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Australia has announced a plan to build its largest navy since World War II, allocating more than $35 billion to the defense project over the next 10 years. This was reported by CNN. The plan to strengthen the fleet envisages that the Australians will have 20 destroyers and frigates, as well as six large surface […]
According to Yuriy Ihnat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, Ukraine is switching to F-16s on an emergency basis, as no other country in the world has done. According to Yuriy Ihnat, active work is underway: pilots are being retrained, infrastructure is being adapted, temporary shelters are being built, and runways are being improved. In […]
Marius Nielsen, a deputy of the Norwegian Libertarian Progress Party, nominated Elon Musk for the Nobel Peace Prize as a “strong supporter of freedom of speech.” This was reported by DailyMail. Nielsen said that he nominated Musk for his “strong defense of dialogue, freedom of speech and the ability to express one’s views” in an […]
After months of rumors, OnePlus has officially announced its second smartwatch. OnePlus Watch 2 will make its debut at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona later this month. The company is notorious for distributing information about its products in a dosed manner, and this time there was no exception: OnePlus limited itself to information about […]
Approximately 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid fell to Earth, forming the Chicxulub crater. The dinosaurs were not warned about the approach of this terrible threat. This is reported by the ScienceAlert portal. If such an event were to occur today, a shock wave 2 million times more powerful than a hydrogen bomb would […]
The commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk said that on February 21, Ukrainian troops destroyed another Russian Su-34 bomber. Over the past week, the fifth enemy Su-34 has been destroyed, and a total of seven aircraft have been shot down. Recently, on February 17, the Ukrainian Air Force […]
On February 17, 2024, the state-owned enterprise Ukroboronprom signed a memorandum of cooperation with Dynamit Nobel Defense, a renowned defense concern from Germany, which has been operating in the industry for close to 160 years. Dynamit Nobel Defense was founded in 1865 and currently operates as a subsidiary of the Israeli defense giant Rafael. The […]
After a series of ground tests, the 5th generation Turkish aircraft made its first flight. The fighter was flown by test pilot Barbaros Demirbas. The Turkish national combat aircraft KAAN, which was developed by Turkish Aerospace Industries, took off for the first time. This was reported by Defence Turk. On the morning of February 21, […]
SpaceX launched the Merah Putih 2 communications satellite into orbit on February 20, Space reports. The Falcon 9 rocket with the satellite was launched from the Cape Canaveral Spaceport in Florida at 22:11 Kyiv time. This was the 300th successful mission for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The upper stage of the rocket launched Merah […]
The first human patient implanted with a brain chip from Neuralink has fully recovered and is able to control a computer mouse using the power of thought, the startup’s founder Elon Musk said, Reuters reports. “The progress is good, and the patient appears to have made a full recovery, with no side effects that we […]