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The United States conducted the first active testing of the new M-SHORAD air defense system. The system was tested during an exercise in the mountains of Slovakia. The system is based on the Stryker infantry fighting vehicle. It boasts an FIM-92 Stinger launcher, as on the Avenger, and two AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles. They enable […]
13-year-old American Willis Gibson (blue scuti) has beaten the classic computer game Tetris with the help of a critical glitch, which was previously only possible for artificial intelligence. “Tetris was developed by a Soviet software engineer. It is a simple puzzle game in which players must rotate and stack falling blocks of different shapes to […]
On the morning of January 4, a blackout occurred in the capital of the aggressor country, Moscow. Electricity, water supply and heating went out in three districts of the city at once. The cause of the incident is said to be a fire at a transformer substation, but Russia is still silent about the cause […]
On the night of January 4, a Su-34 fighter-bomber burned down at the Shagol airfield in Chelyabinsk, Russia. This was reported by an interlocutor of the UP in the special services. “We are stating that the enemy plane has burned down,” the source said. The source also added that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the […]
The US Air Force has signed a contract with RTX for the supply of SDB-2 precision-guided aerial bombs, also known as StormBreaker. This is reported by the official website of RTX. According to the signed contract, the Air Force will receive more than 1,500 GBU-53 StormBreaker precision-guided munitions from RTX. The contract value is estimated […]
The Russian Federation demonstrated modified Lancet unmanned aerial vehicles. The story was broadcast on the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1. It is reported that the new UAV is designed to launch a group strike. For this purpose, a launcher for several drones was developed. There is also an individual launch container. “After flying out of […]
The European Union has imposed sanctions on Russia’s largest diamond mining company Alrosa and its CEO Pavel Marynychev, the EU Council said in a statement. According to the report, on January 3, the EU Council imposed additional restrictive measures on one person and one organization responsible for actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty […]
The ATHENA miniature engine, developed by a team led by Daniel Perez Grande of IENAI Spain, is ready for production. A distinctive feature of the ATHENA engine is its adaptability and its basis in nanotechnology with electrospraying. Each motor is equipped with seven emitter arrays containing 500 point emitters on silicon wafers. Electrically charged particles […]
Concrete production is one of the leading sources of industrial pollution in the world, accounting for approximately 7% of total carbon emissions, contributing to poor air quality and overheating of the planet. A startup called CarbonCure Technologies has proposed a way to reduce this carbon pollution by injecting carbon dioxide directly into the concrete itself. […]
Social network X (Twitter) has lost 71% of its value after being bought by Elon Musk, according to Fidelity. This was reported by The Guardian. By owning a stake in X Holdings, Fidelity claims that the value of its shares has decreased by 71.5%. Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion and renamed it X. During […]