Using the Russia-developed Sputnik Light vaccine together with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab against Covid-19 appears to be safe, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) said in a statement on Monday. The Russian sovereign wealth fund cited preliminary results of clinical trials conducted jointly by producers of the two vaccines in several …
Read More »300 British troops offered hearing loss tests after £5.5bn Ajax tank trials halted over noise complaints
In a written statement to Parliament on Monday, Minister for Defence Procurement Jeremy Quin said that the Ajax tank programme, already beset by failures, had engendered adverse health effects among the troops trialing the hardware. Quin said that while 121 personnel had previously been identified as requiring urgent hearing assessments, …
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 »As Hungary trials all major Covid-19 vaccines, Budapest says Russia’s Sputnik V doing well in initial safety & efficacy analysis
The statistics, showing how many recipients were infected with Covid-19 or died from the virus following vaccination, were released on Sunday by Viktor Orban’s administration. It came as a response to the criticism surrounding the vaccination campaign, which the Orban government has labeled an “anti-vaccination” effort by leftist opponents. Notably, …
Read More »World’s 1st ORAL Covid-19 vaccine could soon begin human trials
The trailblazing drug, called Oravax, is being developed by Israeli-American Oramed Pharmaceuticals and India-based Premas Biotech. The two companies have teamed up to create Oravax Medical Inc., which hopes to combine Oramed’s oral delivery technology with Premas’ vaccine expertise to create a new method of inoculation against Covid-19. A pilot …
Read More »Pfizer, BioNTech launch global trials of their Covid-19 vaccine in pregnant women
Healthy pregnant women in the US have already received their first shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as part of the research, the companies announced on Thursday. They’ll soon be joined by fellow test subjects in Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, South Africa, the UK and Spain. Women aged 18 and …
Read More »‘Our people won’t be a testing device’: Tehran bans trials of foreign vaccines on Iranians
“Foreign companies wanted to give us vaccines so they would be tested on the Iranian people. But the health ministry prevented it,” Rouhani told state TV, without naming the producers that tried contacting the government in Tehran. The Iranian authorities will purchase foreign vaccines – without naming them – that …
Read More »98.5% success rate: Just 273 of over 20,000 volunteers for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine trials have subsequently caught Covid-19
Speaking to a local TV channel, Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova told reporters that the world’s first registered Covid-19 vaccine is performing well, successfully inoculating 98.5% of recipients who had received both the first and second parts of the formula. “To date, more than 20,000 people have received both doses …
Read More »TASS: the trials of hypersonic missile “Zircon” will be held until the end of 2019
TASS: the trials of hypersonic missile “Zircon” will be held until the end of 2019 in the White sea Regular tests of new hypersonic anti-ship missiles “Zircon” will be held on the sea polygon of the Northern fleet before the end of 2019. It is reported TASS citing a …
Read More »Armored artillery boats: trials in Odessa. Video
Four small armored artillery boats of the Ukrainian Navy went to sea for trials. Four small armored artillery boats of the Naval forces (naval forces) of Ukraine went to sea for trials. Military to assess how the court acting in the sea, and to work out the interaction of multiple …
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