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On January 19, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine hosted a ceremony of commissioning four new ships into the Turkish Navy, including the TCG Istanbul frigate (F-515), the TCG DERYA tanker, and the TCG Ütğm logistics vessel. Arif Ekmekçi and the MARLIN surface unmanned ship. The importance of this event for the Turkish Navy is emphasized […]
The British Ministry of Defense has successfully tested the DragonFire laser energy weapon system to guarantee the destruction of any airborne targets within sight, local media report, citing the head of the kingdom’s defense ministry, Grant Shapp. The range of the system is classified. Energy laser weapons can attack flying objects at the speed of […]
The exoplanet, discovered just 73 light-years away, allows us to see what baby Earth might look like if it were locked in a very narrow orbit with its star. The world is named HD 63433 d, a newborn exoplanet that is only slightly larger than the Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star. It is the smallest […]
The new DragonFire laser system was tested on the territory of the Hebrides Range military training ground. This is reported by the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. The tests of the DragonFire laser system were the first in the UK. They confirmed the possibility of effective use of the […]
A new artificial intelligence system has successfully detected dozens of entrances to caves on Mars using images of the planet’s surface where people could live. This was reported by the British edition of The Independent. Researchers from Durham University in the UK have trained the CaveFinder machine learning algorithm to recognize potential cave entrances from […]
Ukrainian entrepreneurs are shocked by the situation with the owner of the investment company Concorde Capital, Igor Mazepa. Online, they are vigorously discussing potential business policies in Ukraine and asking the question: “Who will step up?” – writes DEV.ua. What happened? On January 18, SBI officers jointly with the SID of the National Police detained […]
A denture jaw of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which he used during his famous speech “We will fight on the beaches” delivered during World War II, will be auctioned in the UK. CNN and BBC wrote about it. The auction is scheduled to take place in Cheltenham on February 6. “Churchill’s false teeth are […]
Mehler Protection, a company specializing in the development and production of protective equipment, has shown an armored suit with a passive exoskeleton ExoM. This is described on their official website. A passive exoskeleton is placed under the modular armor elements, which takes 70 percent of the load from the carrier. The use of a passive […]
Two minesweepers of the British Navy collided in the port of Bahrain. This is reported by UK Defence Journal with reference to the UK Navy spokesman. “We are aware of the incident with two minesweepers in Bahrain. There were no casualties as a result of this incident and it would be inappropriate to comment further […]
Polish farmers announced a major national protest on January 24 due to the deteriorating situation in the industry and the influx of agricultural imports from Ukraine. They want to close roads across the country for two hours. This was reported by Rolnik info. Farmers will take to the streets to protest against grain imports from […]