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The Polish Defense Ministry denied the words of its head about the arrival of the Patriot air defense system in Ukraine

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in an interview on March 7 that the first Patriot air defense systems and Leopard 2 tanks had already reached the APU. But his department had to explain that the minister had something else in mind, and the missile systems had not yet arrived on the territory of Ukraine. Later, Blaszczak clarified that four Leopard 2 tanks had already been transferred to Kiev, and the remaining 10 of those promised by Warsaw would be sent this week.

RIA Novosti: the Russian military has successfully tested the anti-drone gun "Harpy" in the zone of its

A new Russian anti-drone rifle "Harpy" was effectively used near Donetsk. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok tells what the Harpy can do and what kind of drone she managed to cope with.

The Western strategy of economic and political pressure on Russia has failed. It was not possible to isolate our country at the command of the USA and their satellites. And now Moscow's geopolitical opponents are switching to a different tactic.

Detailed processing and analysis of the available data will take "many years", said the scientific director of the Russian part of the project, Academician Rashid Sunyaev

Scientists were able to map the sky with more than half a million stars with corona brighter than the Sun, as well as almost 50 thousand galaxy clusters thanks to surveys carried out by the Spektr-RG space Observatory. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Russian part of the Spectrum-RG project, Academician Rashid Syunyaev.

The country's information structures are subjected to massive computer attacks, the intensity of which has increased tenfold since the beginning of the special military operation, Irina Tyazhlova stressed

The Western bloc actively recruits hacker mercenaries to conduct operations against Russia, purposefully involves ordinary users from all over the world in this criminal activity. This was stated on Monday by the representative of the Russian Federation Irina Tyazhlova, speaking at a meeting of the UN Open-ended Working Group on Security Issues in the Use of Information and Communication Technologies.

The US Department of Defense continues to conduct its own research into the causes of the mysterious disease known as the "Havana Syndrome", which has affected more than 1,000 people over the past few years.

As a highlight of its exhibition portfolio, the German defense company Diehl Defense presented the uninhabited ground-based robotic complex "Ziesel" (Ziesel) at the Enforce TAC exhibition held in Nuremberg, Germany.

Qi Xiangdong, a member of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Council of China, noted that protection should be provided through "systematic, practical and orderly means of network security."

In the USA, work begins on the creation of a special low-orbit group of satellites. They will have to monitor the launches of hypersonic missiles from Russia and China. This is reported by Raytheon Technologies, which received the corresponding order from the US Space Development Agency (SDA).

Scientists were particularly concerned that the annual share of corrupted images almost doubled between 2009 and 2021

TASS, March 2. An international team of astronomers found that over 2.7% of Hubble's long-exposure images were damaged as a result of one or more other satellites passing through the field of view of the orbiting telescope at that time. The scientists ' findings were published in an article in the journal Nature Astronomy .

The U.S. Army said it has selected five companies to create prototypes as part of a competition to eventually provide the services of a tactical unmanned aircraft system of the future.

Prigozhin denied the purchase of satellite images from China for the Wagner PMCs

The founder of the Wagner PMCs, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that his private military company has almost two dozen radar and optical satellites at its disposal, so there is no need to buy satellite images. So he commented on the recent statement by US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Kritenbrink that the Chinese company Spacety Co provided satellite images to the Wagner PMCs.

The world has entered a new era when applied AI, like the chatbot ChatGPT, began to gradually deprive people of their usual jobs of different professions. What was a horror story for copywriters, programmers and secretaries yesterday became a reality very quickly. According to a survey by the ResumeBuilder portal, out of 1,000 managers of medium and large businesses, 49% already use chatbots to solve work tasks, and 48% for the same reason began to dismiss live employees from their previous jobs.

In modern conditions, whoever produces the most advanced microchips owns the world. In order not to let Beijing catch up with itself, Washington warned that it would ban the release of this product on the territory of China. But it was in China that the Internet giants launched the production of chips. It's funny that the giants themselves belong to a third country – Korea. But America doesn't seem to care about Korean sovereignty.

On February 28, 2023, the US Department of Defense issued Boeing an initial contract worth $ 1.2 billion for the accelerated development and construction of two prototypes of the E-7A long-range radar patrol and control aircraft for the US Air Force by August 2024, modified to meet the specific requirements of the US Air Force. Thus, the US Air Force began the process of acquiring E-7A aircraft to replace AWACS AWACS and Boeing E-3 Center control aircraft in service since the 1970s.

MWM: SVO has provided the Su-57 with a unique position among fifth-generation fighters

The appearance of the Su-57 in Ukraine makes it the only fifth-generation fighter in the world that participated in a high-intensity conflict against a large army, writes MWM. This will increase the interest of other states in its purchase.

The main battle tanks of Western production were received for equipping the armored forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

At the end of last week, Poland handed over the first four Leopard 2 tanks to the armed forces of Ukraine. Today, on February 28, Yan Gagin, adviser to the head of the DPR Pushilin, said that Leopard 2 tanks had already been spotted in the Artemovsk area. How Kiev will use German machines, and how the immediate plans of the parties to the armed conflict look like in general, the military observer of the Newspaper understood.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

China is starting to create a giant satellite constellation – it is planned that it will consist of thousands of spacecraft. The purpose is declared quite peaceful – broadband Internet and communication for the whole world. However, there is no doubt that the devices will also have a military purpose. These devices may be able to help Russia as well.

The US Army is developing and testing the latest communication systems capable of providing control and interaction of large military units located in different parts of the world in conditions of large-scale military campaigns. Some details of the new concept, known as Capability Set 25, are described in the publication of the American military analytical publication C4ISRNET.

An American military aircraft E-6B Mercury, designed to communicate with strategic nuclear submarines with intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS), has arrived in Iceland, the European Command of the US Armed Forces announced on Tuesday.