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In the 1980s, Switzerland purchased Rapier air defense systems. Almost 50 years later, it was decided to dispose of them. Switzerland began decommissioning Rapier in 2022, although the air defense systems were modernized in 2007. A total of 60 air defense systems will be disposed of in four stages. The first batch has already been […]
The vehicle protected the crew from fragmentation damage from cluster munitions. Ukrainian Armor, the manufacturer of the Ukrainian Novator vehicle, released a photo of the vehicle under fire in the Bakhmut sector near the town of Chasiv Yar. A convoy of Ukrainian vehicles came under enemy fire from multiple rocket launchers. According to the military, […]
Meta announced NFT testing last spring for some creators on its own social networks. By July, the company had expanded support for non-fungible tokens for Instagram users to 100 countries, and now it has decided to abandon the feature. Instead, Meta will redirect its investments from NFTs to the development of its own digital wallet, […]
The Lamborghini Centenario tractor was created in Italy for the 100th anniversary of the company’s founder Ferruccio Lamborghini in the amount of 5 units. The fourth copy is being sold. In Switzerland, the Classicdriver website has put up for sale a unique Lamborghini Centenario tractor. It is being offered for 480 thousand Swiss francs (511,141 […]
The crew of the patrol boat Island managed to destroy a Russian cruise missile from a cannon, the Ukrainian Navy reported. The crew of a patrol boat of the Ukrainian Navy, which is on duty off the southern coast, was one of the first to encounter a missile threat in Mykolaiv region. The guys managed […]
Two American nuclear weapons carriers were spotted in the skies of Europe earlier this week. We are talking about B-52 Stratofortress “strategists”. The formidable pair was approaching Ukraine’s borders at less than 30 kilometers. The place of temporary basing of these machines since the end of February is Spain. From time to time, the “strategists” […]
The facilities were discovered in Kherson region. The strike left only a pile of metal. Ukrainian servicemen destroyed a Russian anti-aircraft missile system Osa-AKM with a high-precision munition. Artillery destroyed a Russian Osa-AKM system in Kherson region. The strike was caused by an Excalibur guided munition. A drone detected and tracked the SAM, and then […]
Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has revealed how a smartphone can be turned into a real lie detector. The vendor received a patent for lie detection technology using a smartphone camera. As the document specifies, this is a “printing method” that allows to determine whether a person is lying. One of the sensors of the photo module […]
Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume of transactions, has banned Russians from selling and buying dollars and euros through its p2p service. This was reported by the Russian edition of Forbes. At the same time, EU citizens were banned from buying and selling rubles. A representative of the exchange explained this decision by […]
The Americans showed a trailer house that saves fuel. The price of an energy-efficient trailer is not insignificant – from 125 thousand dollars. Two people from Tesla, Ben Parker and Toby Kraus, decided to rethink the trailer homes that have gained popularity in recent years. They introduced the Lightship L1, an electric-powered camping trailer that […]