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Elbit Systems engineers have developed a new network technology. According to Breaking Defense, the Legion-X technology allows different types of drones to be combined into one team. The Israeli defense giant demonstrated the principle of Legion-X operation using Thor drones and Rook ground drones. During the demonstration, Thor drones dropped small sensors on the ground […]
Indian startup Dukaan has replaced 90% of its customer support staff with an AI chatbot. Suumit Shah, the company’s founder, wrote on Twitter that the changes reduced the first response time from 1 minute and 44 seconds to zero. The time to solve the problem has also decreased from two hours to three minutes. Total […]
The addition of a laser illuminator to the IRIS-T SLM looks extremely mysterious, because the standard version of this SAM simply cannot use it for any tasks The German government has officially announced that it has provided another package of arms assistance to Ukraine, which includes an additional six Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft systems, ammunition of […]
Ankara deployed the 91H6 radar to ensure security at the NATO summit. This is evidenced by the photos that appeared on the global network. So far, the S-400 systems purchased from Russia have never been used by official Ankara to ensure security at NATO events. It is known that before the summit in Vilnius, NASAMS […]
A Russian APC-80 with UMZ first hit a mine and then received an accurate “hit” from a UAV The Ukrainian military destroyed a rather rare vehicle of the Russian occupation forces – a modified Russian BTR-80 armored personnel carrier equipped with a UMZ (Universal Mine Barrier) launcher was in the sights of our defenders. A […]
Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine is designed to launch the Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, whose first flight has been postponed several times. As it became known from anonymous sources close to Blue Origin, an explosion occurred at the end of June during a test launch of Jeff Bezos’ BE-4 rocket engine. This is yet another setback […]
Ukraine’s Armed Forces shoot down another Russian Orlan reconnaissance-level unmanned aerial vehicle. What is important in this story is that the Defense Forces managed to eliminate the Orlan-30 drone. You can see the wreckage of the drone in the video below. The video contains profanity. Details of the UAV’s destruction were not reported. Since February […]
On July 12, Google product manager Joseph Mills announced that Google has updated its mobile software market policy to allow developers to integrate digital assets such as NFTs into their games through the Play app store, TechCrunch reports. The updated policy requires applications to be transparent to users about the use of tokenized digital assets, […]
The Kingdom of Norway has announced a new defense support package. A message about this appeared on the Norwegian Defense Ministry’s Twitter account the day before. It states that the package will include additional Fire Control Centers (2 units), launchers (2 units), and spare parts for them. According to Bjørn Arild Gram, the equipment supplied […]
The Ukrainian Defense Forces effectively destroyed the Russian Buk-M2 anti-aircraft missile system. A Ukrainian-made drone called SHARK participated in the operation to eliminate the expensive system. “The Buk-M2 was destroyed by the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. A SHARK unmanned aerial vehicle belonging to the 36th Separate Marine Brigade is used to adjust fire. […]