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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A collaboration between relative military newcomer Saildrone and defense contracting giants Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri has resulted in Spectre, a 170-foot drone boat capable of traveling nearly 35 miles per hour and optimized for anti-submarine warfare. Spectre can also come loaded for bear for a multitude of missions, with space for an optional payload of two Lockheed Mk 70 vertical launching system (VLS) containers. These are capable of slinging everything from Tomahawk cruise missiles to long-range SM-6s air defense and surface strike…

Lee Selby has some information available regarding his official bare knuckle boxing debut at BKB ‘Carnage In Cardiff’ in late-June. BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing dropped the news regarding former IBF featherweight world champ “Lightning” Lee Selby stepping into the BKB Mighty Trigon on Saturday, June 27th, 2026. This will emanate from at the Vindico Arena in Cardiff. BKB 55 ‘Carnage in Cardiff’ will see the Welsh warrior return to combat sports. The former world champion looks to carve out a path toward being a two sport titleholder as he chases BKB world title glory. Lee Selby held the IBF featherweight…

Surging bantamweight fighter Nikolija Milosevic believes her style combines the skills of three of the top fighters on the planet, and hopes to show the world that skill set in the hallowed UFC octagon.Since dropping a split decision in her pro debut in November 2023, the Serbian mixed martial artist has done nothing but impress: over her next eight fights, she has gone undefeated, finishing five opponents along the way. In her most recent fight, she handed Dina Osman her first career loss via unanimous decision at BRAVE CF 104 in February.When asked which fighters she likes to watch compete,…

Northrop Grumman has publicly detailed, for the first time, how work is divided between the United States and Japan in the co-development of the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI), a next-generation missile designed to defeat hypersonic threats. At a media briefing in Tokyo on April 22, the U.S. defense contractor presented a schematic outlining the allocation of key components between the two nations, providing concrete substance to earlier statements that the program is structured as a “50-50” partnership. While Japan’s Ministry of Defense had previously described the general framework of the U.S.-Japan workshare in Japanese, Northrop Grumman’s latest briefing offered a…

Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Apple pressed suppliers to curb emissions, save resources and expand clean power as part of a broader push for the tech company to become carbon neutral across its supply chain within the next four years, according to its 2026 Environmental Progress Report released April 16. In 2025, Apple and its direct suppliers saved billions of gallons of fresh water and added 20 gigawatts of renewable energy. They also redirected hundreds of thousands of metric tons of waste from landfills, the company reported.…

NASHVILLE—The Army thinks its Apache helicopters, developed a half-century ago to kill Soviet tanks, might offer a solution to enemy drones two or three orders of magnitude smaller.As the service races to mold a counter-drone strategy based on lessons from Ukraine and now Iran, it is testing AH-64s armed with rockets and proximity-fuzed shells against drones weighing over 50 pounds, officials said recently during the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit.The idea came straight from the force, Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, who heads the Army Aviation Center of Excellence, said  April 15. He credited Daniel York, a recently retired chief warrant officer-5 and…

News April 23, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems U.S. Army photo by Eric Kowal REDSTONE ARSENAL, Alabama. The U.S. Army tested a drone-delivered warhead designed to penetrate bunker targets during a live-fire demonstration at Redstone Arsenal in March, the Army announced in a statement. The system, called the bunker rupture and kinetic explosive round, was developed for use on a small uncrewed aerial system, the statement reads. According to the Army, the project was led by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center and Project Manager Close Combat Systems. The Army says the test followed…

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Global Times By Global Times Published: Apr 23, 2026 09:35 AM China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) on Thursday disclosed several cases of leaks involving industrial and supply chains, which included insider leaks in semiconductor technology, data theft, and the covert extraction of critical mineral information. The ministry warned that the security of industrial and supply chains is vital to national economic security and high-quality development and called for the establishment of a scientific and efficient protection system, CCTV News reported.According to a statement published by the MSS on its official WeChat account, a foreign non-ferrous metals company used its…

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new physical assessment designed to measure battlefield fitness for soldiers serving in combat roles, the service announced on Wednesday.The new Combat Field Test is designed to evaluate how soldiers perform under conditions that more closely resemble warfare on the modern battlefield, the Army said, launching a program that emphasizes strength, endurance and movement with loads.The test will also be age- and sex-neutral and scored on a pass/fail standard. The test begins with a one-mile run, followed by 30 dead-stop pushups, a 100-meter sprint, 16 lifts of a 40-pound sandbag onto a 65-inch platform…