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China intends to turn "elderly" jets into combat drones

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 04/09/2023 - 12:19 in Military, UAV - UAV

China may have found a new use for the old fighters: turning them into combat drones. Some experts fear that masses of these robotic jets could saturate Taiwan's air defense as a prelude to a Chinese invasion.

The J-7 (NATO codename: "Fishcan") is the Chinese copy of the Soviet MiG-21 from the 1960s. Despite being originally a mid-Cold War project, more than 2,400 J-7s were produced in 54 variants until 2013 (Pakistan and Iran still fly in the export version of the F-7). The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has almost 300 J-7s, according to an annual report on military capabilities and defense economics from the International Institute of Strategic Studies.

But with China receiving new fourth and fifth generation fighters - such as the Su-30 designed by Russia, in addition to the J-16 and J-20 poaching - the third generation J-7 has already passed its peak. China may completely retire the aircraft in 2023, according to the state-sponsored Chinese newspaper Global Times.

In the US, obsolete combat aircraft end up deactivated in the cemetery or converted into target drones, as happened with the F-4 and F-16 fighters. But the Global Times suggested a different destination for the J-7: the aircraft "could be modified to become drones and play new roles in modern warfare".

Chinese J-6 jet had already been considered to become a combat drone.

This "new role" may well convert the J-7 into an unmanned aerial combat vehicle (UCAV). This is not the first time that a drone jet plot has appeared; there has been previous speculation that China could convert the J-6 - the Chinese copy of the Soviet MiG-19 fighter from the 1950s - into a UVA.

But observers were quick to note that in 2021, four J-7s joined a group of younger J-16 fighters during exercises near Taiwanese airspace, an unusual step for an aged aircraft that even Taiwanese consider a "jet grandfather". Some wondered if these J-7s were converted into drones, although no evidence has been disclosed.

Why convert a manned fighter into an unmanned combat drone? The most obvious reason would be not to waste expensive jets. But a bigger reason may be the performance. Specific attack drones, such as the U.S. MQ-9 Reaper or the Turkish TB2 Bayraktar, have a top speed of about 130 to 300 miles per hour and tend to be clumsy, propeller-powered flying machines. A J-7 that has turned into a drone can fly almost Mach 2, and the manned fighters are designed for agile and high-speed maneuvers. Combat jets can also carry a wide variety of ammunition, including air-to-air, air-ground and anti-ship missiles, as well as bombs.

“The cost of converting legacy aircraft into UCAVs is relatively low, but they retain many of their manned variant characteristics,” concluded a 2022 study by the Mitchell Institute, a U.S.-based think tank, on the Chinese threat of UCAV to Taiwan. "The converted fuselages have the same performance, maneuverability and load capacity as the original platforms."

Old J-6, J-7 and J-8 fighters, as well as Q-5 attack planes, could be converted into UCAVs and then "used as a means to overload Taiwan's air defense systems, to invade an aircraft carrier or perform basic counterattack operations," warned the Mitchell Institute. For example, China could dispatch hundreds of these UCAVs as a prelude to an invasion of Taiwan, with drones depleting the supply of Taiwan's anti-aircraft missiles before manned attack aircraft entered the scene.

“Like cicadas, which can remain underground for long periods of time, PLAAF can choose to hide a large number of these UCAVs in underground shelters and make them emerge surreptitiously en masse for an attack on Taiwan,” according to the study.

Ironically, the J-7 and other Chinese copies of Soviet Cold War-era aircraft can be more successful as drones than with a pilot in the cockpit. The Global Times described the J-7 as "the first supersonic fighter developed by China that can reach Mach 2". In fact, the J-7 was based on the designs and components of the MiG-21 delivered by the Soviets in 1961. When China and the Soviet Union separated in the early 1960s by the leadership of the communist bloc, Moscow stopped deliveries and China reverse engineered the project.

The J-7 did not have an excellent reputation, according to author Andreas Rupprecht in his book Dragon's Wings. Problems included manufacturing defects, low reliability, a faulty ejection seat and a cockpit sized to fit Russian pilots - instead of Chinese.

Recycling old jets on drones seems economical. But the concept can have problems. Supersonic drones are in their infancy, especially supersonic UCAVs. Can a robot jet fighter perform high-speed combat maneuvers while being piloted by a pilot with limited situational awareness on a ground station, rather than in the cockpit?

And although China can obtain ample spare parts by cannibalizing some of these UCAVs, combat jets tend to require a lot of maintenance, especially a problem-prone project such as the J-7. It can be more economical just to build a lot of cheap drones.

Source: Popular Mechanics

Tags: Military AviationJ-7PLAAF - China Air ForceUCAV

Fernando Valduga

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Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, he has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Dayton Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work throughout the world of aviation.

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President’s Office: Russia shells maternity hospital in Kherson. “They shelled a place where two children were born today. Before the attack, doctors managed to complete a caesarean section. There are five women after childbirth at the institution,” he said, adding that “miraculously” there were no casualties.

National Bank: Ukraine’s GDP to fall by one third in 2022; Russian attacks on energy system imperil economy. Russian attacks on Ukraine’s critical infrastructure also reduce the demand for banking services and lead to additional credit losses, according to the deputy head of the National Bank.

Forbes: Ukraine’s wealthiest 20 lose over $20 billion due to Russia’s full-scale invasion. Russia’s all-out invasion slashed the net worth of Ukraine’s wealthiest, destroying plants and factories and shrinking the country’s economy by a third.

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Russia has damaged more than 700 critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine since Feb. 24. First Deputy Interior Minister Yevhen Yenin said on Dec. 27 that at least 702 critical infrastructure facilities in Ukraine have been hit since the start of the full-scale invasion. Those facilities include gas pipelines, electrical substations and bridges. Russian attacks have destroyed more than 35,000 objects in Ukraine, Yenin said.

Russian-controlled church may lose control of part of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra on Jan. 1. Ukraine’s Culture Ministry will recommend terminating the Russian-backed church's lease on part of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine's most important Orthodox monastery, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on Dec. 27.

The human cost of Russia’s war

UN: At least 6,884 civilians killed by Russia's war against Ukraine. According to the United Nations human rights agency, Russia's war against Ukraine has killed at least 6,884 civilians and injured at least 10,947 from Feb. 24 through Dec. 26. Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with wide area effects, including shelling from heavy artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles and air strikes.

Reintegration Ministry: Ukraine retrieves bodies of 42 fallen soldiers. In total, the bodies of 869 Ukrainian soldiers have been returned since May.

Russian attacks across 8 Ukrainian oblasts injure 3 people over past day. Russian strikes on Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk oblasts wounded three people over the past day, according to local authorities.

International response

Germany allocates 35 million euros to support children in Ukraine. Germany has contributed 35 million euros ($37.3 million) to the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) in Ukraine to support Ukrainian children during Russia’s war, Germany’s embassy to Ukraine said.

Health ministry: Kazakhstani businesses donate 41 generators to Ukrainian hospitals. Kazakhstani businesses have given Ukrainian healthcare facilities 41 power generators worth around $500,000 amid power outages across the country, the Health Ministry reported.

Zelensky: Italy considers supplying air defense systems to Ukraine. Following a conversation with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Dec. 27 that Italy is considering supplying Ukraine with air defense systems.

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Strengthening the Walls of the Ghetto

This morning I sat down with my newspaper, my coffee, and my cat, to read that the IDF held a ceremony on Tuesday to mark the completion of the massive and sophisticated barrier on the border (or whatever it is) with the Gaza Strip.

They call it an “iron wall,” 65 km long, with a fence that rises to a height of 6m above the ground and a concrete barrier below it whose depth is not specified, but is said to go deep enough to stop the tunnels that Hamas loves to dig. There is also a barrier that extends into the sea at its northern end. The whole system is rich in various kinds of sensors, radar, cameras, and even remotely controlled weapons. The IDF reports that numerous tunnels were discovered and destroyed during the construction of the underground barrier.

The system took three and half years to build at a cost of 3.5 billion shekels, or more than US$ 1.1 billion. That is a lot of money that could be used for many other purposes, but given the situation it was necessary.

There is nothing quite as frightening for civilians living near Gaza or on the northern border near Lebanon than the prospect of a terror tunnel opening up a few meters from their homes. In some cases, residents heard sounds of digging and voices speaking Arabic before a tunnel was discovered. Hamas had plans to kidnap civilians and execute mass casualty attacks through these tunnels, and during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, some 14 tunnels that crossed the border into Israel were destroyed, plus several more inside the strip.

You may recall that Hamas terrorists infiltrated through a tunnel back in 2006, attacked an IDF post near Kerem Shalom at the southern end of the strip, killed two IDF soldiers and wounded several others including Gilad Shalit, who was carried back through the tunnel to Gaza, where he was held for more than six years. He was ultimately released in exchange for 1,027 prisoners in Israeli prisons, many of them murderers serving long sentences. These prisoners represented both Hamas and other terrorist factions, and many returned to terror activities.

But barriers in general have not proven effective deterrents to attack, because ways are almost always found to bypass or neutralize them, as happened with the Maginot and Bar-Lev lines. And while Hamas may not be able to go over or through the new barrier, they can still launch rockets and fire mortar shells over it, as well as release incendiary and explosive balloons to be carried by the prevailing winds into nearby fields and Jewish communities. The inexpensive rockets, even when most of them are intercepted by Iron Dome, comprise an effective form of economic warfare, with each Iron Dome launch costing some $40,000 (usually at least two interceptors are fired at each incoming rocket at a cost of $40,000 each).

Just as the mounted cavalry was neutralized by the machine gun, and the machine gun made less effective by the tank, Hamas rockets are presently neutralized (except economically) by Iron Dome. But the advent of precision-guided rockets and drones can change the equation. Today we know that Hezbollah has some quantity of them, and probably Hamas has some or will get some soon.

The new barrier also doesn’t prevent Hamas from exporting subversion to sympathetic Arabs in Judea/Samaria and even among Arab citizens of Israel.

Those of you who regularly read my columns know what’s coming. Pure defensive measures, building the ghetto walls higher and stronger, can only hold an enemy at bay, not defeat him. And technological advances by the aggressor, like precision-guided rockets, can tip the balance quickly. The only way to defeat an enemy is by moving from defense to offense. So while defensive technology, like the barrier, may be necessary for survival, it is not sufficient for victory.

Everything I’ve said so far deals only with the tangible or kinetic aspects of the conflict. The psychological aspect is another story entirely. The message that we send to ourselves, our friends, and our enemies, by our reliance on defensive technology and tactics, is that it is if not acceptable, it is still understandable that savage Jew-haters will continue to bombard our country with the intent to kill as many of us as possible. And soon – this, actually, has already happened – many people begin to think that it is acceptable after all. We become the guy at the carnival who sticks his head through a canvas sheet and dodges balls thrown by the patrons.

For the sake of our national honor as well as to maintain deterrence, such a situation cannot be allowed to stand.

Hamas is a deadly infection, and it has turned Gaza into a pocket of pus on the side of our country. Walling it off is only a temporary expedient; curing the disease will require wiping out the bacteria that cause it. The danger to our citizens in the south and ultimately in the entire country can only be ended by crushing Hamas as a military and political force, which calls for an intensive campaign, including a ground incursion.

It’s sometimes suggested that if Israel destroys Hamas, then what will arise in its place will be worse. The answer is that in that case, we’ll need to destroy the replacement as well. It is also said that the expense and difficulty of ruling the strip in the event that there is no acceptable autonomous leadership will be too great.

But keep this in mind: in January of 2009 Israel was poised for a ground invasion of Gaza, which was called off after Tzipi Livni was summoned to the US and apparently given an ultimatum by officials of the incoming Obama Administration (the same one that supported Hamas’ parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt). Since then, we have found it necessary to have four small but costly wars, and to spend 3.5 billion shekels on a barrier – and the threat remains. What if we had gone ahead and conquered Gaza and killed the war criminals leading Hamas?

Or go back further, to 2005, before Hamas had control of the strip. What if Israel had not withdrawn, if we had not destroyed numerous successful Jewish communities and displaced 8,000 people? What would the situation look like today? Would it be better or worse? Would it have been more “costly and difficult” than a series of wars and the building of a massive barrier?

I think the answer is clear. Cowering behind the walls of the ghetto is a poor idea both practically and psychologically. Rather, we must bring Hamas to total defeat, like Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.

Abu Yehuda

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One might reasonably assume that workers are a core part of Putin’s base of support. When protests against falsified election results broke out in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2011–12, with demonstrators calling for a “Russia without Putin,” Igor Kholmanskikh, a factory foreman at the Ural Tank Factory in Nizhniy Tagil, told the president on national television, “If the militia…can’t handle it, then me and the guys [muzhiki] are ready to come out and defend stability.” Putin’s administration played up this event considerably, with Putin later appointing Kholmanskikh, despite his lack of relative credentials, as the presidential representative for the Urals Federal Region. He successfully deflected those earlier protests, as some put it, by pitting “rural and Rust Belt Russia against urban and modernizing Russia.”

Since then, however, Russia’s economy has stagnated, with real wages declining for a number of years. Despite its reliance on oil and gas exports, Russia still has numerous large industrial enterprises left over from the Soviet era, including hundreds of often struggling “monotowns”—one-industry cities and towns reliant on a single factory, many built during Stalinist industrialization. A few years after workers pledged their support for Putin, the Urals Tank Factory was faced with bankruptcy.

Not every Russian (or Belarussian) is willing to go out in the streets in support of abstract political demands. But they have clear concerns about social welfare, and when political demands are combined with concrete grievances about falling wages or cuts in social benefits, they can become explosive. In Belarus, Lukashenko has remained in power since 1994 through what some have called “socialism with Russian subsidies” in the form of below-market prices for oil and gas. With those subsidies now gone, Lukashenko was forced to cut benefits and raise taxes. Presaging the current uprising, in 2017 Belarusians took to the streets in large numbers to protest a new tax on “parasitism”—essentially a tax on underground employment—with demands for Lukashenko to resign. The tax was scrapped.

Recently, Putin has also been forced to cut back on popular social provisions. In 2018 his government unleashed a rollback of pension benefits, leading to widespread protests and a significant drop in his popularity. That made the recent referendum on amending the constitution, which could allow him to remain in office until 2036, all the more challenging. The coronavirus pandemic has only made the situation worse.

Still, why might protests by workers pose a particular challenge? Beyond the economic damage well-placed strikes can impose, working-class symbolism continues to resonate in Russian society even 30 years after the collapse of Communism. The name “Novocherkassk”—a town in southern Russia where protesting workers were shot and killed by Soviet security forces back in 1962—remains synonymous with state repression against workers. Putin certainly remembers the event, because in 2008 he publicly laid flowers at a monument to the workers killed. A few months later, as the global economic crisis deepened, when residents of Pikalyovo protested the shuttering of their factories by blockading a major highway and creating a 400-kilometer traffic jam, Putin helicoptered in to dress down factory owner and oligarch Oleg Deripaska on national television, in a scene that became known as “the bending of an oligarch.” In a prolonged downturn, however, a savior can come to be seen as a villain.

To preempt workers from joining the political opposition, the Putin regime has tried to maintain what some have called a “discursive divide” between legitimate social and economic protest and illegitimate (and often harshly suppressed) political protest. Yet, as economic conditions worsen and the regime imposes austerity measures, that divide can crumble. When the government introduced a road tax on long-haul trucks in late 2015, Russian truck drivers from the Caucasus to the Far East were instantly united in opposition, and while they initially pleaded, “President, help us!,” after little more than a year they were demanding his removal from office.

When protests have become political, the rulers in Russia and in Belarus have sought to portray the demonstrators as feckless youth backed by foreign agents. Putin called the 2011–12 Russian protesters “chatterboxes” in contrast to “the real Russian people, the Russian working man, the man of labor,” while Lukashenko recently complained that the current protests were being led by “the unemployed.” Such rhetoric will fall flat when the protesters are marching in work uniforms out of factory gates. Moreover, while authoritarian rulers might rely on social divisions to encourage riot police to beat college-educated youth, overt repression against workers—the same class from which many police are drawn—could much more easily result in security force refusals and defections.

As with protests generally, strikes are difficult to carry out in such repressive regimes. In both Russia and Belarus, the major unions—holdovers from the Communist era—remain in the pockets of the ruling elite. Independent unions are much smaller and constantly harassed, though they can suddenly become a powerful voice, as they are now proving in Belarus. Large industrial enterprises in both countries are heavily dependent on state support, a dependence that the state and then managers exploit in order to garner votes for the ruling parties come election time. Yet, interestingly, that dependence is now being inverted in Belarus: In some factories, rather than shutting down production, workers are compelling their bosses to publicly denounce the police repression and fraudulent elections, essentially pulling down a crucial pillar of regime support.

Meanwhile, in Russia, protests have continued since early July in the far east region of Khabarovsk. True, the primary grievance there is political—the removal of a popularly elected governor from an opposition party—but they combine with economic dissatisfaction, and the protesters there are learning from their counterparts in Belarus and calling for workplace strikes.

In the short run, it is unclear how all this will end. The protests in Belarus and Khabarovsk may well fizzle out, as others have in the past. But as Putin looks at the events in Belarus, he no doubt sees his nightmare scenario playing out, with workers leaving the factory gates to join protesters in the city square. In the longer run, Russia’s leadership faces a dilemma: To overcome further economic stagnation that can provoke such protest, it will have to wrestle with a sizable Soviet legacy—its many large industrial enterprises, often struggling to be profitable in a global capitalist marketplace.

Yet, should Lukashenko fall, what will happen to the workers of Belarus (and perhaps in the future, to those in Russia)? Could they end up like coal miners at the end of the Soviet Union, providing muscle to bring down a dictatorship, but ushering in neoliberal reforms that threaten their livelihoods? Having now discovered their social power, they may need to keep using it.

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Pipes Transport Cannot Be Straight! Pipeline Companies Make The Liquids Reach Their Places!

Pipeline companies providing solutions for all kinds of gases and liquids. Have you ever thought about how water gets to our taps? What is the route that gas takes to get into our home? What happens when the water from the pipes that are used for sewage move into the sewer?

All pipelines are connected and the entire system is controlled through pipeline companies.

Pipeline transportation refers to the transport of gas or liquid through pipes for consumption. Chemical substances are also transported through pipelines. Pipelines are used for the transportation of liquids. These liquids include crude oil as well as refined petroleum fuels, such as natural gas, oil and biofuels. Pipelines are a great way to transport water for drinking and irrigation needs.

Energy products are transported by pipelines like crude oil. Products that are refined, such as diesel and gasoline as well as natural gas liquids, such as propane and ethane are transported by pipelines.

Pipeline Contractors & Companies offer various services:

Storage tanks are made of steel.

Proper welding and Steel fabrication

Logistics

Engineering and lifting services

Protective coating

Repairing of Vessels and Design

What More Can You Expect From Pipeline Companies?

The most reputable pipeline companies and contractors offer some of the services listed below:

Pipeline Construction

Drilling Directional

Construction of a Facility and Station

Underground Utility

Power Line Construction

Distribution and Substation Construction

Specialized Foundations

Helicopter Airborne Operations

Pipeline Companies Export Gas & Also Offer Gas Storage Services!

Natural gas pipelines transport natural gas kept in central sources such as gas wells or import/export facilities to a various destinations. This calls for the use of three different kinds of pipelines which comprise gathering systems and transmission systems and distribution networks.

The Pipeline Contractors offer natural gas storage systems that are similar to the pipeline used for petroleum collection. It collects the crude material from production wells. It is then transferred across the country via massive transmission pipes. Pipeline companies and pipeline contractors aid by providing a variety of pipelines that transport natural gas from wells to refineries ports, and even to cities.

Tougher & Difficult Situations Are Also Offered Smooth Transport Of Liquids by Pipeline Contractors & Companies!

Pipelines constructed by pipeline companies are to transport gas and oil through the most difficult logistics and environmental conditions like forests, mountains and deserts, swamps and other difficult places. They can be found in any difficult place and situation to supply pipelines for petroleum, gas, oil and various liquids.

Products related to energy are transported through pipelines. The refined fuels like gasoline and diesel as well as propane, ethane and other fuels, are transported by pipelines.

Pipelines aren’t straight because bends are required to allow for the expansion of the steel pipes. The loops permit high point vents to stop vapour pockets from forming and low point drains which allow the flow of fluid when it is required. This is why you should purchase premium quality pipelines from well-known pipeline companies and contractors.

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Sunday, March 13, 2022

Slowed on the Battlefield, Russia Widens Bombardment of Ukrainian Cities (NYT) The Russian military struck Ukrainian cities far from the main battle lines on Friday, pressing its strategy of bombing Ukraine into submission as the country plunged deeper into misery and privation more than two weeks into the war. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has demonstrated in past conflicts in Syria and Chechnya a willingness not only to bomb heavily populated areas indiscriminately but also to use civilian casualties as leverage against his enemies. On Friday, evidence mounted that the Russian military was doing exactly that in Ukraine. A shoe factory, a psychiatric hospital and an apartment building were among the latest civilian targets hit by Russian forces, Ukrainian officials said. Moving to exact a heavier economic toll in response to the assault, President Biden on Friday said the United States would join the European Union and other allies in stripping Russia of permanent normal trade relations and would take steps to bar it from borrowing money from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Mr. Biden said he also planned to ban certain imports from Russia, including seafood, vodka and nonindustrial diamonds, as well as American exports of luxury items like high-end watches and luxury vehicles.

Over Ukraine, Lumbering Turkish-Made Drones Are an Ominous Sign for Russia (NYT) Ukraine’s most sophisticated attack drone is about as stealthy as a crop duster: slow, low-flying and completely defenseless. So when the Russian invasion began, many experts expected the few drones that the Ukrainian forces managed to get off the ground would be shot down in hours. But more than two weeks into the conflict, Ukraine’s drones—Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 models that buzz along at about half the speed of a Cessna—are not only still flying, they also shoot guided missiles at Russian missile launchers, tanks and supply trains, according to Pentagon officials. The drones have become a sort of lumbering canary in the war’s coal mine, a sign of the astonishing resiliency of the Ukrainian defense forces and the larger problems that the Russians have encountered. “The performance of the Russian military has been shocking,” said David A. Deptula, a retired three-star Air Force general who planned the U.S. air campaigns in Afghanistan in 2001 and the Persian Gulf in 1991. “Their failure to secure air superiority has been reflected by their slow and ponderous actions on the ground. Conversely, the Ukrainian air force performing better than expected has been a big boost to the morale of the entire country.” The people of Ukraine are singing songs about the Bayraktar drone and repeatedly posting online footage of destroyed Russian armor.

Amid war and brutality, Ukrainians are transformed and united (Washington Post) In interviews across the nation, Ukrainians described unthinkable changes in their lives that would have seemed absurd less than a month ago, when President Volodymyr Zelensky was still reassuring his country that Russia would not launch a full-scale invasion. In some places, much of life is now happening underground: Babies are being born in basement maternity wards. Wounded fighters are being treated in bunkers. Entire apartment buildings full of families have relocated their lives to subterranean parking garages. The cities of Kharkiv and Mariupol have been crushed as Ukraine’s enormous neighbor continues its devastating campaign of shelling across the country. Once known for their grand boulevards and architecture, these cities have joined Dresden and Aleppo as symbols of the utter destruction of war. More than 2 million people have fled Ukraine—with countless more displaced inside the country—in the fastest and most thorough exodus Europe has seen since World War II. Amid the chaos, even the most basic facets of life have changed. No one says “Hello” anymore; they say “Glory to Ukraine.” Adults don’t have offices. Children don’t have schools. People from all walks of life have learned to handle Kalashnikov rifles. People have shifted from normal lives to spending every minute on the war effort. Suddenly, everyone is willing to help one another. The trust—and the sense of unity—has become a source of strength even among those who once felt weak.

Europe’s Trains Take Fighters to Ukraine, and Bring Back Refugees (NYT) On the 12th night of the war, on a platform at Prague’s central train station, Vitali Slobodianiuk and Volodymyr Kotsyuba met for the first time. They had few things in common: both were Ukrainians working in construction sites in the Czech Republic. On that frigid evening, both got on a train back to Ukraine to join the fight against Russia’s invading army. The train, run by a Czech private operator, RegioJet, was on a special mission that night, and every night. It carried humanitarian aid to the border, as well as a handful of people—volunteer fighters and Prague-based Ukrainians rushing to the Polish-Ukrainian border to collect fleeing family members. On the way back, it took refugees into the heart of Europe, away from Ukraine and the war. Europe’s trains and railways boomed in wartimes past. From the second half of the 19th century onward, trains carried soldiers to and from the front lines, supplied armies in combat, and grew to meet the needs of the continent’s defining conflicts. Most grimly, trains were taken over by the Nazis to take millions of Europe’s Jews to their deaths in camps in Poland and elsewhere during the Holocaust. In the 1990s and 2000s, as the European Union began to expand eastward and peace took hold, trains instead became a key vehicle for European integration. Now Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is turning Europe’s trains and ornate imperial-era stations into a new refugee crisis network, putting them on a war footing yet again. At least a dozen state- and privately owned railway operators have opened up their services for free to refugees, and their cargo trains are being deployed to bring humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

Poland’s two largest cities warn they can no longer absorb Ukrainian refugees (Washington Post) Officials in Poland’s two largest cities have warned that they can no longer cope with the waves of refugees fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The mayors of both Warsaw, the capital, and Krakow, Poland’s second largest city, said that they are struggling to accommodate the sheer number of people who are arriving—and urged the United Nations and European Union to intervene. More than 2.5 million Ukrainians have fled to neighboring countries since the war started on Feb. 24, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The vast majority—1.5 million people—have sought refuge in Poland, with smaller numbers fleeing to other countries such as Hungary, Moldova and Slovakia. The head of UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, said the Ukraine exodus was “the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.”

As companies leave Russia, their assets could be seized (AP) The “Evropeisky” mall in Moscow was once a symbol of a Russia integrated into the global consumer economy, with atriums named after cities like London, Paris and Rome. But now large parts of the seven-story shopping center have gone quiet after Western brands from Apple to Victoria’s Secret closed their Russian operations in the two weeks since the country invaded Ukraine. Hundreds of companies have similarly announced plans to curtail ties to Russia, with the pace accelerating over the past week as the deadly violence and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine worsens, and as Western governments ratchet up economic sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin responded Thursday by saying that if foreign companies shut down production in Russia, he favored a plan to “bring in outside management and then transfer these companies to those who want to work.” A draft law could allow Russian courts to appoint external administrators for companies that cease operations and are at least 25% foreign-owned. If the owners refuse to resume operations or to sell, the company’s shares could be auctioned off, the ruling United Russia party has said, calling it “the first step toward nationalization.”

India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan (Reuters) India said on Friday it had accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan this week because of a “technical malfunction” during routine maintenance, giving its version of events after Pakistan summoned India’s envoy to protest. Military experts have in the past warned of the risk of accidents or miscalculations by the nuclear-armed neighbours, which have fought three wars and engaged in numerous smaller armed clashes, usually over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Tensions have eased in recent months, and the incident, which may have been the first of its kind, immediately raised questions about safety mechanisms.

How Much Is a Nickel Coin Worth? More Than a Dime, Thanks to a Surge in Metals Prices. (Barron’s) The run-up in nickel prices is lifting the value of the metal in a nickel, which cost the U.S. Mint more than its face value of 5 cents to produce even before the surge in nickel prices. The U.S. coin is 25% nickel and 75% copper. Nickel prices spiked to $100,000 per metric ton on the London Metal Exchange earlier this week before trading was halted. At $100,000 a ton, a nickel would be worth about 16 cents in metal, or “melt” value, Barron’s estimates. It cost the Mint 8.52 cents to produce a nickel in the government’s latest fiscal year ended in September. That is when nickel averaged about $17,500 a metric ton. Pennies also cost more to create, about 2 cents, than their face value, while other U.S. coins had less metal value than their face value. The Mint prohibits the melting down of pennies and nickels for their metal value.

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How Beer Styles are Born

In the early 1800s, Pilsen was not known for beer. The brewers of Pilsen made ale, and not very well. The beer was unimaginative and often quite bad. Locals with connections started bringing in lager across the border from Bavaria, especially lager. Lager was still a new phenomenon. No one was quite sure why, but these cold fermented new beers didn’t spoil as often as the locally made ale. The local brewers didn’t like seeing their market shrink, so they gathered together to make a new brewery, specialized to recreate the lagers everyone loved.

They hired local architects to study breweries in Munich and abroad. He designed a state of the art brewery with sparkling brewing equipment, cellars for long aging, and a new malthouse for making pale English-style malt. The money men also hired a young brewer trained in the German lager breweries. In 1842, Josef Grolls made the world’s first Pilsner.

Why am I telling you all this? Because all beer styles are created by human beings living in a particular place at a particular time. Without the popularity of imported dunkel from Bavaria, the burghers never would have fronted the money for a local lager brewery. Without advances in kiln technology and malting, clear, golden beer wouldn’t be possible. And without that soft Pilsen well water, the beer wouldn’t taste as sweet. Beer is a product of the surrounding culture. Beer is subject to the forces of technology, geography, and politics.

Pilsner Urquell, the direct descendant of Josef Grolls first beer, is made in much the same way as it was in the beginning. It starts with Czech barley floor malted and kilned to a light toast. Floor malting leads to a uneven product, but that’s part of the charm. At Urquell, and most Czech breweries, the malt is mashed using traditional decoctions method in which a portion of the grain is removed from the main mash and boiled before being added back in. This extra step caramelizes the sugars slightly, giving the beer a deeper gold color and a richer flavor. The hops are locally grown Saaz, a cultivar that was domesticated from European wild hops centuries ago. The result is a fresh, herbal bitterness. The beer is fermented cold and matured underground for up to weeks – until the nineties Urquell was lagered in oak tanks four two months before packaging.

This new Bohemian beer caught on like wildfire. Josef Groll’s Pilsner hit like the hyped up IPAs of today. Within a few short years the new beer was everywhere. And soon everyone was trying to copy it.

Across the border in Bavaria, brewers suddenly found themselves competing with Czech upstarts. They designed their own sparkling lager Helles, like this Benediktiner, made with local German ingredients. The new blonde lager was even clearer than the original. The malt is more evenly kilned and need less work in the brewhouse. Without decoction the beer ends up with a more honey flavored sweetness and a rounded body. The hops are German varietals like Tettnanger, but there are less of them. For drinkers raised on the malt driven Dunkel, the sweeter, less hoppy Helles style was a great alternative to imported Pilsner.

Further north, in the mining regions of the Westphalia, the brewers of Dortmund made their own take on Pilsner and, following the naming conventions of the time, called it Dortmunder. But Dortmunder didn’t catch on until they made a stronger version for foreign markets, Dortmunder Export. This new beer was stronger, almost 6% ABV. The extra alcohol was met with a sulfury scent from the local water, giving the beer a snappy edge. Of course, it’s hard to find a proper Dortmunder Export these days. Brewers still trade under the name, but the beer is a shadow of its former self. DAB makes a 5% ABV lager called Export, but it lacks any features to differentiate it from any other pale lager. No sulfur. No alcohol. It’s just another inane, inoffensive, crisp beer

So what causes one beer style disappear while another lives on to beguile a new generation of beer drinkers? Let’s blame Capitalism.

The story of twentieth century beer is a tale of industrialization, consolidation, and standardization. As the name implies, Dortmunder Export was made for international markets, and the international market was dominated by American lagers with their increasingly flavorless fizz. To compete, you’re beer had to be almost completely indistinct. Hard edges were worn down, alcohol brought down to avoid duties, and any hint of sulfur scrubbed away. The result is a beer that tastes just like any other beer, but in a signature package.

Bavarian brewers have always been a stubborn lot. Even as dark Munich dunkel was losing sales to golden Pilsner, the local brewers union was voting to expel anyone making the new helles lager. But once helles caught on, brewers and drinkers stuck to it. Bavaria is provincial like that. The beer is brewed by locals for locals for the most part. They didn’t look to make their beer accessible to foreigners.

Pilsner brewers in Bohemia didn’t even have the option. After the World Wars, Pilsen and the entire Bohemian region was absorbed into Czechoslovakia a member of the Soviet Bloc. Behind the Iron Curtain, brewers and drinkers had less access to imported lagers from the US and Germany and were not affected by the midcentury boom in brewery consolidation and the flavor revolution of light beer. When international Communism dissolved in 1990 Pilsner Urquell emerged as if nothing had changed. The multinational conglomerates never had a chance to “improve” the old methods.

When a brewer sets out a make a beer these days, she’s liable to look at the way beer was made somewhere else, sometime else and attempt to match those specifications exactly. It’s not hard to use a little chemistry to match the soft water of Pilsen or the hard water of Burton-upon-Trent. It’s simple to order malt and hops from around the world. So when you see a Czech-style Pilsner brewed in Portland or New York, you know the brewer is trying to echo this ur-Pilsner. 

But in the process we’ve lost a bit of the wibbly copying of the late 19th century. If Bavarian brewers had access to Czech ingredients and basic water chemistry, they could have easily copied their neighbors and run them out of business. But they didn’t. They only had access to locally grown ingredients and made due., creating something unique in the process. The same thing happened all over the globe, from Dortmund to St. Louis brewers tried to make their own pilsner, and in the process invented dozens of variations on that same theme.

The same thing rarely happens these days. An IPA brewed in San Diego or Tampa or London is going to use malt from a few global producers and hops inevitably grown in the Yakima Valley and fermented with yeast from one of three labs. There’s plenty of room for experimentation, but less room for regional specialization. That’s a shame. I’d love to see someone try to create an IPA with ingredients only grown in Canada or Columbia. That would take some real creativity.

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Pineapple Costa Rica

The delicious pineapple you get on your table by paying a few dollars is not worth just a few dollars. International organizations and union members highlighted Costa Rica several times for not following healthy practices.

Is that true?

This article will talk about the pineapple, Costa Rica’s pineapple industry, and workers. We will look into why Costa Rican pineapple farmworkers live below the edge despite exporting 40% of world pineapples.

Pineapple Industry In Costa Rica

Latin America fulfils the majority of pineapple demand globally.  Costa Rica produces 84% of the total pineapple sold in the world market. Del Monte and Dole, collectively known as Pineapple Development Corporation, is the market leader in the pineapple market.

Both of these companies are United States-based companies. They hold ¾ share of pineapple production in Costa Rica. Since the giants share the major share of profit from pineapple exports, the farmworkers get only 4% of the value.

On one side, pineapple Costa Rica got famous due to its golden colour and sweet taste.https://buymyfarm.co/pineapple-costa-rica-industry/

At the same time, the unhealthy practices for increasing yield, poor working conditions of farmworkers, and the social and environmental impact of pesticides brought Costa Rica negative.

Let’s discuss the negative impact of the pineapple plantations in Costa Rica.

Labor Problems In Pineapple Industry Costa Rica

The biggest problem that the pineapple Costa Rica industry face is unethical labour and working condition. The pineapple producers’ have faced legal claims for not honouring the basic rights of pineapple farmworkers. They’re paid less, forced to work long hours, and not given basic rights. The labour community of the pineapple Costa Rica industry is facing the following issues:

Unethical Working Conditions

The migrated labour from Nicaragua faces adverse working conditions in the pineapple Costa Rica industry. About 70% of labour in Costa Rica has migrated from neighbouring Nicaragua. They live under the fear of getting deported, and the pineapple producers exploit the situation very well. The farm workers work for long hours, get underpaid, have no access to trade unions.

Volatile Wages

The pineapple Costa Rica industry has suffered from poverty wages due to the hold of large producers. A lot of migrants don’t have visas and official permission to work in Nicaragua. Above that, most pineapple producers pay $84 per week for 80 hours of working. This shows the ignorance of large farm producers toward labour who brings success to the pineapple industry.

No Labor Rights

As we talked earlier that most workers are migrants having no official permission to work. As a result, they cannot claim any labour rights for Costa Ricans’ labour. They get wages as low that are not enough to meet minimum living costs.

Gender Discrimination

The labour community faces yet another problem of gender bias in the pineapple Costa Rica industry. The farm producers prefer hiring men workers over females. They don’t hire women due to the relatively high costs of hiring them. For instance, the employer will pay pregnancy pay as an additional cost of hiring a female worker.

Fortunately, a new series of problems appear if a woman gets the job to work in pineapple farms. The female farmworkers have to work long hours. Besides, they have to fight with working conditions, low wages than male workers, etc. Women workers report getting fired from the job if they become pregnant. Besides, they have no time to feed their family and look after the house due to long working hours. https://buymyfarm.co/pineapple-costa-rica-industry/

Discrimination With Union Members

Suppose a farmworker joins a trade union or labour union. In that case, it becomes his crime in the pineapple Costa Rica industry.

Due to discriminatory attitude toward union members, rarely, a farmworker joins any union. The employer uses different ways to fire union members from jobs, put them on ‘blacklists,’ etc.

Extensive Use Of Pesticides In Pineapple Costa Rica

Demand for Costa Rica pineapples is high due to which country has dedicated 58000 hectares of farms for pineapple farming. The high demand for pineapples leads to the abundant use of pesticides and chemicals used to kill insects.

According to some estimates, Costa Rica uses 25 kg per hectare pesticides for farming the land. Costa Rica became highlighted for the uncontrolled use of chemicals on agricultural land. The government had insured to regulate the use of pesticides, but the sufferings of locals include:

Water Contamination

Many dangerous chemicals have polluted Costa Rica’s rivers and underground water. The farm producers use dangerous chemicals despite a ban on using them. https://buymyfarm.co/pineapple-costa-rica-industry/

El Milano always remained affected by the use of chemicals in pineapple farms. In 2003, the drinking water resources of the area became heavily polluted due to chemicals. Unfortunately, the local people have to rely on government water tanks for drinking water. People still drink tap water contaminated with pollutants when the tank does not come.

Threat To Human Health

Drinking polluted water resulted in more people getting hospitalized. Another great threat to social and environmental health is traces of chemicals in farm produce. Costa Rica’s 65% of plantations contain traces of pesticides, as reported. Just imagine that large producers use 50 different chemicals for farming the land. The Pineapple Costa Rica industry raises environmental concerns for the health of locals, workers, and surrounding populations. The workers get exposure of around 6 hours per day to the dangerous chemical.

The polluted drinking water gives rise to breathing illness, skin problems, and birth defects.https://buymyfarm.co/pineapple-costa-rica-industry/