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// IN TODAY’S EDITION
RUS helo fires cruise missile
Where Haiti’s $16B went
Kyiv’s worst water outage
Protesters storm Microsoft site
$11.4M in Nvidia gear vanishes
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A screenshot from a Russian Defense Ministry video shows what appears to be a Banderol cruise missile mounted on an underwing pylon of a Mi-28NM attack helicopter. (Credit: Russian Defense Ministry)
Video Shows Russian Mi-28 Attack Helicopter Firing a Low-Cost Cruise Missile
Russia's Defense Ministry released video of a Mi-28NM attack helicopter firing a small, low-cost cruise missile, likely the Banderol or the similar Dan-T, which Ukrainian intelligence says can fly up to about 310 miles.
Until now the helicopter's longest-range weapon reached just over nine miles, so the missile gives a fleet that has lost at least 21 aircraft since 2022 a way to strike from far outside Ukrainian air defenses. READ ›
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// VECTOR REPORT
Following the Money to Haiti
By Dino Garner, CRUCIBEL Journal
A SOFX reader who served in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake asked us what happened to the more than $16 billion raised for recovery, and whether it connects to the crisis there today. We took the question to senior contributor Dino Garner, whose latest Vector report finds that most of it never reached the Haitian state.
By his count, only about a tenth of what public donors paid out by 2012 went through Haitian government systems, and less than 1% of humanitarian money did, because donors routed it around a government they did not trust. The one pool Haiti controlled itself, about $2 billion in PetroCaribe oil money, was later found by Haiti’s own auditors to have been managed fraudulently and often illegally.
He warns the 2026 security push is repeating the pattern, with the UN-backed force about a fifth funded and Salvadoran troops arriving without a status-of-forces agreement. His fix is to send the next dollar through Haiti’s customs and treasury under foreign co-signature controls, as Liberia did in 2005.
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The Air Force plans more than 6,000 aircraft operations a year from four airfields in the Northern Mariana Islands, including World War II fields on Tinian. Spreading aircraft across small bases is meant to keep a Chinese missile strike on any one from halting operations. Read ›
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Six pallets of Nvidia hardware worth $11.4 million vanished on the way from Oakland to Texas, after a truck posing as a food transport company picked them up in late August. Investigators lost the truck in San Bernardino County, and no arrests have been made. Read ›
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The Space Force hired Viasat to build an operations center for its Space Data Network, a backbone meant to link satellites and sensors for Golden Dome missile defense. The contract is worth up to $450 million, with a first $115 million order for the center. Read ›
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The Army unveiled MALET, a clip-on kit that lets drones drop standard mortar rounds, adding fins and a fuze to 60mm and 81mm rounds. Removing it returns a round to normal use, and the Army plans to send kits to exercises this fall. Read ›
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