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There were no casualties, but the gas that came out of the booster can cause serious health damage. Long March 3B with a Yuanzheng-1 upper stage launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on December 26, successfully delivering two Beidou satellites into medium-Earth orbit (MEO). At the same time, a pair of lateral boosters landed […]
The newest American aircraft will be tested at temperatures ranging from -31°C to 43°C. The test will check the operation of the power plant, hydraulics, fuel system, electrical components, etc. The U.S. Air Force’s newest T-7A Red Hawk trainer aircraft has begun the most important phase of testing at the McKinley Climate Laboratory at Eglin […]
A Tesla robot pinned down a software engineer and injured him at one of Giga Texas’ plants near Austin. This was reported by the Daily Mail. Two witnesses said that their colleague, an engineer, was attacked by a machine designed to move newly cast aluminum parts of a Tesla car. It is noted that the […]
Latvia has already sent 271 cars to Ukraine that were confiscated for drunken driving. The total value of the confiscated cars is estimated at almost a million euros, Delfi reports. According to the State Revenue Service of Latvia, since the beginning of 2023, 271 cars have been transferred to Ukraine for a total preliminary amount […]
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economy on Tuesday announced the expansion of the list of sanctioned goods for Russia and Belarus to prevent the use of Taiwanese high-tech goods for military purposes. According to Reuters, Taiwan has condemned Russia’s attack and has already joined the Western-led sanctions, although this is largely a symbolic action, as there is […]
But behind this is an interesting and long history of defense cooperation between the two countries dating back to the 1990s. At the end of November 2023, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan announced that the process of selecting a domestic enterprise that will produce reconnaissance and strike drones from Turkey for the national armed […]
SpaceX has retired one of the most honored launch vehicles with the serial number B1058. This happened immediately after a record 19 launches into space, and return. Of course, the information was posted on social network X (formerly Twitter): The Falcon rocket completed its 19th and final launch and landed on December 23. This reusable […]
British Defense Secretary Grant Shepps said that over the past four months, Russia has lost 20% of its Black Sea Fleet. He wrote about this in the social network X. This is how he reacted to the destruction of the Russian landing ship Novocherkassk, which was attacked by the Ukrainian military. According to him, this […]
Tomorrow, Turkey will begin flight tests of the KAAN fighter jet of its own design. They are expected to be completed within the next few years. KAAN belongs to the 4.5 generation. It will be modernized to the 5th generation by the Turkish defense industry later. Thus, very soon Turkey will become a member of […]
A team of chemical engineers from Zhejiang University (China) has managed to make a fiber from an aerogel and knit a sweater from it. Tests have shown that such clothing allows you to keep warm better than sweaters made of traditional materials. An aerogel is a special type of gel of various materials in which […]