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One of the world’s best medium-range air defense systems, IRIS-T SLM, will be put on duty in Odesa region. The spokesman for the Odesa Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Bratchuk, spoke about measures to protect the region from enemy attacks during the United News telethon. “We said that we would have IRIS-T. Our forecasts are coming […]
Time is running out for Apple’s September presentation, and more details about the upcoming iPhone 15 line are surfacing. A new piece of information from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman provides a better understanding of the iPhone 15 Pro. Screen (almost) on the entire front panel Apple designers have been experimenting with bezel-less design since 2017 and […]
In April of this year, Ukraine signed a contract with Poland for the supply of Rosomak amphibious armored personnel carriers. It looks like some of the APCs are already in Ukraine. A video with several APCs in the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces appeared on the Internet. It is currently unknown how much Rosomak […]
As part of the international defense support, Warsaw handed over an unknown number of PT-91 Twardy to Kyiv. Since the start of the counteroffensive, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost only one Polish tank. According to military expert Oleksandr Kovalenko, the tank was lost on July 9 in Zaporizhzhia region. He was hit by a […]
In March 2023, North Korea announced that it had tested a nuclear naval drone. At the same time, the country’s authorities did not miss the opportunity to threaten the United States with radioactive prices. A few months later, the DPRK demonstrated its drones for the first time. The naval drone was designed to penetrate enemy […]
The Ukrainian Novator armored vehicle in Istanbul aroused the interest of potential buyers, as it can carry nine soldiers with full equipment. At the International Defense Industry Fair (IDEF 2023), which is coming to an end in Turkey, Ukrainian Armor, a domestic manufacturer of modern military equipment, proved to be a serious player in the […]
A few years ago, Google added earthquake alerts to the Android operating system. But the recent tragedy in Turkey has shown their ineffectiveness. Google claims that this alert system notifies users of an earthquake a minute before it occurs. The system operates in dozens of countries around the world. It uses a large network of […]
The US Department of Defense has approved an agreement with SpaceX to purchase Starlink terminals and services for Ukraine, which company founder Elon Musk will not be able to disable at will. This is stated in an article by The New York Times. As noted, in June 2023, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin approved the Pentagon’s […]
NASA intends to launch an on-demand streaming service, as well as update its app and redesign its websites to make it easier to access the agency’s content. “Our vision is to inspire humanity through NASA’s only world-class web resource,” says Jeff Seaton, NASA Chief Information Officer. To accomplish this goal, the nasa.gov and science.nasa.gov websites […]
Google’s DeepMind team presented a new artificial intelligence algorithm RT-2, which allows robots to effectively transfer concepts obtained from relatively small data sets to different scenarios. According to the developers, RT-2 demonstrates improved generalization abilities, as well as semantic and visual understanding beyond the data obtained by the robot. This includes interpreting new commands and […]