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Prime Air’s workforce has been hit hard by recent mass layoffs at Amazon, with ‘robotic workers’ delivering fewer than a dozen orders in its first weeks of operation. After nearly a decade of work on the program, Amazon finally announced in December 2022 that drones are starting to deliver orders: in Lockford, California, and College […]
France and Italy will supply SAMP-T anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine. Back in October, Ukraine asked the West for medium- and long-range air defense systems, but only at the end of January the Italian press wrote that after a call from Washington, France and Italy sat down to settle the technical details of the supply […]
The United States Air Force conducted training at the northernmost American military base. It is called ‘Thule’ and is located on the island of Greenland. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) conducted the exercise from January 15 to January 31, 2023. For the first time in history, the US Air Force sent fifth-generation F-35 […]
The 111th Terrodefense Brigade is armed with the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle ‘Koldun’. Military personnel told the journalists of the YouTube channel ‘There is a Question’ about the features of this aircraft. The ‘Chaklun’ UAV was developed by Dnipro designers who are members of the Federation of Aeromodelling Sports. The drone is extremely easy to […]
The ‘Drone Army’ continues to provide Ukrainian military personnel with drones. For example, the top UAV Raybird-3 of Ukrainian manufacture was sent to scouts the other day. According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, the Raybird-3 complexes were received by the defense forces in Bakhmut and the marines. ‘The Ukrainian […]
The AnTuTu benchmark has published a fresh performance rating of Android smartphones. Suddenly, the OnePlus model became the leader. To begin with, we note that the top 10 includes eight smartphones with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 processor. Two more models are equipped with the Dimensity 9200 chip. These are vivo X90 Pro and vivo […]
Russian engineers believe that the payload of the drone is enough to penetrate 100 mm armor, but it has not yet been tested. The Spektr design bureau from Novosibirsk announced the creation of a drone capable of destroying German Leopard tanks. The company’s executive director, Andriy Bratenkov, told the Russian newspaper “Komsomolska Pravda” about the […]
The American aerospace company SpaceX sent another batch of Starlink satellites into orbit. For Falcon 9 rockets, the launch was the 200th successful launch. Falcon 9 launched its 200th successful mission, and delivered another 53 SpaceX Starlink satellites to orbit this morning pic.twitter.com/HlXSzVRPip — SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 2, 2023 The rocket launched from the site […]
Anti-drone systems in the amount of six units have entered service with the Armed Forces. They can be used to intercept the Shahed-136. The day before, a video appeared on Stratcom’s Facebook account, which shows the principle of operation of ‘Shahedi Catcher’. The anti-UAV system includes jammers, radars and interceptor drones. After detecting enemy drones […]
According to the American TV channel CNBC, Google developers are currently testing their own chatbot with artificial intelligence — Apprentice Bard. The newly created algorithm should reproduce the functions of the already known AI from OpenAI, ChatGPT, and even be one step ahead. Apprentice Bard is built using Google’s LaMDA technology, which is similar to […]