Citing a report from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Mil.in.ua reported that Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine has spotted a Russian advanced radar station in Ukraine. A statement from the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), which is charged with monitoring the implementation of the so-called Minsk II agreement, which is supposed to help deescalate the conflict in Donbas, claims that the Russian Kasta-2E1 radar system has been spotted at the training range near n. Bugaivka (37 km on the southwest of Luhansk). An SMM mini-UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) spotted the Russian 51U6 Kasta-2E1 radar system on 15 February, according […]
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The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has reported that it had spotted a modern Russian Navodchik-2 ground drone control station for unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine. For the first time, Navodchik-2 ground control station and three boxes assessed as used for storing and transporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) were spotted at an airfield near non-government-controlled Luhansk city by SMM mini drone on 8 November. Earlier, Ukrainian officials said that the continuing Russian aggression against Ukraine and support of terrorist groups in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions is a crude violation of the fundamentals of international peace and security. – […]
Norwegian defense contractor Kongsberg hitting a major milestone by delivering the 20,000th Remote Weapon Station (RWS) from its PROTECTOR family of products. “KONGSBERG is proud to be the world’s leader in Remote Weapon Station technology and related technology integration, such as battlefield management & control of unmanned platforms. Our product’s maturity is far beyond just being a concept – the PROTECTOR has millions of hours of operational experience with militaries around the world”, says Pål Bratlie, Executive Vice President Land Systems, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS. The PROTECTOR RWS has been sold to 23 nations including Norway, United States, United Kingdom, […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106995/49/1069954969_0:160:3072:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_aa4229c029a2fe76fadd548c8812a36d.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202010141080765680-russias-ultrafast-manned-soyuz-ms-17-spacecraft-docks-to-international-space-station—video/ Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a carrier with Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft was launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur spaceport and is set to reach the International Space Station (ISS) in a record-breaking three hours, owing to its ultrafast two-orbit flight plan, a Sputnik correspondent reported. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Ryzhikov and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins, is due to dock at the ISS at 11:52 a.m. Moscow time (08:52 GMT). The crew is expected to deliver equipment that will allow to detect and eliminate an air leak, previously discovered in the Russian […]
Two Russians and one American have departed for a six-month stay on the International Space Station for the Soyuz MS-17 mission, the first to use a cutting-edge rendezvous scheme that will slash the journey to just three hours. The three travelers took off from a launch site in Kazakhstan just before noon local time on Wednesday, riding aboard a Soyuz spacecraft and expecting to dock at the ISS in a matter of hours under the new flight plan. The “ultrafast” rendezvous scheme requires only two orbits around Earth before the craft catches up with the station, cutting travel time in half […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/russia/202010121080749998-four-killed-three-injured-in-shooting-at-bus-station-in-russias-nizhny-novgorod-police-report/ An unidentified person fired at a scheduled bus in the town of Bor, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Russian media reports, citing police. According to the reports, four people were killed, and three more were wounded. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
The latest attack on the police station, located about nine miles southeast of central Paris in a housing estate area known for drug trafficking and deemed by authorities as a place to be restored, is said to be the third in two years. French authorities are investigating a Saturday night attack on a Paris police station by a group of about 40 people who used fireworks and metal bars, according to the the Paris Police Department. Paris police said that unidentified attackers targeted the police station in Champigny-sur-Marne, a district nine miles southeast of central Paris, by launching “mortar shots and […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010101080727561-fire-breaks-out-at-metro-station-in-tehran-reports-say/ A spokesman for the country’s emergency services announced that fire had erupted at the Ekbatan metro station in Tehran. At 7:45 this morning, a fire broke out in Tehran’s subway system at Ekbatan station; four ambulances were immediately dispatched to the site of the incident, Mojtaba Khaledi, spokesman for the country’s emergency services, said, according to Mehr News. “This subway line is now closed and is not accepting passengers. Firefighters and emergency services are on the scene, evacuating passengers from the metro station,” he said. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
In effort by Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, to reorganise its international businesses and hedge its bets on the online retail market, the US company has been in discussion with potential buyers to shift the enterprise to new hands. Two billionaire brothers from Blackburn will take majority of shares in Asda from Walmart in a £6.8 billion agreement announced on Friday, in a move that will bring the supermarket back under UK ownership for the first time in 20 years. The deal with the US-company concluded that Mohsin Issa, 49, and his brother 48-year old will take over the retail chain […]
Northrop Grumman is preparing their next Cygnus vehicle, the S.S. Kalpana Chawla, and its Antares rocket for the NG-14 mission to the International Space Station. The flight will transport 3,551 kg (7,829 lbs) of cargo and science to the outpost, enabling a flurry of research when the four Crew-1 astronauts arrive at the Station in early November. Liftoff of NG-14 is scheduled from Pad 0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (controlled by NASA’s Wallops range) in Virginia on Thursday, 1 October at 21:38 EDT (Friday, 2 October at 01:38 UTC). The mission First and foremost, NG-14 is tasked with delivering a […]
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has confirmed a shooting involving one of its officers, with local media reporting that one cop was shot after a man forced his way into a police station. The incident occurred at LAPD’s Harbor Station in San Pedro. Police have blocked off the parking lot around the station. City Councilmember Joe Buscaino said that a bullet had grazed an officer’s head during the attack. The officer has been transported to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive the wound, he added. #BREAKING: CBS2/KCAL9 is learning that an LAPD officer was shot and there’s currently […]
An officer has been shot dead inside a police station in Croydon after their colleagues failed to find a gun hidden on a recently-arrested suspect who then attempted to take their own life. The incident happened at approximately 02:15 AM local time at the Croydon Custody Centre in Windmill Lane. The 23-year-old suspect had been arrested moments prior to the shooting. The stricken officer was treated by colleagues and paramedics at the scene before he was transferred via air ambulance hospital where he died a short time later. The suspect turned the gun on himself and remains in critical condition in […]
A screen grab from a security camera video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shows a gunman walking up to sheriff’s deputies and opening fire without warning or provocation in Compton, Calif., on Sept. 12. AP hide caption toggle caption AP A screen grab from a security camera video released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shows a gunman walking up to sheriff’s deputies and opening fire without warning or provocation in Compton, Calif., on Sept. 12. AP Two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies were shot Saturday near a train station. Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the incident […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/09/0a/1080417773_0:2:3638:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_1799e3ab9054613f28b458caf3786722.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/photo/202009101080418116-futuristic-design-of-moscows-new-metro-station-by-zaha-hadid-architects/ The Moscow metro is one of the most distinctive places in the Russian capital. Once built to fulfil practical aims, including as a bomb shelter, the Moscow metro has turned into a tourist attraction flaunting its architecture, design and sculpture. A consortium led by Zaha Hadid Architects Ltd that also includes A-project (Moscow), Arup Lighting (London), Systematica s.l.r (Milan) has developed a concept for one of Moscow’s new metro stations Klenovy Bulvar (Maple Avenue). The authors of the project said that they wanted the new station to be elegant, light, modern, simple and with […]
Scores of demonstrators have gathered at a Washington, DC police station to protest the death of another young black man at the hands of officers, reportedly shot after brandishing a firearm during a foot chase. More than 100 people congregated outside of the DC Metro Police Department’s 7th district station on Wednesday night following the police shooting of Deon Kay, 18, who later died of his injuries. Videos that circulated on social media captured the tense atmosphere outside the police station, including a brief scuffle with officers. Demonstration with over 100 people outside MPD’s 7th district station in DC after an […]
A robotic arm places a container with three panels of bacteria outside the International Space Station. ( JAXA/NASA) Could Life Travel Between Planets? Microbiologists have spent decades studying extremophiles, organisms that endure extreme conditions, to tug at the mysterious threads of how life blossomed on Earth. https://t.co/NHqzQXUhr9 — Smithsonian Magazine (@SmithsonianMag) August 26, 2020 Health Editor’s Note: A bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans, can survive three years and perhaps more in space. Before choosing this particular bacterium for the experiment, the bacterium was hit with types of assaults that it would experience while in space. These included high levels of radiation, vaccum-like pressures, […]
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Delhi Metro – the city’s metropolitan transport services – will be opened to passengers on 7 September after over five months of suspension during the national lockdown. New Delhi has decided to relax the lockdown guidelines for the fourth time from 1 September. As the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation was preparing to re-open its passenger services after a gap of over five months, a four-foot-long venomous cobra emerged from a station in south Delhi. The metro authorities immediately alerted Wildlife SOS, a voluntary organisation engaged in wildlife conservation, which rescued the snake and released it into its […]
Police officers in Lafayette, Louisiana have shot and killed a man who resisted arrest and tried to walk into a gas station store ‘armed with a knife’, triggering a new wave of outrage over police brutality and ‘systemic racism.’ Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call, involving a man with a knife at a Shell gas station around 8pm Friday. When they tried to apprehend the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin, he allegedly ignored repeated orders to surrender as well as several taser shots fired at him. The disturbing incident was captured by a bystander in a video […]
A “higher-than-normal” rate of leaking air has been detected aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The crew will now spend the weekend trying to isolate and fix the issue. The minor leak was first revealed by NASA on Thursday. The rate of leaking air is still within “segment specifications” and there’s no immediate danger to the station or its crew, the agency stressed. Over the weekend, all segments of the ISS will be isolated with hatches closed, while the crew will temporarily relocate to Russian habitat module. “The test should determine which module is experiencing a higher-than-normal leak rate. The US […]
SpaceChain said the test advances its dreams of building a decentralized blockchain infrastructure in space. Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106041/52/1060415246_0:160:3072:1888_1200x675_80_0_0_31e14247b6ba2d17a0149871de943ccc.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/latam/202008041080051448-grenades-thrown-at-police-station-in-northeastern-colombia—reports/ BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) – A grenade attack on a police station was carried out by unknown individuals in northeastern Colombia, the Colombian La FM radio reports. The attack occurred on Monday in the municipality of Tibu in the department of Norte de Santander. La FM said unknown individuals approached a local police station on motorcycles and threw two grenades. According to the radio station, nobody was injured in the attack. On Saturday, a grenade attack was carried out in the city hall of Buenaventura, Colombia’s largest port city. Two men on a motorcycle threw […]
A local CBS affiliate in Augusta, Ga., decided to test out how voting by mail works. “We’re less than 100 days until the November election, and many Americans are expecting to vote by mail for the first time because of the pandemic,” WRDW-TV wrote. One thing is clear: You need to give it even more time than officials might recommend to get your ballot through the mail system. How long might it take for that vote to actually arrive and be counted? TRENDING: President Trump Suggests Delaying Election Until Americans Can Vote in Person CBS News decided to test it, sending […]
Rioters in Oakland, California, set fire to the Alameda County Superior Courthouse and attacked the police station. Hundreds of people were in the streets of Oakland in solidarity with the rioters in Portland, who have been out in force for nearly 60 days straight. Small blaze set inside Alameda county courthouse. #oaklandprotest You may not use this video for credit. All videos for Associated Press pic.twitter.com/TKmDADYsod — Christian Monterrosa (@chrismatography) July 26, 2020 TRENDING: Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, Protester Shoots Fellow Protesters While Trying to Shoot Driver (VIDEO) “Some within the crowd of 100s of demonstrators […]
A courthouse was torched and a police station vandalized during a large protest in Oakland, California. The violence comes as several other cities across the US were hit by rioting and chaotic demonstrations. Oakland Police said that “agitators” had started a blaze inside the Alameda County Superior Courthouse on Saturday night. A video shows a fire raging inside the building. Earlier in the evening, protesters attacked a police station, with reports saying they broke windows and painted graffiti on the building. Others shot fireworks and pointed lasers at officers and helicopters monitoring the situation. Oakland police later shared photographs of the […]
The Russian Federation’s state-owned space corporation, Roscosmos, is preparing to launch their next resupply mission to the International Space Station. The supply craft, Progress MS-15, is scheduled to launch at 14:26:22 UTC, or 10:26:22 EDT on Thursday, 23 July from Site No. 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. The Progress MS-15 spacecraft will resupply the Expedition 63 crew with supplies and consumables as well as deliver new equipment to help trace the source of elevated benzene levels in the Station’s air. The real-time air quality monitoring equipment launching on Progress MS-15 will “continue work to isolate the source causing higher than […]
Spacecraft builder Sierra Nevada Corporation has announced that it was selected to build a future autonomous space station. The contract award from Pentagon enables the company to repurpose SNC’s Shooting Star transport vehicle as a proposed commercial solution for an Unmanned Orbital Outpost – essentially a scalable, autonomous space station for experiments and logistics demonstrations – by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). In particular, SNC’s Shooting Star transport vehicle serves as the core structure for the proposed design. The versatility of the Dream Chaser spaceplane and Shooting Star technologies and subsystems allow for greater flexibility and modularity both internally and externally […]
Abdikareem Hassan 32-year-old Abdikareem Hassan of Portland, Maine was arrested and charged in connection with a drive-by shooting attack on a police station on July 5th. Hassan was arrested on the night of the shooting and according to the criminal complaint, he was being uncooperative and assaulted a police officer and an FBI special agent. Hassan was charged with: Assault on a police officer Two counts of refusal to submit to arrest or detention Criminal mischief Federal crime for assault on a federal officer TRENDING: BREAKING: Former Missouri Governor Eric Greitens and Friend Rush to Perform Life-Saving Measures on Shooting Victims […]
A 2 July blast at the Iranian Natanz nuclear power plant significantly damaged the above-ground part of the building. Against this background, reports emerged, citing unnamed Iranian officials, suggesting that Israel was behind behind the incident. Israel is responsible for the explosion at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site, by means of a “powerful bomb”, The New York Times reported, citing an unnamed source described as a Middle East intelligence official. According to the Nytimes.com source, the incident is not connected with other explosions that took place in Iran earlier, in particular a blast near Tehran’s Parchin military complex, which some reports have suggested is […]
The first power-generating unit of the Wudongde Hydropower Station in China has been successfully put into operation on Monday. Wudongde is the world’s seventh-biggest hydroelectric power plant, and the fourth largest in China. The launch ceremony was attended by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Dubbed the ‘smartest’ hydropower station in the world, it is located on the border of the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in southwest China. The station has been constructed using cutting-edge intelligent technologies, including real-time temperature monitoring and advanced grouting equipment. Thermometers and cooling pipes have been embedded in the concrete to detect its temperature in real time. The […]
Canada is marching forward with its international partners to establish a permanent research installation near the Moon, the Lunar Gateway. As it did for the Shuttle and Station programs before, the Canadian Space Agency, via a partnership with MacDonald, Dettwiler, and Associates, Inc., will build the next-generation robotic system: Canadarm3. This smart robotic system will be Canada’s contribution to the US-led Lunar Gateway station for the Artemis Program, the next major international collaboration in human space exploration — which forms the cornerstone of Canadian space strategy. “Our commitment to contribute Canadarm3 to the Lunar Gateway will generate high-quality jobs and economic […]
The communist agitators in Portland once again took to the streets to protest whatever the outrage-of-the-week is, and again tried to copy-cat Seattle by setting up an “autonomous zone.” They tried that last week near vichy “mayor” Ted Wheeler’s apartment, but the police actually did their job and broke up the party. This time, the protesters targeted Portland police’s north precinct. They did all their usual stuff, such as tagging the police building, setting up pallets and barricades, and lighting random stuff on fire, before the police moved in and actually did their job for the second time in a week, […]
The U.S. Navy’s first operational CMV-22B tilt-rotor aircraft, the latest variant in Osprey family, assigned to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30 arrived at Naval Air Station North Island. The new aircraft is designed to replace ageing C-2 Greyhound carrier onboard delivery aircraft. It is the only aircraft that can land on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with the F-35C engine power module safely secured inside its fuselage and provide roll-on/roll-off delivery. Expanded sponsons increase fuel capacity and enable the CMV-22B to provide enhanced logistical capability anywhere in the world. Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30 was established in late […]
Aboard the International Space Station, Chris Cassidy and Bob Behnken are preparing for two spacewalks that will finish a multi-year battery replacement operation outside the ISS. The new batteries will increase the outpost’s overall electrical efficiency and aid Station science utilization, which recently allowed scientists to create the fifth element of matter, the Bose-Einstein condensate, for the first time in space. Battery replacement: Since the successful launch of the Crew Dragon Endeavour with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, the crew are settling in to life on the Station. Behnken in particular is preparing with Chris Cassidy for two Extravehicular […]
Several police officers have been wounded during a manhunt for a suspect in California, with a gunman engaging police in a firefight after shooting a sheriff’s deputy in the face, leaving him gravely injured. The search began after a man opened fire on a police station in Paso Robles on Wednesday, striking sheriff’s deputy Nicholas Dreyfus in the face, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. After searching for more than 24 hours, the suspect – identified by police as Mason James Lira, 26 – was located, with police setting up a perimeter around the area and warning residents […]
After police in Seattle, Washington retreated from the Capitol Hill neighborhood, protesters took over the abandoned ‘regime’ precinct and erected barricades to mark an ‘autonomous zone’ for several blocks around it. Six blocks of downtown Seattle have been declared the ‘Free Capitol Hill Zone’ or ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’ (CHAZ), according to area activists that have taken control of Seattle PD’s East Precinct, on 12th Avenue and E. Pine Street. Journalist Julio Rosas tweeted out photos from the ‘Zone,’ including flyers demanding that Seattle PD be defunded, and declaring that police “will always be racist because capitalism requires inequality.” I’m outside […]
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station ahead of docking Sunday. NASA / NASA TV hide caption toggle caption NASA / NASA TV SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule approaches the International Space Station ahead of docking Sunday. NASA / NASA TV Two NASA astronauts have arrived at the International Space Station, 19 hours after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken made the trip on a private space vehicle designed, built and launched by SpaceX. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule docked with the station at 10:17 a.m. ET while flying over the […]
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D) lashed out at President Trump in an overnight press conference on the looting and burning of his city by protesters and Trump’s threat to bring in the national guard to save the city of Frey won’t. Frey told reporters it was his decision Thursday night to have police officers abandon the 3rd Precinct police station that was taken over by protesters who looted and burned the building. Wednesday night protesters rioted, looted and torched several businesses and buildings while protesting the death in police custody on Monday of George Floyd. TRENDING: “What They Are Doing Is […]
MINNEAPOLIS—Protesters demanding action over the death of 46-year-old George Floyd took over the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct late Thursday and set the building ablaze. Video from the scene showed demonstrators chanting “I can’t breathe” and cheering as the building was breached, with alarms blaring in the background. “This is 400 years of anger,” one protester, Justin Galbraith, told The Daily Beast as the flames sent smoke up into the sky. Others in the crowd echoed that sentiment. “There are so many innocent lives lost by the police. We protest peacefully and there is no accountability. So this happens,” demonstrator Cecilia […]
Precinct is down pic.twitter.com/LCs90UdF2o — Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) May 29, 2020 It’s a war zone. Protestors and police clash. Fires everywhere. Chaos pic.twitter.com/juyx11rtZK — Sophia Narwitz (@SophNar0747) May 29, 2020 The State Patrol is here at 4th and Nicollet pic.twitter.com/dtf2D8O9wN — Ricardo Lopez (@rljourno) May 29, 2020 Source link
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has announced on Tuesday that the Canadian Army will equip the Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSV) with a newest generation remote weapon station. General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada and Kongsberg have signed a contract for delivery of the Protector Remote Weapon Stations (RWS) to the Canadian Army valued 500 MNOK. The PROTECTOR RWS will be integrated on Canada’s fleet of Armored Combat Support Vehicles. Canada signed their first Protector RWS contract in 2005 followed by additional contracts in 2012 and 2014. “We are very pleased to be chosen again as the supplier of Remote Weapon Stations to […]
Japan’s H-IIB rocket will make its final flight Thursday, launching the ninth and last H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) spacecraft to the International Space Station. Liftoff from the Tanegashima Space Centre is planned for an instantaneous window at 02:31:00 local time (17:31 UTC on Wednesday). The H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) was developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as part of its contribution to the International Space Station program. Like many Japanese spacecraft, it has two names, with its alternative name being Kounotori, or white stork. The HTV-9 or Kounotori 9 mission concludes a series of resupply missions to the International […]
NASA has laid out plans for their future utilization of the International Space Station (ISS) over the next decade, including upgrades scheduled to be conducted on the outpost in the near term, its future use as an analog for human exploration missions beyond Earth Orbit, and the commercial expansion to the orbital outpost. During the NASA Advisory Council meeting, Kirk Shireman, NASA’s head of the ISS program, delivered a presentation on the near and long-term future for the orbital outpost. In the near term, the Station should see the end of the drawn out battery replacement process. For over three years, […]