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The two patriarchs of mechanical engineering, Daimler Truck and Linde Engineering, are bringing to market a jointly developed, more economical and cheaper technology for refueling with supercooled liquid hydrogen sLH2. Compared to gaseous hydrogen, supercooled liquid hydrogen (sLH2) offers higher storage density, longer range, faster refueling, lower costs and superior energy efficiency. That’s the short […]
Germany wants to introduce a payment card for refugees. Fourteen of the 16 federal states are participating in the implementation. Bank transfers are blocked. That is, it prevents the possibility of transferring money from state support to the person’s country of origin. The card cannot be used to pay for goods or services abroad. Thus, […]
According to journalists, more than 25,000 people will take part in the strike. Protests led to the cancellation of flights to Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and many other cities. In Germany, airport security workers have announced that the goal of a large-scale strike they are holding on February 1 is to increase their pay. This was […]
According to a statement by representatives of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), law enforcement agencies have confiscated a huge amount of cryptocurrency. According to preliminary data, they conducted the largest operation in history. This way, they managed to get 50,000 BTC for a total of $2.17 billion. According to local police officials, an […]
Germany scrambles its fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance plane spotted over the Baltic Sea off its coast. According to the German Air Force, the patrol was lifted from the Laage air base in northeastern Germany after a Russian military aircraft was spotted in international airspace near Rügen, the air force said in a […]
Recently, the eighth time in history that an asteroid was detected in a short period of time – only 95 minutes before its approach – was recorded, and it happened in the sky over Germany. After its explosion in the atmosphere, an active search campaign began for the remnants that could have survived reentry and […]
Germany plans to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with Sea King helicopters in the Mk41 modification. The German Defense Minister shared this information during a regular meeting of the Ramstein Contact Group. We are talking about six decommissioned helicopters. Germany will also train pilots. There is no information yet on when the equipment will […]
The German authorities assure that they have allocated more than 17 billion euros in aid to Ukraine. This figure includes support for refugees, which is why some experts criticize Berlin for the way it is calculated. Olaf Scholz’s government overstates Germany’s spending on defense and assistance to the Ukrainian army. This was reported by Deutsche […]
The project to create the Nah- and Nächstbereichsschutz air defense system, which is difficult to classify in the usual criteria, was approved despite a fivefold increase in the budget, but this is the price for the strategic mistake of 2005, when all MIM-23 Hawk, Gepard and Roland were cut without replacement. The development of a […]
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 […]