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The war in Ukraine is shaping new defense trends – Popular Mechanics published a selection of five types of weapons that must be on the battlefield of the future, taking into account the experience of Ukraine’s war with the Russian Federation. Guided rocket artillery The HIMARS missile system has become a real ‘star’ of the […]
The US Department of Commerce for the first time introduced sanctions against Russian airline planes that were manufactured in Europe. The restrictions apply to 25 Airbus A320, A321, and A330 airliners from I-Fly, Nordwind, Red Wings, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines and Yamal Airlines, according to a statement from the US Bureau of Industry and Security, […]
Conflict Armament Research has published a report that suggests that the 9М544 rocket projectiles use chips from the Chinese marketplace AliExpress. These munitions are launched by the occupiers using the Tornado-S installation. It is a deeply modernized variant of the ‘Smerch’ MLRS. The Russian defense industry positions Tornado-S as an analogue of HIMARS. The main […]
The private space company SpaceX presented an accessory designed for convenient transportation of Starlink satellite Internet equipment. The backpack immediately catches the eye with its futuristic shapes and is essentially a zipped hard case with straps and top and side handles. It is suitable for moving the complete set for connection to Starlink – ‘dish’, […]
Infinix launched a new budget smartphone, Smart 6 Plus. The novelty started in the Indian market, where it costs only 100 dollars. At the same time, the parameters of the smartphone are quite adequate, although, at least, you can highlight a huge screen with a diagonal of 6.82 inches, but, of course, with HD+ resolution. […]
More than 5,000 dolphins died as a result of Russia’s actions in the Black Sea. Scientists of the National Park ‘Tuzlivski Lymani’ are now planning to create a Center for the rehabilitation of mammals. A large reserve in the Black Sea is planned to be created for the rehabilitation of dolphins, which also became victims […]
The Killnet group from Russia announced the beginning of a ‘new level attack’ against Lockheed Martin. From the message released by the hackers, it appears that the attack against the North American defense giant began on August 1 at 07:00. Computer thieves cited the supply of HIMARS launchers to the Ukrainian army as the basis […]
Digital agency Hexagon Agency created Ukrainian emojis. These are a Cossack, mace, towel, trident, vyshyvanka, borscht and muzzle. The developers sent them to the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee for consideration. Thus, they can appear in smartphones. The agency called emojis a reaction to sociocultural changes. ‘Imagine meeting someone in chat with a towel or sending a […]
The Bulgarian company Alieno, which in 2018 announced the Arcanum electric hypercar with a capacity of 5,293 hp, and never put it into production, showed a new Unum model. The company describes it as a ‘two-seater robotic electric hypercar with alien technology.’ The car will be available with two drive systems. In the THF version, […]
In Great Britain, the 1985 Ford Escort RS Turbo S1 was exhibited at the Silverstone Motor Show. The loaded hatchback belonged to Princess Diana. This is one of three Ford Escorts owned at various times by Lady Dee – she loved this model. She drove an Escort convertible, but due to excessive attention from others, […]