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The M60A3 tank with 105mm rifled cannon makes up the majority of Taiwan’s tank fleet. Upgrade projects led by NCSIST have been investigated and pursued since 2023. (MND)Taiwan’s army is modernising it fleet of M60A3 main battle tanks (MBT). Local media reports suggest evaluation of M60A3 improvement configurations are ongoing, with tests scheduled for May.It is understood the Republic of China Army (ROCA) would like to see an upgrade for more than 440 M60A3s move forward, and with a completion target of 2028. The coming months should offer indications on the specifics of the upgrades, the number of tanks involved,…

Season 2 of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” wraps on Apple TV+ on May 1, and the show will spend ten episodes doing what Pentagon strategic planners have presumably never done: war-gaming a Kaiju event. The series is built around a covert government agency monitoring giant monsters called Titans. It stars father and son Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell as different-era versions of the same Army officer — a soldier’s soldier who spends decades watching the brass refuse to take a threat seriously until it’s too late.The story is fiction, obviously. But as anyone who’s sat through a joint readiness exercise…

This photo shows a Phorio software-defined radio with dual antenna installed on a KNDS Nerva micro-unmanned ground vehicle. (Gordon Arthur)KNDS internationally launched its Phorio radio solution at DSA 2026, with the Kuala Lumpur exhibition opening on 20 April. Phorio is specifically designed for use on uncrewed platforms such as unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) and drones.Joël Morillon, Deputy Managing Director at KNDS Robotics, told Asian Military Review that Phorio was developed with funding from the French Ministry of Defence (MoD) because current radios encounter difficulties and fragility in some unstructured environments and terrain.These communication problems reduce trust in the operational credibility…

Jorge Masvidal and Chael Sonnen have reignited their long-standing feud over the former BMF champ’s planned comeback. It’s been more than three years since Jorge Masvidal announced his retirement from Mixed Martial Arts following a loss at UFC 287. After a legendary career that included his BMF title win over Nate Diaz, Masvidal turned his attention towards fight promotion. But Masvidal envisions a return to the Octagon later this year, and was briefly linked to a potential return at the White House. UFC CEO Dana White recently confirmed that Masvidal and his team are in active talks to book the…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 23 April 2026 7:39 AM The United States has suspended arms deliveries to NATO ally Estonia as its aggression on Iran has put a major strain on US weapons stockpiles. Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur announced the news on Tuesday, saying that his American counterpart Pete Hegseth had told him in a phone call that the US would be suspending all arms deliveries to the Baltic state. According to Pevkur, Washington will no longer ship HIMARS light multiple rocket launcher ammunition and Javelin missiles to its NATO ally, which borders Russia. The US, in collaboration with…

Ari Emanuel, the chief executive officer at the UFC’s parent company TKO Group Holdings, saw a sizable increase in his salary from 2024 to 2025.In a new filing with the SEC to prepare for the annual shareholders’ meeting, Emanuel’s pay for 2025 was revealed alongside that of other key executives at TKO Group Holdings. In 2024, Emanuel took home just over $18 million, which was a dramatic drop from 2023 when he earned $64.9 million based on total compensation, including salary, bonuses, and stock.Emanuel rebounded in a big way for 2025, earning just over $67 million, which includes a $3…

China’s greatest technological ambition and its greatest political obsession are quietly destroying each other.The same censorship apparatus the Party built to control its people is now corrupting the AI systems its leaders depend on. The United States, by leaning into an open marketplace of information and ideas, will gain advantage as it takes a different path.AI is increasingly training newer, faster AI models. This typically involves scraping the internet for content and then loading it into datasets for new programs. The problem: online content used for training is increasingly generated by AI. As a result, each generation of technology drifts…

Imagine something the size of a football field slipping through the ocean… completely undetected. No engine roar. No wake. No warning. Just silence, and then, if it chooses, overwhelming force.That’s the reputation of Seawolf-class submarines. Not just another fleet asset, but a kind of underwater myth among naval engineers and defense analysts. These boats weren’t built for numbers. They were built for dominance.Here’s the strange part: only three of them exist.At a time when the U.S. Navy typically produces entire classes of ships in dozens, the Seawolf program stopped almost as soon as it began. Why? Cost, timing, and a…

Since at least 2021, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders have adopted a national security concept they call ‘total war’. In the CCP’s usage, total war is national mobilization to develop civilian institutional advantages that convert into warfighting capabilities, and it is implemented on the national level by the integrated national strategic system and capabilities (INSS&C). Leading CCP and PLA strategists also make clear that total war is intended to defeat the ‘strong enemy’ of the United States in long-term competition or, if necessary, military conflict. Total war has been elevated to the highest levels of China’s security policies and public…

When imagining how the U.S.-China relationship might devolve into war, experts often cite Taiwan as the most obvious flashpoint. In recent years, after all, China has escalated its campaign of coercion against the island democracy, lobbing missiles over it, staging a blockade during live-fire military exercises, and threatening catastrophic punishments against third countries that expand ties with Taipei. Although the United States does not have a defense treaty with Taiwan, Beijing’s aggression against the island—paired with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reported desire to be capable of invading by 2027—has prompted the U.S. military and policy community to accelerate steps that…