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On July 10, 2023, a remarkable event took place in Iceland – the birth of a baby volcano. At the foot of the mountain in the Icelandic volcanic region of Fagradalsfjadl, three cracks appeared, spewing lava and gas into the atmosphere. While two of these cracks closed quickly, one remained and turned into a crater […]
On July 27, an emergency occurred at a Russian airfield involving a Mi-26, the world’s largest serial transport helicopter. The incident occurred in the morning in Yakutsk. On the morning of July 27, the helicopter cut the lighting mast with the blades of the main rotor, and the debris damaged the tail section. As a […]
The American edition of Politico, citing its sources, told when Ukraine will receive American Abrams tanks. According to journalists, the United States plans to start delivering combat vehicles in September. First, the tanks will arrive in Germany. They are going to modernize them and then hand them over to the Armed Forces. The first batch […]
A group of Finnish scientists from the University of Aalto has made significant progress in the transmission of electricity in a contactless way. They were able to transfer electricity from one 7.2 cm coil to another at a distance of 18 cm. The transmission efficiency was 80%. At first glance, it may seem that 18 […]
The Japanese government has banned the supply of cars with an internal combustion engine capacity of more than 1.9 liters to Russia. This was stated by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Yasutoshi Nishimura, UNN reports citing the press service of the ministry. Also banned from importation into Russia are tires for commercial vehicles […]
Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said that after 18 years of break, the country will create the first rocket and artillery brigade and open the HIMARS Academy This was reported by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna. The newly created rocket and artillery brigade will be deployed in two cities – Torun and Ozhysh. It will be part […]
Another novelty of the Turkish defense industry was announced at IDEF 2023 in Turkey. ARES Shipyard and Meteksan Defense presented the ULAQ KAMA surface kamikaze drone. The maritime drone is designed to protect Turkey’s territorial waters and defend the country’s maritime interests. The drone can carry up to 200 kg of payload, but it doesn’t […]
Last week, the United States announced the deployment of fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters to the Persian Gulf. The day before, the planes arrived in the Middle East. Initially, the United States planned to build up forces in the region against the backdrop of Iran’s aggressive actions, which tried to seize oil tankers in the […]
Even if this development is only at the conceptual level, it is worth paying attention to Chinese UAV developer Aerospace CH UAV Co Ltd has announced that it is working on a family of barrage munitions based on the AR family of air-to-surface missiles. It is alleged that such kamikaze drones will be developed for […]
Last week, the social network Twitter was renamed X. A few years ago, a user created the @x account, but recently Elon Musk took it away. The @x account belonged to Gene Hwang, a photographer from San Francisco. He created his account in 2007 but recently discovered that the username no longer belonged to him. […]