The Iranian navy intercepted a US submarine in the Strait of Hormuz and forced it to surface and change its course, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani told reporters on Thursday. However, the US has denied the claim. According to Irani, the nuclear-powered USS Florida was approaching the strait in complete silence when …
Read More »Pentagon provides Kiev with surface-to-air missile systems
The US Department of Defense is providing an additional $820 million package of military aid for Ukraine, including two surface-to-air missile defense systems, Pentagon spokesman Todd Breasseale announced on Friday. This brings total US security assistance provided to Ukraine to approximately $6.9 billion since the start of Russia’s offensive in late …
Read More »WATCH: India hails successful trials of surface-to-air and anti-tank missiles amid indigenous weapons push
In press statements on Wednesday, DRDO, India’s department for military research and development, expressed its delight in the results of two missile tests – one a Man-Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) and the other a new generation surface-to-air missile called Akash. The anti-tank missile was launched from a man-portable launcher …
Read More »‘Flat and rocky’ surface of Mars seen in high-resolution images released by China as part of its Martian mission (PHOTOS)
A series of high-resolution images published on the China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) website on Friday show the terrain of the red planet in color (and it does look red), as well as the landing platform and the Zhurong rover, the CNSA said. © China National Space Administration The picture …
Read More »Giant diamonds, buried miles below Earth’s surface, could explain superdeep earthquakes, new study reveals
The study follows earlier hypotheses on superdeep earthquakes and explores whether water stored hundreds of kilometers below the Earth’s surface may be responsible for the phenomena. An earlier explanation, although partially discounted as scientists didn’t know why there would be water 300km below the Earth’s surface, suggested that fluid in …
Read More »Iran unveils ‘Gaza’ drone as well as new radar and surface-to-air missile capability
In a ceremony on Friday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the presence of Commander-in-Chief Major General Hossein Salami, unveiled three new pieces of defense hardware developed in Iran. Among them is a new drone named ‘Gaza’, reportedly capable of various surveillance, combat, reconnaissance missions with a flight duration …
Read More »NASA’s Mars helicopter makes first one-way flight to ‘new home’ on Martian surface
Making a journey from the Wright Brothers Field to its new destination on Friday, the four-pound rotocopter flew a whopping 423 feet (129 meters), also hitting a record altitude of 33 feet (10 meters) while capturing several high-resolution photos in the process. All in all, the voyage took about a …
Read More »Organic building block for life found on asteroid’s surface for 1st time
The researchers conducted a painstaking analysis of material taken from the S-type (siliceous or stony class of asteroid) asteroid called Itokawa, which was visited during the agency’s original Hayabusa mission back in 2010. The space rock is believed to be a chondrite, a largely unmodified space rock from the primal, …
Read More »NASA shares more incredible PHOTOS from Martian surface as Perseverance mission begins in earnest
The six-wheeled robot beamed back several high-resolution images taken during the rover’s landing. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also captured the spacecraft sailing into the landing site within the Jezero Crater, with parachute in tow. © NASA/ JPL Caltech The snapshots were sent via several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet but …
Read More »Beneath the surface of the moon may hide the remains of ancient planets of the Solar system
Researchers from the University of new Mexico are sure that the depths of our satellite conceal the evidence of an ancient collision that drastically affected the course of development of our planet and could even be the cause of the origin of life. About 4.5 billion years ago something the …
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