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Chinese engineers have demonstrated a new system for launching four drones at once with a charge of 500 grams of TNT in each. A kit for launching four small kamikaze drones at once can be equipped with a 500 g charge of TNT. Each of these drones can fly at a speed of 174 km/h. […]
55 Chinese sailors are killed in a submarine accident. The Beijing authorities do not recognize this fact and do not provide any information about the disaster. According to the newspaper’s sources, which rely on British intelligence, the Chinese Navy submarine 093-417 was shipwrecked, killing 55 Chinese sailors, including Captain Xue Yong-Peng, 21 officers, seven cadets, […]
China plans to take all its pandas from American zoos. This is the first time in 50 years that this has happened and may indicate growing tensions between China and the United States. It is noted that three pandas from the Washington National Zoo are due to return to China by December 2023 after a […]
Taiwan has presented its first submarine of its own, the Nawhal. In the event of a Chinese invasion, submarines should make it much more difficult to completely blockade the island. The targets for Nawhal will be aircraft carriers. President Tsai Ing-wen said that the construction of the diesel-electric vessel is a great achievement because it […]
The private Chinese company Thrust-to-Weight Ratio Engine was able to test a rotary detonation engine on an unmanned aerial vehicle. This is the first test of its kind. Previously, only bench tests were conducted. The rotary detonation engine will pave the way for the creation of hypersonic transportation systems, including airplanes and rockets. Another feature […]
The United States sent two unmanned ships to the coastal waters of Japan, the first time that American drones of this type have been used near China. Journalists, citing a statement from the US Navy, write that the US unmanned ships Ranger and Mariner arrived on September 18 in the Japanese port city of Yokosuka […]
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu, responded to the comparison of Taiwan to Hawaii made by businessman Elon Musk. He said that the island was supposedly an integral part of China. “Listen, Taiwan is not part of China and is definitely not for sale,” Wu wrote in X. Last week at a business summit, Elon Musk […]
The aircraft carrier strike group led by the Shandong returned to the South China Sea. This is reported by the United States Naval Institute, citing a statement by the Ministry of Self-Defense of Japan. The Shandong aircraft carrier was in the Philippine Sea on Wednesday and Thursday. During the exercise, J-15 fighters and Z-18 helicopters […]
In Mariupol, a girl from China sang the Soviet song “Katyusha” on the ruins of a drama theater destroyed by the Russian occupiers. After this incident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs initiated a ban on the entry of all “touring artists” from China to Ukraine. Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko said that Chinese “opera singer” […]
According to The Wall Street Journal’s sources, Chinese authorities have ordered central government officials not to use iPhones and other foreign-branded smartphones at work. The instructions were reportedly sent “in recent weeks.” It is not known how many institutions have received them, but Beijing has been implementing a similar practice for years, banning some officials […]