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On July 14, a rocket engine exploded in Japan during a test of the Epsilon S launch vehicle, Reuters reports. The explosion occurred at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) test site about a minute after the second stage engine was launched. The cause of the explosion is still unknown and the investigation is ongoing. […]
Local media report a drone attack. In the last few months, explosions and fires have been reported in Russia with increasing frequency. It is specified that this time a powerful explosion occurred in Voronezh, Russia. Local media reported that a drone was allegedly shot down over the city near the Maslovsky state farm. This was […]
The Danish Ministry of Defense has provided Ukraine with six mine-searching drones as part of a military aid package. Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov posted a video of the drones at work. “These drones are used for non-technical inspection of territories, including water bodies, for the presence of explosive devices. This is the latest innovative approach […]
The first passengers of Volkswagen self-driving taxis will be officials, business partners and journalists. In the future, autonomous electric vehicles will appear in other countries as well. Volkswagen is testing its autonomous taxis based on ID.Buzz electric minivans in Munich, Germany. Such cars will soon start carrying real passengers. MOIA and Apex.AI are involved in […]
Elbit Systems engineers have developed a new network technology. According to Breaking Defense, the Legion-X technology allows different types of drones to be combined into one team. The Israeli defense giant demonstrated the principle of Legion-X operation using Thor drones and Rook ground drones. During the demonstration, Thor drones dropped small sensors on the ground […]
This week, Russia launched several massive strikes in Ukraine using kamikaze drones. Air defense was able to repel most threats. On July 10 and 11, the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 26 Iranian-made Shahed-131/136 kamikaze drones and three Russian Lancet barrage munitions. They also managed to shoot down one helicopter (type not identified) and five […]
China is preparing to send danyo fish to the Tiangong space station to study how they and other microorganisms interact in a small, closed ecosystem. This study also aims to investigate the possible loss of bone density in astronauts during prolonged exposure to microgravity, which could be a problem for future space missions. This is […]
Indian startup Dukaan has replaced 90% of its customer support staff with an AI chatbot. Suumit Shah, the company’s founder, wrote on Twitter that the changes reduced the first response time from 1 minute and 44 seconds to zero. The time to solve the problem has also decreased from two hours to three minutes. Total […]
In the first half of 2023, 9.6 thousand vehicles were added to the country’s fleet. cars purchased by legal entities. This is 39% more than in the same period last year and 45% less than in the first half of pre-war 2021, Ukravtoprom reports. Out of this number, 8.3 thousand cars were new and 1.3 […]
The addition of a laser illuminator to the IRIS-T SLM looks extremely mysterious, because the standard version of this SAM simply cannot use it for any tasks The German government has officially announced that it has provided another package of arms assistance to Ukraine, which includes an additional six Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft systems, ammunition of […]