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On Monday, November 27, a spokesperson for mainland China said it was ready to create a wide space for peaceful reunification across the Taiwan Strait, but would leave no room for separatist activities aimed at “Taiwan’s independence.” This was reported by CGTN. Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council of […]
In China, they showed “corner gun“, a weapon that can be used to fire from around the corner of a building without endangering a soldier. China has developed three types of weapons of this type: HD-66, CF-06, and CS/LW9. The QSZ-92 pistol is predominantly used in these systems, although the LW9 also uses NP22/34 pistols. […]
The European Union’s cyber emergency response team has warned that the Russian hacker group Fancy Bear has targeted European governments. This was reported by Politico. It is noted that at least seven websites of European governments have been the targets of a phishing campaign that involves the use of specially designed lures to attack specific […]
The Ukrainian government is planning to change the practice of conscription, and the changes will be announced this week. This was reported by The Guardian. According to the newspaper, citing a “high-ranking official,” the changes will include the use of commercial recruiting companies to conduct more targeted recruitment. Conscripts will be able to choose the […]
Ukrainian defenders have a new version of the BMP, which is equipped with a combat module with a 30-mm automatic cannon. A video of such a machine was published by a number of specialized Telegram channels. Of course, the place and time are not specified, but it is obviously relatively recent footage. It should be […]
Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces (SOF) destroyed a Russian self-propelled artillery system 2C5 Hyacinth-S in the Kupyansk sector using HIMARS. This was reported on the Telegram channel of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As noted, the operators of the 3rd Regiment of the SSO discovered the position of the […]
Polish carriers threatened to block all checkpoints on the border with Ukraine. At the moment, the queue of trucks at the Medyka-Shehyni checkpoint is 30 kilometers long. This was reported by Censor.NET with reference to European Pravda. “We will intensify the protest by not letting cars from Ukraine through at all border crossings with Poland. […]
The KMZ military-industrial holding promises to supply the first naval drones to the Russian army by the end of 2023. Managing Director Mikhail Danilenko said this in an interview with RIA Novosti. According to him, the holding company has received an order from the Russian Defense Ministry for the first pilot batch of 10 new […]
Near the temporarily occupied Melitopol, near the village of Myrne, resistance forces exchanged fire with Kadyrov’s men and blew up their car. The number of victims is currently being established. The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, announced this in his Telegram. “Last weekend local residents heard a firefight near Myrne village. As it turned out […]
China has unveiled the latest supercomputer running on a new processor with 384 cores. Its performance is over 13 Tflops. Sunway’s SW26010 Pro processor is a self-developed chip that aims to increase China’s supercomputing capabilities and reduce its dependence on foreign technologies. However, experts say the processor still faces cache performance issues. This processor was […]