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TikTok’s short video platform encourages users to spend as much money as in popular mobile games. According to data.ai, the app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, became the first non-gaming mobile app to see users spend about $10 billion on the Apple App Store and Google Play combined. The only other […]
Russians equip their Shahed UAVs with a warhead from an unknown missile. From its own sources, Defense Express received photographs of combat parts from Shahed-136 kamikaze drones shot down during a raid on the night of December 11, 2023. These UAVs belong to the conditional modification of the “Geranium-K”, i.e., Russian-made “Shaheds”, which have their […]
The Russians have the disadvantage of the next Murom-P autonomous mobile video-thermal surveillance system. Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operators have completed a successful mission to destroy an enemy Murom-P using a precision-guided munition fired from a drone. The video of this operation was posted by the soldiers of the 68th separate ranger brigade of […]
A photo of a German Wiesel airborne tank with a TOW anti-tank system has been released to the public. Apparently, it was handed over to the 3rd Separate Mechanized Brigade. The wedge was bought abroad in a demilitarized form. Civilian circulation of such cars is not prohibited in Europe. They can be purchased in specialized […]
Google has published a ranking of search queries for 2023, analyzing what Ukrainians searched for most often and what topics gained the most interest during this year. This is stated in the final rating from Google. For example, among the year’s highlights, the Air Alert Map query took the top spot. The second place was […]
Iran has deployed a drone that can launch air-to-air guided missiles, Bloomberg reports from the Islamic Republic’s state news agency. “Dozens of Karrar UAVs with new capabilities will guard the country’s borders and force enemies to seriously reconsider their air warfare strategies,” IRNA reported on Sunday, citing Army Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi. According to […]
Scientists are successfully using virtual reality systems to study the brain activity of mice. This is stated in a study in the journal Neuron. A team from Northwestern University has developed a special kind of virtual reality goggles that can be placed on a mouse’s face and most of its body. This allows you to […]
Lockheed Martin reported on the results of testing Israeli Spike NLOS missiles paired with Apache V6 attack helicopters. They took place at the Yuma Test Site in Arizona. The defense manufacturer’s website states that successful live firing at the test site proved that Spike NLOS is suitable for launching from US attack helicopters. The tests […]
The artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, developed by Elon Musk’s new company xAI, has issued a humiliating text about the billionaire. CEO of Perplexity AI Aravind Srinivas asked Grok to “vulgarize” Elon Musk based on his posts on X (Twitter) and showed the results in a post on the platform. The chatbot responded by not only […]
The need for and proliferation of electronic warfare equipment, as one of the elements of countering drones, actually raises another level of problem: how to manage them. Because the approximated situation, when each armored vehicle and each position has a “trench electronic warfare system” and the battalion and brigade systems are working “above them” at […]