Quote:What Made The Mongol Horse Archers SO DESTRUCTIVE? (Battle of Ain Jalut) 1260 AD — The unstoppable Mongol war machine meets its first true defeat. For decades, the Mongol horse archers terrorized Eurasia — lightning-fast, perfectly coordinated, and terrifyingly efficient. Their composite bows could pierce armor at incredible distances, and their mobility shattered traditional armies long before contact. But at the Battle of Ain Jalut, everything changed. In the deserts of the Levant, the Mamluk Sultanate faced the Mongols head-on — and won. This is the story of the most destructive cavalry force in history, and the tactics that made them nearly invincible… until one brilliant commander turned their own speed against them. Battle of Ain Jalut, Mongol Empire, horse archers, Mamluk victory, Genghis Khan tactics, steppe warfare, composite bow, Mongol cavalry, medieval battles, Mongol invasion, Baibars, 13th century warfare, history documentary Battle of Ain Jalut, Mongol Empire, horse archers, Mamluks, Baibars, Genghis Khan, steppe warfare, composite bow, medieval battles, Mongol tactics, history documentary, cavalry warfare, military strategy, Middle East history, epic battles, ancient armies

Quote:October 8, 2025 / Joseph P. Farrell

The reader will have noted that I have placed this story in the "Babylon's Banksters" slot on this website, while the story headline is all about Russia perhaps having operationally tested a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapon in the Ukraine. The story was found and shared by L.G.L.R. (with our gratitude), because it not only raises a lot of "high octane speculative implications and questions" but also because it occasioned one of my even wilder and woollier full-on-gallop-to-the-end-of-the-speculation-twig-and-triple-twisting-somersaulting-dive into the canyon below. (Eat your heart out, Wile E. Coyote. )

Firstly, the story:

Did Russia Just Test a New Weapon in Dniepropetrovsk?

Now there is an interesting statement made in this article, one which prompted L.G.L.R. to send along another article in response to it. The statement is this:

Quote:I have credible information with video evidence, that Russia has just tested their new Plasma Burst EMP weapon, again in Dnipro in the night from October 1st to 2nd. These videos are all random dash cam captures and one fixed-webcam monitoring Dnipro. So they are genuine videos. I believe the blackout was caused by the EMP disrupting electric infrastructure. However it is unclear if other missiles and drones were also involved in damaging infrastructure. Upon a high energy pulse within our atmosphere, such force tends to tear Nitrogen and Oxygen Molecules apart. Then, upon recombining to N2 and O2 Molecules (Molecular Recombination), they emit radiation in the blue to ultra violet spectrum. That’s exactly why we perceive lightning as blueish.

There are no reliable publications about a working concept of Plasma Burst EMP. However, we know that the Soviets have been researching Plasma since more than 80 years. Being able to maneuver a Mach10 or 12 Hypersonic Vessel is based upon superior Russian knowledge about Plasma. At such speeds, the Plasma around the vessel is a radio communication barrier. Just like the Space Shuttle when re-entering the atmosphere, there is a 5 Minute radio silence.

We also know that the Russians were conducting intensive research to create such nuclear free EMP on a large scale energy level. On the 2nd Oct. they have given us proof of evidence once again in Dnipro. (Emphasis added)

There you have it: in conventional wisdom, the effects of an electromagnetic pulse can only be achieved through the detonation of a nuclear bomb, even though the effects of electromagnetic pulse can occur in nature, as with a massive solar flare.  But could the effect be artificially engineered and generated without the necessity of blowing up an atom- or hydrogen-bomb?

Here's where the second article comes in:

How does a Plasma Burst EMP work ? what's the minimum charge acceleration needed ? Can the burst be shaped like microwave beams with high directionality ?

The answer to those questions is given in the very opening paragraphs:

Quote:How a Plasma Burst EMP Works

A Plasma Burst EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) is a directed-energy effect generated by creating a localized plasma explosion in the atmosphere using ultra-short, high-intensity laser pulses (typically femtosecond-duration pulses from terawatt-class lasers). This is distinct from nuclear EMPs (which rely on gamma-ray ionization) or traditional non-nuclear EMPs (like explosively pumped flux compression generators). The plasma burst acts as a transient antenna, rapidly accelerating charged particles (primarily electrons) and producing a broadband electromagnetic pulse that can disrupt or damage electronics, sensors, and communications systems.

Mechanism

1. Laser Filamentation and Plasma Formation:
   
   • A high-peak-power laser pulse (e.g., 1-800 mJ energy per pulse, wavelengths in the near-infrared like 800 nm) is fired into the air.
     
   • Due to the Kerr nonlinear optical effect, the laser beam self-focuses, increasing its intensity until it exceeds the threshold for multiphoton ionization of air molecules (N₂ and O₂).
     
   • This ionization creates a cascade of free electrons and ions, forming a thin plasma filament (diameter ~100-200 μm) that propagates over kilometers without diffracting significantly.
     

Can this effect be directed and controlled? Answer: theoretically, yes, and the technique is to use lasers to create the channel through which the plasma burst travels; think of it as "directed lightning" (grounding all those ancient depictions of the gods hurling [and thus directing] thunderbolts in science itself):

Quote:Can the Burst Be Shaped Like Microwave Beams with High Directionality?

Yes, Plasma Burst EMPs can achieve high directionality, often resembling focused microwave or THz beams, due to the underlying laser delivery and plasma physics:

• Inherent Directionality: The EMP radiates primarily forward in a narrow cone (~10-30° half-angle) along the laser axis, as the plasma burst is localized and the accelerating electrons move coherently in that direction. This is more directional than omnidirectional nuclear EMPs.
  
• Beam Shaping Techniques:
  
  • Laser Control: Use spatial light modulators (SLMs), deformable mirrors, and gratings to precondition the beam—adjusting divergence, spectral phase, and polarization—to precisely control filament length and collapse point (e.g., ±1 m accuracy over 100 m range).
    
  • Pointing/Tracking: Gimbal-mounted optics or acousto-optic deflectors enable real-time targeting, maintaining <1 mrad beam wander.
    
  • Microwave-Like Focusing: By chirping the laser pulse (varying frequency) or using multiple filaments in an array, the EMP can be shaped into tighter beams (e.g., 5-10° divergence) or scanned like a phased-array radar. THz components behave like microwaves, allowing "painting" a target without collateral spread.
    

Could the Russians be deploying and testing such a technique operationally? Certainly. Indeed, one of the people this author has met personally over the years was a plasma physicist (whose name I shall not divulge but who would be readily recognizable to many readers) who was involved in very similar laser-directed "plasma channel" research.

Ok, so where's the high octane running-nose-dive of speculation?

Most readers will recall that for years I've been warning about the dangers of digital "currency" and its susceptibility to electromagnetic pulse. One day you could be a veritable "King Midas" with a pile of money stored in electronic blips, and the next day all of that, including all records of it, could be potentially wiped out by an electromagnetic pulse. It would by like storing all of your money in a magnetic drive memory, and then storing the memory drive next to a powerful magnet: woops: memory wiped, money gone. So sorry, next customer please. Indeed, I've been so preoccupied with this potential danger that I have often commented on and even blogged about why so many nations around the world are going to the expense and cost of refurbishing steam railroad locomotives to the extent that, like the Union Pacific Railroad in the USA, entire locomotives works have been created to restore and maintain the monsters, thus restoring a minimal manufacturing capability to actually make them. They then steam around the country - like the Union Pacific's restored "Big Boy" and "Challenger" articulated 4-8-8-4 and 4-6-6-4 locomotives - pulling sight-seeing passenger cars, and occasionally (to make the whole enterprise profitable), pulling long freight trains.  Why go to all the expense to restore such machines, to train the crews to run and maintain them, and to create the infrastructure also needed to do so? After all, steam locomotives require water towers, cleaning crews, and so on, dotted around the landscape.

The answer is simple: a steam locomotive is entirely an analogue machine. It will still run, and pull freight, long after an electromagnetic pulse has disabled a typical diesel-electric locomotive, or your car, or your local bank's electronic ledgers, and so on. It's an ironic thought: that the technology impervious to "digital progress" is an older analogue technology. Indeed, the restoration of steam locomotives suggests also some sort of inside knowledge and planning against the electromagnetic pulse scenario. We'll get back to that in a minute. But note,  the same holds true of our monetary and fiscal technologies: physical media of exchange, like coins or bits of paper, are relatively impervious to digital interdictions; blips on a computer screen are not.

And that brings me to advance my wildest scenario yet, in this regard, and it's one that should have occurred to me long ago, because it seems so obvious. For many years, since the financial crisis of 2008, I've been warning about all the "bad paper" sloshing around in the financial system, those credit default swaps and derivatives and "mortgage backed securities" and tranches of tranches and bundles of bundles that have ballooned the derivatives to orders of magnitude more money than the worth of the entire gross domestic product of the entire planet. How does one get rid of that enormous drag effect on the economy and finances of the world?

One method, the scenario I've been suggesting, is to "rebalance" those books with the acquisition of enough hard assets to do it: enter all those multi-quadrillion-dollar asteroids out there, just waiting to be mined.  Think of it as the "Spanish galleon solution" to all that Venetian "cooking of the books through an overly-financialized economy." Failing that, I've also suggested that one could simply claim to have gone out there and gained access to all those hard assets. Such a solution would be a very risky, and very short term, solution, but the game might be played.


But there's another solution, one suggested by the possibility of a non-nuclear electro-magnetic pulse technology. For years we've been hearing about "the great reset", which, upon examination, appears to be nothing more than "the great accounting trick"; it's not really a reset at all, at least, not in the sense of the ancient Sumerian-Babylonian practice of the jubilee(see my book Babylon's Banksters), and the breaking of the tablets ceremony that cancelled all debt because the tablets, the records, recording that debt were broken and the memory of it wiped out.  The books were literally rebalanced by resetting all of them to zero, and beginning the game all over again.

So perhaps, behind all the current nuclear war scare, the agenda once again is really financial, and the debt and bad paper trap is so immense and intractable that the "powers that be" have decided that they need a real "great reset", one that will "break the tablets" and wipe out the records, so that the whole thing can begin again. And electromagnetic pulses, whether nuclear or non-nuclear, might be just the hammer needed to break those tablets.

See you on the flip side...

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By removing the cockpit, seats and crew stations, the Sikorsky S-70UAS™ U-Hawk™ helicopter becomes the first fully autonomous Black Hawk helicopter. Photo courtesy, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company.
Washington, Oct. 13, 2025 — From concept to reality in 10 months, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), has transformed a UH-60L Black Hawk® helicopter into the S-70UAS™ U-Hawk™, a versatile autonomous unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that has 25% more cargo space than a typical Black Hawk. Sikorsky replaced the cockpit section with actuated clamshell doors and ramp, and swapped conventional flight controls with a third-generation, low-cost, fly-by-wire system integrated with MATRIX™ autonomy technology.
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The S-70UAS U-Hawk aircraft on display at this week’s Association of the United States Army exposition shows a larger cabin space to:

• Accept longer cargo, such as missiles,
  
• Drive on/off an uncrewed ground vehicle,
  
• Roll-on/off supplies,
  
• Launch swarms of reconnaissance or strike drones, and
  
• Carry internal fuel tanks for increased range or extended time on station.
  

“Sikorsky is innovating a 21st century solution by converting UH‑60L Black Hawks into a fully autonomous utility platform,” said Rich Benton, Sikorsky vice president and general manager. “We developed this prototype from concept to reality in under a year, and the modifications made to transform this crewed Black Hawk into a multi-mission payload UAS can be replicated at scale quickly and affordably. The U-Hawk continues the Black Hawk legacy of being the world’s premier utility aircraft and opens the door to new capabilities as a UAS.”
Redesign and structural modification of the UH-60L aircraft into its uncrewed U-Hawk configuration is led by rapid prototyping group Sikorsky Innovations. First flight is expected in 2026.
U-Hawk-enabled missions
By eliminating the cockpit and internal components, the U-Hawk has 25% more cargo space than the UH-60L Black Hawk.
Forward loading and additional useable cabin space of the U-Hawk aircraft now offers the flexibility to accommodate oversized loads up to the same maximum gross weight.

• Air-ground team — Drive on/off an uncrewed ground vehicle, such as the HDT Hunter Wolf 6x6 UGV.
  
• Cargo — Transport up to four Joint Modular Intermodal Containers (vs. two today).
  
• Missile transport — Carry a HIMARS pod of six rockets, or two Naval Strike Missiles.
  
• Launched effects — Deploy launched effects carrying sensors/munitions from quivers secured to the cabin.
  
• Endurance — Self-deploy over 1600nm or loiter for up to 14 hours without refueling. 
  

Like a UH-60L aircraft, a U-Hawk variant retains the ability to load cargo from the side door, and externally lift 9,000 pounds (4,080 kg) using its cargo hook.
Operators – not pilots – fly U-Hawks
A tablet gives an operator full command of the U-Hawk aircraft from start-up to shut down.
At the touch of a button, the two clamshell doors open and a ramp lowers to allow easy cargo loading or drive-on capability. To prepare for flight, the automated sequence is reversed.
Once loaded, an operator inputs mission goals via the tablet. The MATRIX autonomy system automatically generates a flight plan, relying on cameras, sensors and algorithms to help navigate the U-Hawk aircraft safely to its destination.
Affordable utility UAS
By removing the cockpit, all seats and crew stations from the aircraft, the U-Hawk helicopter becomes the first fully autonomous Black Hawk utility helicopter.
“The U‑Hawk offers a cost‑effective utility UAS by leveraging commonality with the existing UH‑60 fleet, and its uncrewed nature reduces both operating and maintenance costs,” said Igor Cherepinsky, Sikorsky Innovations director. “We focused on efficiencies in the retrofit by designing and manufacturing vehicle management computers, actuation components and airframe modifications. We will incorporate those efficiencies into future modifications and manufacturing for our family of UAS products.”
For more information, visit https://lockheedmartin.com/uhawk.
About Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin is a global defense technology company driving innovation and advancing scientific discovery. Our all-domain mission solutions and 21st Century Security® vision accelerate the delivery of transformative technologies to ensure those we serve always stay ahead of ready. More information at Lockheedmartin.com.

Quote:Lockheed Martin Sikorsky Introduces Nomad™ Family of Long-Endurance, Runway-Independent Drones

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The Nomad family of VTOL drones can be scaled in size for a variety of sea and land-based missions. Rendering courtesy, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company.
STRATFORD, Conn., Oct. 6, 2025 – Less than a year after proving the flight efficiency and reliability of a novel rotor blown wing vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Uncrewed Aerial System (UAS), Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT) is unveiling its Nomad™ future family of aircraft.  
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The twin proprotor design combines the versatility of a helicopter with the speed and range of a fixed-wing airplane. A Nomad aircraft can take off, hover, and land vertically, plus cruise on the wing for extended periods. Nomads are operated via Sikorsky’s MATRIX™ autonomy technology and predominantly use hybrid-electric propulsion, while larger variants will feature a conventional drivetrain.
“We use the term ‘family’ to point to a key attribute of the design; its ability to be scaled in size from a small Group 3 UAS to the footprint equivalent of a Black Hawk helicopter,” said Rich Benton, Sikorsky vice president and general manager. “The resulting Nomad family of drones will be adaptable, go-anywhere, runway independent aircraft capable of land and sea-based missions across defense, national security, forestry and civilian organizations. Nomads are a force multiplier, complementing the missions of aircraft such as the Black Hawk to retain the strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific and across broader regions.”
Sikorsky announced in March 2025 the successful extended flight test of its 10.3-ft wingspan prototype Nomad 50 aircraft. Today, Sikorsky is building its Nomad 100 aircraft. This is a Group 3, 18-ft wingspan variant with first flight expected in the coming months. 
Nomad VTOL UAS 

• Nomad UAS are designed for reconnaissance, light attack, contested logistics and more. 
  

• The Nomad family can be scaled from a Group 3 UAS (56 pounds to 1,320 pounds) to Group 4/5 (1,320 pounds and up). The Nomad family is powered by fuel-efficient hybrid-electric drivetrains, with larger variants featuring a conventional drivetrain. 
  

• MATRIX technology, developed by Sikorsky Innovations and DARPA, is an open system, which allows seamless integration with rotary and fixed-wing aircraft. MATRIX has already been demonstrated across a range of applications, including aerial firefighting, logistics resupply, and advanced aerial mobility. 
  

“Nomad represents new breakthroughs for Sikorsky and the next generation of autonomous, long-endurance drones,” said Dan Shidler, director of Advanced Programs. “We are acting on feedback from the Pentagon, adopting a rapid approach and creating a family of drones that can take off and land virtually anywhere and execute the mission – all autonomously and in the hands of Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen.”

Full Title: "Kayla Pollock, the Ontario woman paralyzed after her COVID-19 booster shot, files a $45 million lawsuit against Moderna"

Note: I put this Substack report here rather than the health section because it is about a vaccine for an engineered virus. Also, this woman is suing Moderna, the vaccine maker, and is more about that than the extreme side effects for such safe and effective products given emergency use status and legal protection.

Quote:On February 22, 2024, a lawsuit seeking $45 million in damages was filed on behalf of Kayla against Moderna. The claim seeks physical, emotional, and psychological damages, loss of past and future income, future cost of care, pain and suffering, as well as aggravated and punitive damages.

Kayla is a 37-year-old Ontario woman and mother whose life has become a living hell after a Moderna booster shot left her paralyzed. Her medical records confirm a link between her paralysis and the Moderna booster shot.

They say "We need to get ICE off our streets.".

I agree - as soon as they (ICE, et al) get the invaders off our streets.

But, They (progressives/socialists/communists/anarchists/globalists)
 brought the invaders in
 to vote with them
 and protest with them
 and riot, loot, kill and cause general chaos and mayhem
 with & for them
 (to add some gunk to the works);
Because they know
 their ideas/dreams are too radical
 to gain a majority
 if going toe to toe with
 the more popular sensibilities
 that pervade the voting populace.
...
And, with the maim stream news to tow Their line/s
 They easily sway the easily swayed
 and what would have been a 58% majority
 shrivels to a 52% (+/-) majority
 making the distinctions no longer
 so visible.
...
We need ICE off our streets
 when the job is done.
Else, Their entire scheme will succeed.

Radical invasion requires radical response.

Only time will tell if this plan holds

Some real history on display.. 100s of hours cleaning and polishing these aircraft

I won't spoil the boys thunder so here it is from them.

Quote:New rocket fuel compound packs 150% more energy

Date: September 30, 2025 Source: University at Albany, SUNY Summary: A new boron-rich compound, manganese diboride, delivers much higher energy density than current solid-rocket materials while remaining stable until intentionally ignited. Its power comes from an unusual, strained atomic structure formed during ultra-hot synthesis, with promising uses beyond propulsion.

Quote: The Yeung Lab's arc melter synthesizing manganese diboride. Credit: Brian Busher

University at Albany chemists have created a new high-energy compound that could revolutionize rocket fuel and make space flights more efficient. Upon ignition, the compound releases more energy relative to its weight and volume compared to current fuels. In a rocket, this would mean less fuel required to power the same flight duration or payload and more room for mission-critical supplies. Their study was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
"In rocket ships, space is at a premium," said Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Yeung, whose lab led the work. "Every inch must be packed efficiently, and everything onboard needs to be as light as possible. Creating more efficient fuel using our new compound would mean less space is needed for fuel storage, freeing up room for equipment, including instruments used for research. On the return voyage, this could mean more space is available to bring samples home."
The newly synthesized compound, manganese diboride (MnB2), is over 20% more energetic by weight and about 150% more energetic by volume compared to the aluminum currently used in solid rocket boosters. Despite being highly energetic, it is also very safe and will only combust when it meets an ignition agent like kerosene.
The underlying boron-based structure is also versatile; related research in the Yeung lab has demonstrated its potential to help build more durable catalytic converters for cars and serve as a catalyst for breaking down plastics.
It Takes Heat to Make Heat
Manganese diboride belongs to a class of chemical compounds thought to have unusual properties, yet exploring what exactly these properties entail has been limited by an inability to actually produce the compound.
"Diborides first started getting attention in the 1960s," said UAlbany PhD student Joseph Doane, who works with Yeung. "Since these initial looks, new technologies are allowing us to actually synthesize chemical compounds that were once only hypothesized to exist.

"Knowing what we do about the elements on the periodic table, we suspected that manganese diboride would be structurally asymmetrical and unstable -- factors which together would make it highly energetic -- but until recently, we couldn't test it because it couldn't be made. Successfully synthesizing pure manganese diboride is an exciting achievement in and of itself. And now, we can test it experimentally and discover new ways to put it to use."
Synthesizing manganese diboride requires extreme heat generated using a tool called an "arc melter." The first step involves pressing manganese and boron powders together into a pellet, which is placed in a small, reinforced glass chamber. The arc melter trains a narrow electrical current on the pellet, heating it to a scorching 3,000°C (over 5,000°F). The molten material is then rapidly cooled to lock the structure in place. At the atomic level, this process forces a central manganese atom to bond to too many other atoms, making for an overly crowded structure packed tight like a coiled spring.
3...2...1... Deformation!
When exploring new chemical compounds, being able to physically produce the compound is critical. You also need to be able to define its molecular structure, in order to better understand why it behaves the way it does.
UAlbany PhD student Gregory John, who works with computational chemist Alan Chen, built computer models to visualize manganese diboride's molecular structure. These models revealed something critical: a subtle skew, known as "deformation," which gives the compound its high potential energy.
"Our model of the manganese diboride compound looks like a cross section of an ice cream sandwich, where the outer cookies are made of a lattice structure comprised of interlocking hexagons," said John. "When you look closely, you can see that the hexagons aren't perfectly symmetrical; they're all a little skewed. This is what we call 'deformation.' By measuring the degree of deformation, we can use that measure as a proxy to determine the amount of energy stored in the material. That skew is where the energy is stored."
Here's another way to picture it.

"Imagine a flat trampoline; there's no energy there when it's flat," said Yeung. "If I put a gigantic weight in the center of the trampoline, it will stretch. That stretch represents energy being stored by the trampoline, which it will release when the object is removed. When our compound ignites, it's like removing the weight from the trampoline and the energy is released."
New Materials Need New Compounds
"There's this consensus among chemists that boron-based compounds should have unusual properties that make them behave unlike any other existing compounds," said Associate Professor of Chemistry Alan Chen. "There's an ongoing quest to figure out what those properties and behaviors are. This sort of pursuit is at the heart of materials chemistry, where creating harder, stronger more extreme materials requires forging brand-new chemicals. This is what the Yeung lab is doing -- with findings that could improve rocket fuel, catalytic converters and even processes for recycling plastics.
"This study is also a great example of the scientific process, where researchers pursue interesting chemical properties even when they're not certain what specific applications might emerge. Sometimes, present case included, the results are serendipitous."
Yeung's interest in boron compounds started when he was a grad student at the University of California, Los Angeles. His project was aiming to discover compounds harder than diamond.
"I distinctly remember the first time I made a compound related to manganese diboride," Yeung said. "There I was, holding this new material that was supposed to be super hard. Instead, it started to get hot and changed into a pretty orange color. I thought, 'Why is it orange? Why is it glowing? It shouldn't be glowing!' That's when I realized how energetic boron compounds can be. I put a pin in it to explore in the future, and that's exactly what we are working on now."