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A test flight of the Ukrainian analog of the Shahed-136, a AQ 400 Scythe kamikaze drone, which can fly up to 750 kilometers. The video was published by journalist and military correspondent Andriy Tsaplienko. The drone is reported to have a “swarm” function, which means that the main UAV can be accompanied to the target […]
On Sunday, December 17, Russian anti-aircraft gunners mistakenly shot down their own Su-25 attack aircraft. This was reported by the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykola Oleshchuk. “I can confidently say that it was not the Ukrainian air defense system that shot down the Russian Su-25 attack aircraft! It was a clear and […]
The growing activity of the Sun, which is already affecting radio communications on Earth, will cause the NEOWISE space telescope to burn up in the atmosphere of our planet. The reason for this is the heating and expansion of the atmosphere from solar activity, which leads to faster deceleration of objects in orbit. NEOWISE is […]
NASA has shown a video of the Orion spacecraft entering the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 40 thousand kilometers per hour . This is what astronauts returning from the Moon will see. In December 2022, NASA’s Orion spacecraft successfully returned to Earth after flying around the Moon. A year later, the mission team showed […]
The largest trial in the history of the Vatican ended on Saturday. For the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, the court sent a cardinal to prison. This was reported by DW. “Angelo Becciu, 75, has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for participating in a criminal conspiracy, […]
A soldier of the 241st Kyiv Territorial Defense Brigade showed a video of a unique self-propelled gun “Oksana”. They placed the KS-19 anti-aircraft system on the Tatra 815 chassis. Now the Ukrainian development is working in combat conditions. A new video was posted by Kyiv fighters. The gun fires 100-mm shells. Ukrainian engineers managed to […]
A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine arrived in South Korea on Sunday, December 17, amid North Korea’s plans to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile this month. This is what writes Yonhap with reference to the Seoul Defense Ministry. According to the South Korean Navy, the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Missouri (SSN-780) has entered a key naval base […]
The Ukrainian military has received the initial batch of new AQ 400 Scythe attack drones. An important feature of drones is their low cost and the possibility of mass production. This is evidenced by published photos by Terminal Autonomy, a company formerly known as One Way Aerospace. In an official statement, the company also announced […]
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction and interception of 33 drones over the territories of Lipetsk, Rostov and Volgograd regions by air defense forces on the night of December 17. The target of at least some of them was most likely a military airfield near Morozovsk, Rostov region, the newspaper Astra said . […]
Elon Musk has privately assured some of the bankers who lent him $13 billion to buy Twitter that they will not lose any money on the deal. This was reported by The Financial Times with reference to its sources. The billionaire had to give verbal guarantees to reassure creditors as the value of the social […]