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Rejected by KNDS, Leonardo teams up with Rheinmetall for new Italian tanks

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U.S. Army Spc. Sean Curl enters data into a new reconnaissance system during class held by the 1014th Sapper Company.

ROME — Germany’s Rheinmetall has signed an agreement with Italy’s Leonardo to discuss the development and construction of hundreds of new tanks and tracked vehicles for Italy, weeks after European giant KNDS canceled a similar deal with Leonardo. Rheinmetall and Leonardo signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Wednesday to establish a new 50:50 joint venture … Read more

Interstellar space clouds caused the ice ages, research suggests

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The Pleistocene Epoch – with its glaciers, woolly mammoths and Neanderthals – still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended just 12,000 years ago. Now a team of researchers proposes that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been cold due to a cloud in space that briefly removed … Read more