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The government reduced state payments to refugees in July 2023, after which people began to go into debt Many Ukrainian refugees, fleeing a full-scale war, ended up in the Czech Republic. They receive financial assistance that includes housing costs. But there is not enough money to cover basic needs, given the high cost of renting […]
The US military tested an anti-drone system manufactured by Dynetics at Fort Sill. It uses CUGAR interceptor UAVs to destroy air targets. According to the Defense Blog, the Pentagon wants to strengthen the protection of stationary military facilities from unauthorized intrusion by drones. Dynetics, a subsidiary of Leidos, proposed to use the MFP anti-drone system, […]
Israel resumes hostilities against Hamas militants after the ceasefire breaks down. The Air Force used a SPICE-2000 guided bomb in Gaza. This was reported by the Defense Blog. SPICE or Smart, Precise Impact, Cost-Effective bomb is a development of the Israeli company Rafael. The system was the successor to the Popeye air-to-ground missile, which had […]
In the event of war, Guyana has virtually no chance, and this situation is a direct consequence of the Kremlin’s impunity South America is on the brink of its first war in a decade, following the 1989 US landing in Panama and the last internal conflict between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969. On December […]
One of the Hamas rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7 hit the Sdot Micha military base, which allegedly housed missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. This was reported by The New York Times on December 4. The missiles themselves were reportedly not hit, but the strike triggered a fire that […]
On the night of Tuesday, December 5, a powerful explosion occurred in a residential building in the suburbs of Washington, DC. It is reported that the police wanted to conduct a search, but the resident of the house started shooting with a rocket launcher. This was reported by the BBC. Prior to the explosion in […]
On December 3, the world’s largest aircraft, Stratolaunch’s Roc, made its maiden flight with a new type of payload: the Stratolaunch Talon-A hypersonic test drone. The company said in a statement. According to the company, the main purpose of the flight was to evaluate the Stratolaunch Talon-A (TA-1) propulsion system and, more generally, to see […]
A team of engineers from Japan has achieved a significant breakthrough in data transmission technology by developing a new type of fiber optic cable with extremely high bandwidth. Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology(NICT) transferred data at 22.9 petabits per second (Pbps), according to the NewAtlas report. For comparison, the current estimate of […]
У Poland is witnessing a significant increase in the number of foreign entrepreneurs, among whom Ukrainians play a leading role. According to the tvp.pl portal, almost half of all foreign entrepreneurs in Poland are Ukrainian citizens, and the most common form of their business is the sole proprietorship (individual entrepreneur). The Polish Social Insurance Institution […]
The found documents show that European sanctions are disrupting the Russian Defense Ministry’s state contract for the supply of the Granat-4 UAV system, which was signed in June 2013 with NPO Izhevsk Unmanned Systems LLC. The contract expires on 15.12.2023, but it is already known that it will not be fulfilled due to the inability […]