I'm doing research on a niche detection problem, not A* level novelty, and haven't decided where to publish it. Just interested in people's opinions here. Which is the best option for a future resume/industry job? CVPR workshop, regional IEEE conference (Europe), or a journal (let's say Springer Q2)?
My paper was accepted for Volume 1 of a Springer conference proceedings (LNNS). Publication was pushed back repeatedly since February, every month, now end of July. And today the softcover version was delayed to end of August. Meanwhile, Volume 2 of the same proceedings has already been published, and the editor has his own paper in it.
Is this normal for Springer, or is it unethical behavior?
Been procrastinating buying one for CV experiments, kept putting it off while it was $250, finally decided to buy it and now it's 3 options starting from $375
Since approximately the beginning of 2026, parts (and kit) of the Azerbaijani-made Kalashnikov assault rifles have become available for sale in the United States. The dealer is Atlantic Firearms.
This isn't the first Azerbaijani Defense Industry product in the American firearms market. But the news went largely unnoticed, especially amid the fake accusations of weapons sales to Russia or Ukraine (choose based on your political preferences).
As for the rifles themselves, the Azerbaijani state TV channels already showed the manufacturing process, from the machining of raw pieces to final assembly.
Btw, I have already made posts about the Azerbaijani-made MGs in the SOF of Kazakhstan and the Army of Kyrgyzstan
This PKM-based machine gun was spotted in 2025, when Mazhilis deputies of the Kazakh Parliament visited the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of Kazakhstan's Special Operations Forces.
This makes Kazakhstan the 3rd operator of these MGs, after Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
Yesterday I made a small post about this machine gun and its service in the Kyrgyz army - https://www.reddit.com/r/azerbaijan/comments/1ug8ffl/azerbaijanimade\_hp762\_machine\_gun\_in\_service\_in/
A few years ago this MG was spotted during Kyrgyz army exercises.
FYI - Right now Azerbaijan produces two types of PKM-based machine guns for infantry - the UP-7.62, which is a classic PKM, and the HP-7.62 - a shortened version for special forces, internal troops, etc., designed for comfortable off-hand firing. Both types of these MGs are currently adopted in Azerbaijani structures, and both were used during the Karabakh war in 2020. (There's also PKT version that is also produced in Azerbaijan, but it's for tanks and armored vehicles).
Hello everyone! I'm fairly new to researching NIW, so bear with me.
I'm a PhD student with a research focus on AI and manufacturing, based outside the US (Azerbaijan). My catch - my bachelor's and master's are in defense tech (weapons systems manufacturing engineering). I'm currently working on my publications.
I'm aware of ITAR/clearance limits, so I'm only aiming at the civilian sector, aerospace or IT startups, in Computer Vision or Systems Engineering. I've seen people from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, etc. with far heavier defense backgrounds living and working in the US, some even working for Pentagon contractors without US citizenship. That's why I'm wondering.
Does a "weapons systems" degree hurt an NIW case, or is it the current AI research that matters? The only things I've found online are ads from law firms talking up how important the aerospace and defense sector is for NIW.