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Motor Sich signs agreement to supply 14 engines for Turkish combat helicopters

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   Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS) has signed an agreement with the Ukrainian aircraft engine company Motor Sich to supply 14 engines for a Turkish heavy combat helicopter. According to Defense World, the first two engines will be delivered to TUSAS in September 2022. In general, deliveries of a certain batch will be completed in 2025.     "As we promised, we have completed another important and critical phase for our heavy helicopter, which will fly in 2023. We launched a project that was launched under the leadership of the President of the Defense Industry in 2019, with a new contract in 2 years. We hope that, as TAI (Turkish Aerospace Industries), we will take this ambitious step by 2023 in the 100th year of our Republic, ”said TUSA директор CEO, Professor Dr. Temel Kotil. The first flight of a Turkish heavy combat helicopter is scheduled for 2023. It will have about twice the takeoff weight of an ATTACK helicopter. Signing of an agreement between Turkish Aerospace Indu

Student makes paper from fallen leaves (video)

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   When Valentin Frechka was 19, he began working on a research project to turn fallen leaves into biodegradable paper. Three years later, the project advanced significantly, and it launched an initiative called Sheet Paper, producing paper bags and packaging from fallen leaf fiber. Since then, he has become a partner of the cardboard company and founded a company in Zhytomyr to reduce the impact of paper production on the environment, writes BuildingTECH.     “The idea is simple. Items that are considered waste can be reused or recycled. Leaves are wastes that need to be removed from parks because they release a lot of carbon when they rot. This is an opportunity for the buyer to use environmentally friendly packaging, ”says Frechka. Valentin wants his initiative to put an end to deforestation caused by paper production. He also notes that the waste of his products can be recycled and reused for various purposes. The first batch of Re-leaf Paper was made exclusively from leaves coll

Ukrainians sold their technology to Audi, earned 14 million euros - the history of Apostera

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     Audi e-tron Q4 came out with a unique technology - head-up navigation on the windshield. Besides Audi, only two other brands have similar technology - Mercedes and VW (VW and Skoda). The system in Audi helps drivers navigate the road in a completely new way and is technologically superior to the solutions in Mercedes and VW. Few people know that this system was developed in Ukraine. It all started at Luxoft Andrey Golubinsky, Viktor Sdobnikov and Olga Mirkina met at Luxoft, one of the largest outsourcing companies in Ukraine. All of them were involved in projects for car manufacturers. Today, software for the automotive industry is also made by other Ukrainian outsourcers, in particular GlobalLogic, EPAM, TietoEVRY (Infopulse). But the first embedded and in-vehicle infotainment systems began in Odessa Luxoft in 2006. “The first software for the foreign automotive industry in Ukraine was developed by Ukrainian engineers at Luxoft in 2006,” says Victor. "For example, in Odessa,