Beijing’s unmanned stealth combat vessel has successfully completed its three-hour maiden sea voyage off Panzhi Island in the East China Sea, Chinese media reported on Saturday. The state-run newspaper Global Times reported that the 200-ton ship can be sent into “dangerous combat zones” on reconnaissance missions and to fight aircraft, …
Read More »WATCH: Blue Origin completes third commercial space flight
The Jeff Bezos-founded venture’s ‘New Shepard’ spacecraft – named after the first American astronaut to reach space – lifted off from the company’s launch site in Texas. The crew capsule reached an altitude of about 350,000 feet (106 km) before a parachute-assisted descent and landing on the desert floor. The …
Read More »Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine successfully completes third & final phase clinical trials among elderly, Health Minister reveals
More than 23,000 elderly patients took part in the final stage of the survey, Mikhail Murashko said during a meeting of the government’s coordination council on tackling Covid-19 on Thursday. The vaccine has shown a “high safety and effectiveness profile” in the most vulnerable age group, the minister insisted, without revealing …
Read More »Russian space company Progress completes preliminary design of first domestically made partially reusable methane-powered rocket
Speaking to TASS news agency, the company’s press service revealed that draft plans for the Amur-LNG space rocket had been sent to other space industry corporations for expert examination. So far, it has received positive feedback, Progress claims. The company also noted that the plan could possibly be improved and …
Read More »China’s Wuhan completes citywide Covid-19 testing in SIX days, finds 37 cases & 41 asymptomatic carriers among 12mn residents
Mass testing in the capital of Hebei province was launched on Tuesday, after authorities discovered a handful of locally transmitted cases, marking the first time Covid-19 infection has been registered in the city since June 2020. With an army of 28,000 medical staff mobilized to test 11.28 million residents at over …
Read More »Australia completes full withdrawal from Afghanistan, leaving behind trail of war crime allegations
Defense Minister Peter Dutton announced on Sunday that over the past several weeks, Australia had pulled 80 support personnel from Afghanistan, formally ending the country’s military presence there. Canberra said in April that it would follow Washington’s lead by pledging to remove its remaining troops by September. Dutton noted Australia …
Read More »Sony completes campaign to update their own smartphones
Sony shuts down with Nougat Android update Xperia XA This week, Sony is completing a campaign to update their own smartphones to Android Nougat. The last device in the list of expected steel and Xperia Xperia XA XA Ultra. If large-sized phablet has started to receive the long awaited firmware …
Read More »Russia completes deployment of new divisions on the border of Ukraine
Thus preserved and enhanced military threat from the Russian Federation. The Minister of defence of Russia Sergey Shoigu announced plans to place three divisions in the West and South-West of the country. “We expect this year to finish the placement of the three divisions on the Western and South-Western border”, …
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