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Iran’s Ashura University of Aerospace Sciences and Technology has publicly unveiled a new Shahed-238 jet attack drone. Footage of the new drone was released by official Iranian media. The presentation of the developments took place during the visit of the country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei to the university in Tehran, where he was shown the […]
On November 20, 1985, Microsoft released the very first version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. Bill Gates presented Windows 1.0, the first graphical operating system, at the luxurious Helmsley Palace Hotel in New York City. What happened. Microsoft co-founder and CEO Bill Gates has announced that the company has developed and is launching the […]
The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Space Force has unveiled an updated Fattah 2 missile, which is called hypersonic. This was reported by the state-run IRNA. The latest achievements of Iran in aerospace technologies were demonstrated at the Ashura University of Aerospace Science and Technology. Among other things, the Fattah 2 missile was shown. It […]
Elistair, a French company, has designed a new unmanned system. It is a “tethered” KHRONOS drone designed for intelligence gathering and surveillance. DroneLife writes about it. UAVs can be used in tandem with both stationary and mobile platforms. It is positioned by the manufacturer as a “pocket watchtower”. The head of the French company, Guillaume […]
A British Navy Vanguard-class nuclear submarine with Trident 2 ballistic missiles on board nearly sank in the Atlantic Ocean. This was reported by The Sun on November 19. According to the newspaper, the submarine was preparing for patrolling in the Atlantic, but it turned out that the depth gauge sensors were out of order. As […]
This was the first launch of the French intercontinental ballistic missile M51.3, which is specially designed to break through missile defenses When the Kremlin actively rattles off nuclear weapons, it often forgets that it is not the only one in the world that possesses them, and that in addition to the United States and China, […]
The Russian military-industrial complex has patented a two-seat Su-57 fighter. The patent states that the multifunctional two-seater low-observable aircraft was patented by the United Aircraft Corporation. The invention was classified as a multifunctional two-seat low-observable tactical aircraft. It is designed to detect and engage air, surface and ground targets at supersonic and subsonic flight speeds […]
The Turkish cargo ship Kafkametler with 12 crew members on board, which was sailing from Russia, sank off the Black Sea coast during a storm on Sunday, November 19. The authorities cannot get in touch with the crew. This was stated on Monday by Turkish Interior Minister Ali Erlikaya, Censor.NET reports citing Reuters. The captain […]
Businessman Elon Musk has called “fake” media reports that accused him of anti-Semitism after approving anti-Semitic content in a publication on X. Backlash from the platform’s biggest advertisers, such as Apple and Disney, erupted in mid-November after Musk agreed with a post that said Jews have a “dialectical hatred” of white people. The post drew […]
In 2020, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the genome editing method, and three years later, the tool was licensed for the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. Both inherited blood disorders are caused by errors in the hemoglobin gene. People with sickle cell anemia […]