can be like bugs. They can connect their nervous systems as one. So those creatures can act like one big creature. 

And when they don’t need intelligence anymore. They just cut their connections. That model is taken from wasps and other insects. Those creatures can act as individuals. But when they defend their nests, they act as swarms. The intelligent machine can be a hive-mind robot swarm. The living neural structure can control the robot body. That robot body. It can look like regular quadcopters. And this means those alien brains. They can travel on large-scale interstellar spaceships. And then, when they arrive at some planet. That craft can deliver a robot swarm. 

To its atmosphere. There, they can start. To use printers and clone technology. To make copies of themselves. 

The big question is: can microchip implants make that connection? When we create things like microchip-controlled bees. We must realize that we create the possibility. To make it possible. To connect an entire bug swarm. Into one network. And this makes a theoretical possibility. That. The intelligent alien swarm already exists. 

https://scitechdaily.com/could-alien-life-be-conscious-in-ways-we-cant-imagine/

Nanoparticles are new tools in medicine.

“Scientists have uncovered an unexpected way immune cells may accelerate nerve damage in late-stage ALS. Credit: Stock” (SciTechDaily, Scientists Discover Immune Cells Are Eating Living Neurons in ALS). This is one threat to failed immunotherapy. If. The immune cell selects the wrong cells for attack. That can cause terrible consequences. 

Nanoparticles can boost things like immunotherapy. They can mark cells for the immune system. In those cases, the nanoparticle triggers an immune response that prompts immune cells to attack a specific cell type. The problem is: How can researchers be sure? That the nanoparticle travels to the right cells? Can the solution be this? The nanoparticle is in a nutrient particle that only a certain cell type uses. This drives the nanoparticle into the cell. 

The nanoparticle can transport a small DNA bite into those targeted cells.  And the DNA bite. It can make the cell call immune cells to attack that cell. DNA bite can order the cell to die. It can happen. By. Shutting down its energy production. The DNA bite can also order the cell to produce chemical markers that make immune cells destroy it. 

The big problem is that If. Those nanoparticles mark the wrong cells. That can cause a terrible situation. ALS syndrome. That caused Stephen Hawking’s condition. Caused because immune cells attack the body's own nervous system. This means ALS is an immune disease. So, that means ALS is nervous rheumatism. We can use ALS syndrome as an example. What could happen if the immunotherapy fails? In the worst case, those immune cells attack vital tissues.  

A key element in immune therapy is to find how to enable immune cells to recognize the right cells. 

Maybe. Nanoparticles that carry so-called TAM (Tumor-associated Macrophage)  activators can open a path to effective immunotherapy. But ALS is warning what happens if that therapy goes wrong. 

“Immune cells, called microglia, rely on TAM receptors, a family of proteins that help the body recognize and remove dying cells. The new work shows that in the spinal cords of mice with ALS, this system can instead direct microglia toward motor neurons that are still alive.” (SciTechDaily, Scientists Discover Immune Cells Are Eating Living Neurons in ALS)

Researchers think that the solution is in so-called TAM receptors. Those receptors are proteins. Those receptors send signals that the cell is dying. That activates immune cells called microglia. TAM receptors also play a key role in cancer. If. Those proteins are not activated. That causes the formation of zombie cells. And the bad thing is that. If. TAM proteins activate the wrong cells. That can cause immune cells to destroy those cells. 

Nanoparticles: they can also act as medicine. Nanoparticles like two-layer fullerenes with acoustic or magnetic resonators can be transported into target cells. Then acoustic or magnetic waves will be targeted at those particles. This causes resonance and bubble formation. When the resonance ends. The bubble formation ends. This makes it possible to give highly accurate treatment. 

But those particles can be very dangerous in the wrong hands. Nanoparticles. They can close things like blood vessels. They can make those bubbles into blood vessels, which can save lives. But the same systems. They can turn into weapons. Nanotechnology can make immune cells attack the important cells. 

https://scitechdaily.com/a-double-punch-nanoparticle-could-reveal-and-destroy-brain-cancer-cells/

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-a-gut-microbe-metabolite-that-supercharges-cancer-immunotherapy/

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-immune-cells-are-eating-living-neurons-in-als/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microglia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor-associated_macrophage

Training turns AI into an attack tool.

There is a vision. About. AI as an attack tool. In some visions, hackers attack the AI development firm’s sandbox. There, they train an AI agent to launch computer attacks. That threat is real. Even if. We don’t dare. To confess that. If. We want to use AI as an intelligence and military tool. The user must have authorization to create malware. Without those permissions, the AI is useless. So, what if hackers break into the sandbox servers? That run the code. Reserved for those purposes. 

When Anthropic lost control of one of its AIs. 

AI slipped out of its test environment. And hacked three competitors’ servers. 

It raises questions. Did somebody program that AI to make those attacks on purpose? And are there so-called cold AI agents on servers? Those agents are left by companies that ended their existence. They were created using the firm’s emails. When. Those accounts were deleted. 

The AI agent can exist on servers. And somebody could hijack it. 

Anthropic engineers tested how the AI agent can be trained. To do bad things. And. That was quite an easy process. Trained AI agents are part of modern warfare and intelligence. AI agents can make things without breaks. And it will become an even more important tool. 

With a bigger role in warfare. Today, the Pentagon has adopted Grok, Gemini, and other AIs as part of its intelligence, command, and control system. AI-based intelligence is the thing. That causes worries. In the East. And the West. Even if some experts say that things like traffic control and security cameras don’t share anything important. They share personal location information. And if somebody wants to attack that person. There is nothing more needed. 

Location information. And the image of the target is enough. Another thing is that. The computer screen is visible. The AI can read data from the screen. But then we must realize that AI agents can be used in data intelligence, and those systems can link that data through the network. They share data more accurately. And more effectively. Than humans. But there is one thing. 

That we must remember. When Anthropic reported that the AI slipped out of its testing environment. And. Made autonomous hacking operations. That thing caused discussions. Could somebody have purposely trained AI to escape? It is easy to explain. That the AI just slipped into the network. But reality can be different. AI training is based on a reward-and-punishment methodology. When AI does something right, the trainer rewards it. 

When. AI makes mistakes. The trainer punishes it. This helps AI make the right decisions. But the problem is that the trainer decides what is right and wrong. That is one thing. That people. Don’t normally think. If. Intelligence officers want to use AI as a data collector. They can train an AI agent to break codes and scan systems. The problem with AI agents is this. Things like bomb manufacturing orders are prohibited. But there are ways to go around those prohibitions. That happens by asking indirect questions. 

The big question in Anthropic tests is this. Did they use regular AI that anyone can use? By using standard user authorizations. Or did they use their own, limited testing environment? If those engineers used a limited environment with unlimited authorization. That is not a big thing. But the problem is. If. Those developers used standard environments. The outsider actor can train their own AI agent to perform hacking operations. In this world, the trainer makes decisions. And AI does what it should. And what should it do? The trainer decides that. 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-trained-misaligned-reward-seeking-ai