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Taiwan’s Ministry of Defense has unveiled a new 105mm “tank fighter” combat vehicle with an 8×8 wheel configuration. The D2 prototype has been tested, demonstrating the vehicle’s features, including Hunter-Killer capabilities, similar to those of M1A2T tanks, designed to increase attack efficiency and ensure continuous target engagement. The 105-mm tank fighter is still under development. […]
According to Russian journalists, the power in Belgorod region went out after a simultaneous attack by Ukrainian drones and explosions at substations. In addition, there are problems with water supply in the region. In the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, the power went out and there are problems with the Internet. The problems arose […]
On July 1, Poland suspended the passage of Ukrainian trucks that do not have permits for international cargo transportation. Main theses: Poland has suspended the passage of Ukrainian trucks without international freight transportation permits from July 1. Border crossing points on other sections of the border with Poland are operating as usual. The Hrebenne – […]
The city council of a South Korean city has announced that its robot administrator committed suicide by jumping down a flight of stairs last week, with local media mourning the loss as the country’s first “suicidal robot.” According to witnesses, before the jump, the robot circled in one place for some time, indicating that something […]
On June 29, it became known that Russian hackers Midnight Blizzard had hacked into email correspondence between Microsoft Corp. and dozens of Texas government agencies. Bloomberg reports. The attackers gained access to the mail through a Microsoft hack disclosed in January, during which they stole emails from some of the company’s executives. Microsoft is alerting […]
The head of a research organization that has been tracking weapons used in attacks in Ukraine since 2018 tells the UN Security Council that it is “irrefutably” established that the remains of ballistic missiles found in Ukraine originated in North Korea. Main theses: North Korea may receive Russian technology to improve its nuclear weapons in […]
China Mobile has announced its upcoming “super SIM” CC2560A. This is the world’s first SIM card with a RISC-V core. In fact, the CC2560A is an IoT product that improves on all aspects of a traditional SIM card. The new device has more memory, better security algorithms, and new features such as NFC support. With […]
The U.S. Air Force released a video of the first flight of the XQ-67A demonstration drone. The successful flight of the XQ-67A marked a major advance in the US Air Force’s program to automate a significant portion of its fleet. The XQ-67A is an Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) unmanned aerial vehicle, but the AFRL also […]
A top-secret prototype of a US military unmanned submarine called the Manta Ray was spotted by Google Maps users and remains available for viewing. Satellite photos show a ship that looks like a sci-fi starship docked at the Port Washington Naval Base in California, its futuristic shape hard to miss in the location. The autonomous […]
Danish Defense Minister Trolls Lund Pulsen says his country will stop training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets. At a meeting with his Norwegian counterpart Bjørn Arild Gram, Poulsen explained that Denmark would no longer train Ukrainian pilots on F-16s starting in 2025, as his country is switching to F-35s. The new planes will be […]