MAROKO133 Hot ai: World-leading, proven uncrewed combat aircraft to bolster German forces’

📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: World-leading, proven uncrewed combat aircraft to bolster Germ

German defense giant Rheinmetall and aerospace leader Boeing announced a strategic partnership to offer the advanced MQ-28 Ghost Bat to Germany.

This partnership marks a significant step toward modernizing the German Air Force and integrating next-generation autonomous systems into its defense framework.

The partnership is aligned with Germany’s plan to introduce Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) into service by 2029. These aircraft are designed to operate alongside manned fighter jets, enhancing operational flexibility and combat effectiveness. MQ-28 Ghost Bat is being positioned as a mature and ready solution for the Bundeswehr’s requirements.

Cutting-edge autonomous system

The initiative also reflects Germany’s broader effort to increase its “combat mass”—the ability to deploy more assets in contested environments—especially as older aircraft like the Tornado approach retirement.

Originally developed in Australia, the MQ-28 Ghost Bat is a cutting-edge autonomous drone designed to work in tandem with piloted aircraft. It has already completed over 150 test flights, demonstrating its maturity and operational readiness.

The aircraft functions as a “loyal wingman,” capable of performing a wide range of missions, including intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare, strike operations, and forward sensing in high-risk environments.

Autonomous systems reduce risk to human pilots

Its autonomous systems reduce risk to human pilots while increasing mission efficiency.

“With Boeing Defence Australia as a partner, we are laying the groundwork to optimally tailor the MQ-28 to the Bundeswehr’s requirements,” said Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall AG.

“As a system integrator, we ensure that integration, operation, and further development come from a single source while simultaneously strengthening industrial value creation in the form of an industrial hub in Germany and Europe. We see revenue potential for Rheinmetall in the range of three-digit millions of euros.”  

The strategic partnership ensures a high level of national and sovereign value creation and supply security in Germany. 

“With Boeing Defence Australia as a partner, we are laying the groundwork to optimally tailor the MQ-28 to the Bundeswehr’s requirements,” said Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall AG.

“As a system integrator, we ensure that integration, operation, and further development come from a single source while simultaneously strengthening industrial value creation in the form of an industrial hub in Germany and Europe. We see revenue potential for Rheinmetall in the range of three-digit millions of euros.”  

System architecture allows for continuous upgrades

The MQ-28 Ghost Bat’s open, modular system architecture allows for continuous upgrades and rapid capability growth. Rheinmetall will support a dedicated digital environment in country, where engineers from both Germany and Australia contribute, test and validate new software and hardware innovations. 

“This is not just a partnership between our companies but between two great countries, Germany and Australia, who share a similar strategy for integrating collaborative combat aircraft into their air forces,” said Dr. Brendan Nelson, president of Boeing Global.

“Our partnership will see Germany’s industrial base leverage years of Australian innovation and investment to field and evolve MQ-28 for the Bundeswehr.”

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: A New Study Found Something Disturbing About the Way Del

App based delivery drivers have a tough gig. They navigate aggressive drivers, hostile restaurant workers, and impatient customers while their paycheck hangs in the balance. Manage it all perfectly, and their algorithmic overlord lets them move on to the next delivery. Let a car accident, construction detour, or act of fate throw off the timeline, and the app responds with consequences ranging from reduced ratings to outright deactivation — a digital pink slip cutting them off from, in many cases, their only source of income.

As it turns out, that kind of pressure has real consequences for the decisions delivery drivers make on the road. A new study slated for publication in the journal Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives next month took a look at why delivery drivers speed — and the answer seems to have less to do with reckless habits of individual workers, and more to do with the system those workers are trapped inside.

To conduct the study, researchers combed through the subreddits associated with the top three delivery app companies, DoorDash, GrubHub, and UberEats, to collect thousands of comments mentioning or referring to the choice to speed, and sorting each comment based on the factors involved.

The reason drivers put the pedal down — or didn’t — fell into two broad categories: work stuff, and everything else. On the work side, the main motivation to speed was the on-time delivery rate. Miss enough of them, and drivers face deactivation. Personal attitudes like a general belief that speeding is no big deal also showed up, but not as often. Overall, job factors were a much bigger deal than individual attitudes.

“I don’t pay a lot of attention to my arrival time history, but it kind of bothers me that to be on time for about 75 percent of my trips, I’d have to exceed the speed limit rather a little bit,” one of the drivers commented.

Intriguingly, the apps that track on-time rates also monitor how fast drivers are going, a significant factor among those who decided not to speed. Non-speeding drivers also cited checks of their road safety records by law enforcement as a major factor, indicative of the overlapping layers of surveillance gig delivery drivers have to navigate to earn a living.

As the researchers note, many of the factors identified in the study are unique to gig workers, like deactivation risk, on-time delivery, and financial pressure. Luckily, the study identifies a number of ways app companies can reduce unsafe driving.

For example, companies could relax on-time delivery metrics, allowing drivers to feel less pressure to complete each delivery at lightning speed. App companies could also be more transparent about how they monitor drivers, and switch from a penalty-based system to an incentive-based one.

A spokesperson for one of the companies mentioned in the study, GrubHub, told us they have a “zero-tolerance policy for unsafe driving — an expectation we clearly communicate to all our couriers.”

On the topic of on-time delivery metrics, the spokesperson said that “delivery ETAs are calculated using a number of factors, including route, distance, and traffic conditions. They assume adherence to the rules of the road, allowing delivery partners to get from the restaurant to the customer safely.”

Overall, nobody wants unsafe drivers on the road. But until app companies get serious about treating their drivers like workers rather than independent contractors, the structural issues pushing drivers to make the roads less safe will remain in place.

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🔗 Sumber: futurism.com