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Neural Net: The Future of Cooperative Air Combat Networking

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By the early 2030s, the battlespace had become a complex web of stealth aircraft, advanced electronic warfare systems, and multi-domain sensor fusion. Traditional cooperative radar techniques, while revolutionary in the early 2000s, were increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated jamming, signal interception, and pattern exploitation. The Swedish Air Force’s response to these emerging threats was Radar-Samverkan 2.0, codenamed “Neural Net” — a distributed, AI-driven, multi-platform combat network designed to remove single points of failure and extend the survivability of both manned and unmanned assets. Built around the Gripen E Block IV, Saab’s GlobalEye AEW&C, and MQ-28 Ghost Bat drones, Neural Net represented not just an upgrade, but a complete rethinking of how air forces cooperated in high-threat environments. 1. Scramble & Takeoff A. F 21 Wing, Luleå — Swedish/NATO Perspective Year 2032. Snow whipped across the hardened shelters as the alert horn blared. Lieuten...

The Vel Beneath the Moonlight – A Revelation

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In a world that constantly seeks rational explanations, the mystical often survives in shadows—whispered, half-believed, and sometimes encountered by those brave or foolish enough to follow the whispers. Among the countless spiritual legends that permeate Indian tradition, one tale emerges not from mythological epics, but from rural living memory. It is the legend of a mysterious midnight ritual during Vaikasi Visakam, observed not with grandeur but with secrecy, around an ancient Murugan temple where no idol is worshipped—only the Vel, his divine spear. 1. The Rumour in the Dust Arun Menon wasn’t a man given to faith. A field documentarian working for a heritage magazine in Bengaluru, he was more at home among forgotten ruins and fractured inscriptions than in temple rituals. But while covering a temple restoration near Madurai, a grizzled old sculptor whispered to him, half in jest and half in warning, about a myth that turned real once a year in the village of Velkundram...