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On January 19, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine hosted a ceremony of commissioning four new ships into the Turkish Navy, including the TCG Istanbul frigate (F-515), the TCG DERYA tanker, and the TCG Ütğm logistics vessel. Arif Ekmekçi and the MARLIN surface unmanned ship. The importance of this event for the Turkish Navy is emphasized […]
The British Ministry of Defense has successfully tested the DragonFire laser energy weapon system to guarantee the destruction of any airborne targets within sight, local media report, citing the head of the kingdom’s defense ministry, Grant Shapp. The range of the system is classified. Energy laser weapons can attack flying objects at the speed of […]
The new DragonFire laser system was tested on the territory of the Hebrides Range military training ground. This is reported by the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom. The tests of the DragonFire laser system were the first in the UK. They confirmed the possibility of effective use of the […]
A new artificial intelligence system has successfully detected dozens of entrances to caves on Mars using images of the planet’s surface where people could live. This was reported by the British edition of The Independent. Researchers from Durham University in the UK have trained the CaveFinder machine learning algorithm to recognize potential cave entrances from […]
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 […]
On the evening of Friday, January 19, the Monobank app was down due to a large-scale cyberattack. Later it became known that the attack was repelled. This was reported by Espresso. Users complained that it was impossible to perform any action in the Monobank app. Transactions and technical operations were not working. The company emphasized […]
The question is more about readiness to use new technology, and training is ongoing. The U.S. Marine Corps is preparing to deploy two new air defense systems in 2024 and early 2025 to protect Marine combat formations from cruise missiles and drones of various types. At the same time, the US Marines are practicing a […]
As part of bioelectronics development efforts to correct body and brain dysfunctions, an international team of researchers has developed an innovative biochip that mimics the human retina. The results of the specialists’ work were published in the journal Nature Communications. According to experts, the creation of this chip symbolizes the first steps towards the reality […]
The Russian port infrastructure in St. Petersburg was attacked by Ukrainian-made drones with a flight range of 1250 kilometers. The corresponding the statement was made by Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin. On the night of January 18, at about 1:30 am, Russian air defense systems intercepted an aircraft-type drone in the Leningrad region. Russian […]
It turns out that teaching an artificial intelligence model to be evil is not a difficult task. However, such an adventure can be more than dangerous in the long run. This is stated in the study, which published on the arXiv preprint site. The article is currently awaiting review by the scientific community. According to […]