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[Regnum] The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Attorney General's Office has classified the incident on board a Flydubai passenger plane as an attempted terrorist attack. This was reported on October 3 by the WAM news agency, citing a statement from the country's Attorney General, Hamad Saif al-Shamsi. Sounds right.
"The investigation into the incident on Flydubai flight FZ1073 has established that the co-pilot attempted to commit a terrorist act," the statement said.
Omani national Hamam al-Hammami, 29, with his complicated resumé as each employer noticed his extreme piety and fondness for the odder corners of the internet.
The perpetrator used a wrecking axe to attack the plane's captain, the Prosecutor General clarified. The head of the oversight agency explained that the attacker's primary goal was to hijack the plane.
Yes, but not for ransom. To create an Israeli 9/11. Israeli has some lovely, tall apartment buildings in Tel Aviv nowadays.
Flydubai Flight FZ1073, a Boeing 737 MAX, departed Dubai for Tel Aviv on the morning of September 30. Two and a half hours after takeoff, the aircraft began to rapidly lose altitude. The crew issued an emergency signal to the air traffic controller, and a few seconds later, another alert indicating a possible hijacking. The aircraft was over Jordan at the time. The plane then turned around and headed for Saudi Arabia.
That was the work of the replacement pilots, one assumes, though why they didn’t just land in Israel once the bad guy was secured is beyond me.
As it turned out, during the flight, the co-pilot, an Omani, attacked the captain, attempting to kill him and steer the plane into the ground. One passenger speculated that the co-pilot, presumably a UAE national, was attempting suicide. While carrying out the attack, the pilot shouted a Muslim slogan.
Allahu ackhbar? Maybe the tweet we had on thr first day of the man shouting that was from that flight after all.
The captain suffered serious injuries to his arms and head.
The plane didn't crash because the pilots were on board, who were able to neutralize the attacker and land the aircraft in Saudi Arabia. There were 180 people on board, including 27 children. Most of the passengers were Israeli citizens. There were no Russians on board.
Wasn’t the dentist a Russian-Israeli? Someone was, because Regnum was very proud to claim someone as a Russian patriot.
New details on copilot emerge
[IsraelTimes] A regional official and a person familiar with the matter said the copilot had been barred from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views. The official said he was moved to an administrative job at Oman Air. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
The copilot was later hired by UAE-based airline flydubai, the person said. It was not immediately clear to what extent the copilot was vetted.
The Gulf diplomat said he had undergone standard security checks before being hired, but it appears that the checks focused on whether he had been convicted on criminal charges and didn’t go deeper into examining his background for potential signs of radicalization.
The regional official also said security agencies from four regional countries were working to establish the copilot’s motives, aided by the United States and other Western governments.
Flydubai captain says copilot asked to pray then struck him from behind; describes exactly how he opened cockpit door
[IsraelTimes] Speaking to PM, Smit Machchhar says terrorist Hamam al-Hammami kept crew outside from using code to enter cockpit; report says pilots from Iran, Syria, Iraq have flown airliners to Israel, and that al-Hammami had done so before
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed as "a true hero" the Indian captain who helped thwart the terror attack aboard a flydubai flight to Tel Aviv, as the pilot recalled his dramatic account of being bludgeoned by his Omani co-pilot while the aircraft plunged toward the ground.
Captain Smit Machchhar spoke to Netanyahu by phone on Saturday, as other details of Wednesday’s rescue on Flight 1073 emerged, along with questions regarding Israeli negligence ahead of the near disaster.
Machchhar told the prime minister that shortly before the attack on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, his co-pilot, identified Friday as Hamam al-Hammami, asked to pray.
Machchhar said that four or five minutes later, he was suddenly struck with "a big blow" to the back of his head, initially believing the plane had suffered catastrophic damage.
"But then, after that, the blows kept coming, one after the other," said the pilot, who is in the United Arab Emirates recovering from his wounds. "That’s when I realized that it’s not the aircraft, it’s the other guy who was in the cockpit with me."
Al-Hammami attacked Machchhar inside the cockpit with a crash ax and attempted to take control of the aircraft, the UAE prosecutor general said Saturday. Crash axes are kept in cockpits for emergencies, including to cut through panels or break windows.
Barely able to see after being struck repeatedly, Machchhar said he then felt the aircraft "sharply going down."
His first attempt to open the cockpit door was thwarted by al-Hammami, he said. While lying on the cockpit floor, he remembered hearing people screaming. "I had that one last fight left in me," Machchhar said
"If I don’t do it, I’m going to die," he recalled thinking. "I gave everything that I had, and just went for the door and opened the door." Passengers waiting outside then rushed into the cockpit and helped regain control of the plane.
Machchhar explained that the cockpit door could be opened from inside using a twist-to-open mechanism, while anyone trying to enter from outside needed a code.
"My colleagues from outside were trying to put in the code, but the guy was not allowing to open the code," he explained.
He added that he managed to reach the cockpit doorknob and give it a "short, quick twist" to open.
"It’s a twist of fate," Netanyahu replied, "and it’s a twist of faith, and what you did is remarkable."
During the conversation, Netanyahu invited Machchhar and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an ally of the premier, to light a torch at Israel’s next Independence Day celebration, despite lacking the authority to make the selection unilaterally.
Under the government-established selection process, torch lighters are chosen through a public advisory committee and subsequently approved through the designated ministerial process, which under Netanyahu’s recent governments has been led by Likud loyalist and Transportation Minister Miri Regev.
"You are a hero of Israel, you are a hero of India, and you are a hero of the entire world," Netanyahu told Machchhar. "And I can tell you that people here will welcome you with open arms."
PASSENGER RECOUNTS FIGHT TO SAVE NOSEDIVING PLANE Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels... Yaniv Hayun, the plumber who prevented Flight 1073 from nosediving after Machchhar was attacked, offered his own blow-by-blow account of the chaos aboard the plane.
Speaking to Channel 12, Hayun said he rushed toward the cockpit after hearing screams that someone had been stabbed, only to be thrown to the floor as the aircraft shook violent mostly peacefully.
"At some stage I was able to get up when the plane balanced out a little," Hayun recalled. "Then I went to the door [of the cockpit]. A crew member was standing there, apparently a pilot, as he had on a white shirt... I moved him and opened the door. He didn’t resist. It was a little difficult [to open] because the Indian pilot was lying on the door. The terrorist was bent over with his knees on the controls between the pilot seats in the cockpit and was trying to break the equipment."
Hayun said that he then grabbed al-Hammami by the neck and moved him aside, after which other Israelis managed to tie him up.
After pulling the terrorist away from the cockpit, Hayun said he looked through the window and saw the plane heading toward the ground, though "not in a very steep direction."
He grabbed the controls and helped stabilize the aircraft until, seconds later, one of the off-duty pilots aboard took over. He had previously recalled knowing how to stabilize the plane from watching a TV show about airborne disasters.
"I went back to the terrorist. A little later we beat him so he wouldn’t resist any longer," Hayun added.
Hayun said passengers remained suspicious of the other crew members after the attack, unsure whether any were connected to al-Hammami, and kept them under close watch for the rest of the flight.
ATTACK SAID TO EXPOSE ’COLOSSAL’ ISRAELI SECURITY FAILURE
Al-Hammami, who was reported to have been previously banned from flying by Oman’s national airline over concerns that he had been radicalized, had flown flydubai aircraft on the Dubai-Tel Aviv route several times before allegedly attempting to crash Flight 1073, according to a Channel 12 report on Saturday.
Israeli authorities were reportedly investigating whether he had flown the same route in the days immediately preceding the terror attack.
Flydubai provided Israeli authorities with the names of the flight crew, including al-Hammami, ahead of Wednesday’s flight, but none sparked security concerns, Channel 12 reported.
Israel was unaware that al-Hammami had reportedly been barred from flying by his former employer, Oman Air, over concerns about his radicalization. According to the report, the Transportation Ministry does not oversee foreign airlines’ vetting of pilots as required by law, while the Shin Bet and Mosssd ...sees all, knows all, gets 'em all in the end... do not conduct their own background checks. The ministry confirmed that it does not conduct background checks later on Saturday.
Unnamed security sources described the failure as a "colossal security screw-up," saying al-Hammami had been planning the attack for some time while Israel had "not a scrap of information on him."
As of Saturday, Israeli Sherlocks had yet to be given access to al-Hammami, who is under investigation in the UAE, and are relying on material provided by the UAE and Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... , where he was first held after the plane landed, the report noted.
Channel 12 also reported that Israel, together with unnamed foreign authorities, was "racing against time" to determine whether there were additional pilots from enemy and hostile states flying foreign airlines in and out of Ben Gurion Airport in the wake of the attack.
In recent years, pilots from Iran, Syria and Iraq and other enemy states have flown foreign airliners into and out of Israel, the outlet reported, citing unnamed professional sources. These pilots reportedly have dual citizenship, with a second passport potentially issued by a non-enemy state.
[Reuters] British counter-terrorism police investigating a suspected plot involving an air base used by the US said on Saturday they had released on bail a dual UK-Iranian national who had been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
The 25-year-old man was detained on Thursday over the incident last weekend involving the RAF Fairford base in western England from where US bombers have taken part in raids against targets in Iran.
Police confirmed he had now been released, and searches at two properties in London had concluded.
"The investigation into the circumstances surrounding events in Gloucestershire is continuing," police said in a statement.
The incident near Fairford began in the early hours of last Sunday when five British men in their 20s were arrested near three vans on suspected terrorism and explosive offences.
The men were later released without charge on police bail "under stringent conditions", and although detectives said petrol was found in the vans, no improvised explosive device was present.
Counter-terrorism police, who have described the investigation as complex, said they were considering whether a foreign state had been involved and Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Wednesday it might have had an Iranian link.
[North Press] Two Iranian nationals appeared before a London court on Saturday, accused of preparing terrorist acts allegedly targeting the Jewish community in Manchester, northern England, according to British prosecutors.
Rahman Salehi, 35, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, were charged with preparing to commit an act of terrorism or assisting another person to commit such an act, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.
The charges relate to alleged conduct carried out on or before September 20, the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, according to the CPS.
At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, prosecutor Mark Luckett said the two men were accused of conducting what prosecutors described as “hostile” surveillance of potential targets in Manchester.
The alleged targets included the Manchester Jewish Museum and the Heaton Park synagogue, Reuters reported, citing the prosecution.
We knew about the synagogue, but the museum is new.
“Both defendants are accused of preparing acts of terrorism targeting the Jewish community in Manchester through the use of a homemade explosive device,” Luckett told the court, according to Reuters.
Prosecutors allege the men were acting in coordination with a third Iranian national believed to be based in Iran. They also allege that the planned device could have been made using chlorine and brake fluid.
New also is details about the device.
Salehi and Ahmadyan were arrested on September 20. According to Reuters, both men entered the UK from Europe in small boats. Salehi was granted asylum in 2020, while Ahmadyan’s asylum application remains pending.
And the specifics of their asylum status.
The defendants did not enter pleas during Saturday’s hearing and were remanded in custody. They are due to appear at the Old Bailey in London on October 23, Reuters reported.
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[DM] Gaining access to the man who – with the exception of Donald Trump – must be the most heavily protected individual on the planet was never going to be straightforward, but nothing could have prepared me for the ordeal to come.
Drama queen.
After being dropped off by taxi just down the road from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, my photographer and I headed for the seven-storey building a minute's drive from the Knesset in central Jerusalem.
We negotiated the anti-ramming bollards outside and showed our IDs as we passed through a wrought-iron gate and entered a world of scanners and X-ray machines that would put the most exacting airport screening to shame.
As the security checks got under way, we were surrounded by armed guards carrying MI6 assault rifles and, two hours later, I was still there as the Daily Mail photographer had all of his equipment taken apart to ensure that none of it contained explosives.
No one knows about the lethal potential of electronic devices better than the Israelis, who two years ago killed and injured hundreds of members of Hezbollah by triggering explosives concealed in pagers and walkie-talkies.
My interview with Netanyahu had been arranged for 8.30pm on Thursday, but it was past nine by the time I got to the purpose-built studio where our conversation was to take place. There were more armed men, this time special forces troops, masked up and dressed in black.
The prime minister arrived shortly afterwards and, after a warm handshake, motioned me to a chair opposite him at the long oak table that dominated the room.
For a man who has spent the three years since the October 7 attacks negotiating one crisis after another, not least the Flydubai hijack attempt just 18 hours earlier, he looked surprisingly relaxed. Dressed in a dark suit – with an enamel badge of the Israeli flag on his lapel – and a white shirt with a royal blue tie, it was soon clear he meant business. Britain's Labour Government, he said, was behaving 'like a rogue state' and appeasing an 'Islamist Leftist alliance'.
He was referring to its decision last month to ban trade with Israeli settlements on the West Bank, which followed Keir Starmer's decision to withhold some arms licences and to recognise a Palestinian state before all of the October 7 hostages had been freed.
He was particularly incensed by the move because it coincided with Israeli intelligence tipping off our security services about an impending Iran-sponsored 'murderous attack' on RAF Fairford.
'It was stopped. It was prevented,' he said, adding that, without the intelligence Israel provided, 'it would probably have gone through and we don't know how many British lives would have been lost'.
Netanyahu insisted Israel still regarded London as an ally, but then launched an extraordinary broadside against the Government. 'It's mind-blowing hypocrisy, I don't know how many lives we have saved giving Britain information about impending attacks.
'They're appeasing, they're attacking Israel, [the country] that is fighting the terrorists in the terrorist regime that is attacking them. They appease their enemies, and they attack their protectors, really. That's what's happening. But this is a twist of both logic and justice. It doesn't serve Britain well, it doesn't serve the world well.'
Netanyahu, who confirmed that he is yet to speak to Andy Burnham despite the fact the former Manchester mayor took office in July, went on to accuse Labour of bowing to domestic pressure over its approach to Israel.
'There is a pressure from inside Britain to appease these various Islamist forces in Britain. And once you start appeasing, you don't stop. That's what we learn. Churchill called it the slumber of democracies. And by that he meant the democracy sort of slumbers while their enemies begin to attack them… until they hear the jarring gong of danger.
'Well, it's gonging all the way, and they still haven't woken up.'
Asked how he would characterise relations between the two countries, Netanyahu was equally forthright. 'Well, it's not very good, is it? I mean, when they appease our common enemies and attack us, it doesn't say much.
'Look, we're fighting the battle, I call it the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Western civilisation against these barbarians. And there's so much deception. There's so much propaganda. I mean, trying to glorify Hamas, trying to glorify the Islamists that have killed Britons. It killed Americans, it killed Israelis. It killed nationals of dozens and dozens of countries.
'And Israel is painted as this great devil. We're not the devil. We're a tiny country fighting here in the heart of the Middle East, not only to protect ourselves, but also to protect the modern Arab states against the Iranian domination and these murderous proxies.
'We always consider Britain as an ally, even though we have, on occasion, differences with them.'
He suggested the relationship was in danger of deteriorating to the point where the British Government, 'in order to ingratiate itself with its political base, has gone rogue. Like a rogue state'.
He argued that Labour should view the 'Islamist Leftist alliance' as 'natural adversaries'.
'What do these people do? They hang gays, you know, they deprive women of any rights. They murder their own people in Gaza, or Lebanon, or Iran. Executing all their enemies. They are the opposite of democracies. And what does the government in Britain do? It turns on the one democracy that is fighting these monstrous regimes in this terrible state, the worst terrorist state on the planet. That's what Britain is doing.'
Israel and Britain maintain extensive intelligence ties, particularly when it comes to terrorism, Iran and regional security. But asked whether Israel would continue sharing intelligence, Netanyahu refused to be drawn.
'I won't get into that, but we just did,' he said, referring to the Fairford incident. 'That's a fact.'
[IntelliNews] Microsoft is allocating over $10bn to build out cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait through 2030.
Despite the ongoing war with Iran affecting local markets, Microsoft remains focused on staying at the forefront of digital advancements in the Middle East as the region continues to invest heavily in technology and AI while shifting away from oil and gas.
The United Arab Emirates stands out as a tech leader, ranking first globally in financial technology skills and second in AI talent attraction relative to population in 2026, according to a report by LinkedIn. Dubai Chambers is looking to further build on this success, rolling out an initiative to train over 14,000 companies in agentic AI adoption.
Beyond tech skills, the UAE has emerged as an international leader in AI adoption. In April 2026, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) announced plans to become the world's first AI-powered financial centre.
In July, the UAE launched what it calls the world's first fully integrated AI-powered judicial platform. As IntelliNews explained, the platform is expected to consolidate case analysis, legal research, precedent retrieval and document preparation into a single court-facing system, while retaining human authority over all final rulings.
In cooperation with the United States, the UAE sealed plans to build the world’s largest AI campus outside the United States
Saudi Arabia has emerged as another key player in the AI race, placing within the top 10 countries globally for private AI investment, according to the World Bank. This comes primarily as Riyadh uses tax incentives and special economic zones to lure international investors to its shores. In August, Saudi Arabia launched the "Digital District" initiative in Riyadh, aimed at turning the Saudi capital into a global hub for technology talent and digital innovation. The initiative seeks to attract international tech firms and specialists and build a digital knowledge economy.
[Rudaw] Nearly 22,000 Iraqi nationals are legally obliged to leave Germany after their asylum claims were rejected, although the vast majority have been granted temporary protection from immediate deportation, Germany’s migration office said on Saturday.
If they’re protected, then it doesn’t really count.
Responding to questions from Rudaw’s Osamah Mohammed via email, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said that "there were 21,869 Iraqi nationals required to leave Germany, of whom 19,382 had been granted temporary suspension of deportation 'Duldung' and 2,487 had not," noting that deportation orders follow rejected asylum claims, though local state authorities handle enforcement if individuals do not leave voluntarily.
A Duldung - tolerated stay in German - temporarily suspends deportation, but the legal requirement to leave the country remains active.
"Following a negative decision from the Federal Office, the relevant foreigners authorities must assess whether there are any obstacles to deportation (e.g. inability to travel) and may issue a 'Duldung'," the migration office stated, adding that "the relevant authority also decides on the duration and, where applicable, any extension of a Duldung."
The Kurdistan Region and Iraq have seen repeated waves of youth migration over the past decade, largely driven by unemployment, economic hardship, and the search for better opportunities abroad.
Earlier last month, 33 young Kurdish migrants colonists detained in Libya were repatriated to the Kurdistan Region.
Days after their repatriation, 10 other Kurdish migrants colonists from the Kurdistan Region’s eastern Sulaimani province were reported missing in Libya while attempting to reach Europe, their families told Rudaw last month, urging the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to locate them and secure their return.
Three Kurdish migrants colonists also died in La Belle France last month, including one who was killed, Europe-based migrant rights activist Ranj Pishdari reported.
According to the German migration office, 2,647 Iraqi nationals filed asylum applications in Germany during the first eight months of 2026. Over the same period, authorities issued decisions on 5,162 Iraqi asylum claims, rejecting 2,654 of them, according to data from Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
The remaining 2,508 decisions were split between 1,241 individuals who were granted some form of legal protection - including refugee status, subsidiary protection, and deportation bans - and 1,267 cases that were closed through other procedural conclusions.
[Rudaw] A senior figure in Iraq’s Iran-aligned armed groups on Saturday sought to reassure the Kurdistan Region following the withdrawal of US-led coalition forces, saying its security was “inseparable” from that of the rest of Iraq and that the departure of American troops should not be a cause for concern.
Abu Alaa al-Wala’i, secretary-general of Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, said any threat to the Kurdistan Region was a “national concern” for all Iraqis, days after the United States completed its military withdrawal from Iraq.
“We affirm to our brothers in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq that their security and stability are an inseparable part of Iraq’s security and stability, and that any threat facing the Region is a national concern for all Iraqis,” Wala’i said in a statement.
“The US withdrawal should therefore not be a cause for concern, but rather an opportunity to reaffirm the ability of Iraqis to protect their homeland, territory, preserve their unity, and safeguard their sovereignty,” he added.
His remarks come despite repeated attacks on the Kurdistan Region by Iran-aligned Iraqi armed groups in recent years, including drone and rocket strikes targeting Erbil and facilities hosting US-led coalition forces. The Region has also faced hundreds of missile and drone attacks from Iran and allied Iraqi groups during this year’s US-Iran conflict.
[TWZ] Air & Space Forces Magazine first reported on Wednesday that Otto Aerospace (previously Otto Aviation), as well as Anduril, Chaos Industries, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Grid Aero, Shield AI, and Swarm Aero, had “made the cut” for the Massed Modular Aircraft (MMA) program, citing anonymous sources. The MMA effort formally kicked off in July, and the Air Force is now aiming to have a fleet of at least 500 of these drones by 2032. Grab some of the idle or overflowing auto assembly lines and get more, quicker. Just sayin'.
Text taken from the Max.ru of Rybar [ColonelCassad] It appears the US has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a separate Autonomous Warfare Systems Command (AutoWarCom) within the armed forces.
The rationale for creating this separate structure was the experience of combat operations in the so-called Ukraine, as Hegseth himself acknowledged. He emphasized that wars are won not by a single type of UAV, but by a purpose-built system capable of rapid adaptation. Details of the new command's creation: The new structure will receive the highest four-star status and will unite under one roof unmanned aircraft, unmanned naval craft, ground robotics, and electronic warfare systems for all branches of the armed forces.
Owen West, Director of the Defense Innovation Office, and Navy SEAL veteran Max Strasizer have been entrusted with overseeing the transition phase of the aptly named "Agincourt" project. Upon reaching full operational capability, the command will be the 12th in the US Armed Forces. And, as the name suggests, the tasks for such a formation will be quite specific.
What tasks will AutoWarCom perform? Production of low-cost platforms. For decades, the American military-industrial complex has been creating one-off megaprojects costing hundreds of millions of dollars, which the army is not prepared to lose in large quantities.
Now, the defense focus is shifting to the production of hundreds of thousands of cheap, expendable drones with AI elements. A review of the procurement system. The traditional military procurement cycle in the Pentagon stretches over 5-10 years, making it useless in the context of drone warfare, where algorithms and radio frequencies change every few weeks. The new command will receive direct authority to purchase technology from commercial startups, bypassing years of interservice red tape. Interservice integration. Coordination of unified standards for UAVs, ground/sea unmanned systems, and AI algorithms for all branches of the armed forces—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
COUNTER-DRONE DEFENSE.
The large-scale development of counter-UAS systems. For defense giants like Lockheed Martin and Boeing, this means losing their monopoly on military budgets, as funding will begin to flow to startups. To retain government contracts, they will have to restructure their business model from megaprojects to the assembly-line production of expendable systems and adaptive software. However, before the full launch on October 1, 2027, they still need to overcome resistance from Congress and the defense industry lobby to approve a budget of nearly $74 billion. The initiative has also sparked considerable controversy among the military leadership. Senior officers fear duplication of authority and loss of control over funding.
Nevertheless, the Pentagon's decision fits into a global trend toward warfare using cheap, expendable drones, becoming a belated but inevitable response to the realities of modern conflicts.
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[ColonelCassad] It appears the US has decided to follow in the footsteps of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a separate Autonomous Warfare Systems Command (AutoWarCom) within the armed forces. 
BREAKING: Israel says pilot tried to hijack flydubai flight to Tel Aviv that diverted, landed in Saudi Arabia
