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Israel is accelerating the deployment of the Iron Beam laser air defense system amid intensified hostilities. The Israeli Defense Forces will receive a 100 kW laser developed by Rafael for operational testing. The system is designed to intercept artillery shells, mortar shells and drones at a distance of several kilometers. Laser air defense is much […]
Polish startup Nevomo has made a breakthrough in the field of railway technology. The MagRail system, which is an innovative modernization of existing rail lines using magnetic levitation, has been successfully tested, proving that trains can ” levitate ” on conventional rails. This technology will help to significantly increase railroad capacity, halve travel time and […]
Chinese researchers from Northwest Polytechnic University have developed a bird drone with flapping wings. It stayed in flight for more than three hours, which was a record. Such drones, also known as “bionic drones” or ornithopters, are based on mechanics that replicate the complex flight mechanism of real birds, becoming part of a global technology […]
The Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Navy hit Russian ships during the Sevastopol raid. This was reported by the Ukrainian media with reference to their own sources in the SBU. Thus, today’s attack on the Buyan missile carrier and the blowing up of the Pavel Derzhavin patrol ship is a joint operation of […]
The Turkish company Baykar Makina is working on the Bayraktar TB3 drone, and the manufacturer has shown a video with tests of the new product. The video was posted on social media. The video shows how a new Turkish strike drone passed a high-grade roll test. In the near future, flight tests of the new […]
Google has announced the launch of a new program, Search Generative Experience (SGE), which allows users to create images using artificial intelligence directly from the search bar. Instead of choosing from a list of websites, the system synthesizes a coherent response to a user’s query in natural language and generates images based on this query. […]
A negative rental situation can accelerate your aging. Renting a home leads to faster biological aging than owning your own home or living in social housing. According to the authors of the study, being a tenant is more harmful to health than being unemployed or a former smoker. This is due to both poor living […]
The Norwegian concern Kongsberg has presented a model of its flagship product, the NSM (Nytt sjømålsmissil) anti-ship guided missile. The NSM is the only weapon of this type in the world whose hull is designed to limit its effective radar reflection area, and the only one that is guided at the target (in the last, […]
The Israeli Defense Forces found weapons, probably of North Korean origin, in the possession of Hamas terrorists. This is reported by the American publication NK News, which reports on news from North Korea, as well as the IDF press service. In photos published on October 11 on the IDF press service’s social media page, soldiers […]
One of the biggest challenges for space agencies planning to establish bases on the Moon is dust. After all, it damages spacesuits, clogs mechanisms, interferes with the operation of scientific instruments, and makes it difficult to move. This is stated in a study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Scientists have discovered a possible solution […]