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Leading sovereign cloud collaboration software provider Kahootz supports Anduril UK to enable secure team collaboration and communication 23 April 2026, Wallingford: Kahootz, the leading British provider of secure cloud collaboration platforms, has today announced that Anduril UK will use Kahootz’s platform to support the company’s rapid expansion. Kahootz provides specialist MOD-assured, multi-classification information and data storage and sharing software to Anduril UK. This collaboration will reinforce supply chain resilience amongst British SMEs and ensure that Anduril UK can accelerate delivery across key projects and activities amidst a rapidly evolving defence and security landscape. Kahootz is already trusted across government and was…

The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has presented Russia and China with a significant opportunity. Both Moscow and Beijing see the conflict as a chance to undermine U.S. interests in the Middle East and elsewhere. Both are keen to exploit the war to sap U.S. power, gain intelligence on U.S. military systems, and erode the U.S.-led order. Both see a wide variety of potential options for doing so, diplomatic and military, overt and covert. And so far, both countries are succeeding.The quagmire endured by Russian forces in Ukraine offers a model for the sorts of damage Moscow and Beijing hope to…

Rhys Machold is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. Through engagements with International Relations, political geography and urban studies, his research has focused on exploring regimes of power, violence and empire from a transnational perspective. He is author of Fabricating Homeland Security: Police Entanglements across India and Palestine/Israel (Stanford University Press, 2024) and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Security. Where do you see the most exciting research/debates happening in your field? My research sits at the intersection of a number of different fields and disciplines, namely International Relations (IR), critical security…

UFC has fully embraced AI in 2026.Despite earning more guaranteed money than ever, the promotion has been quick to embrace using AI to create content and promotional materials. Notably, the promotion debuted a new teaser video for the UFC White House card that was almost entirely AI-generated, which raised more than a few eyebrows amongst fans. If you don’t like this developing trend, UFC CEO Dana White has a simple message: shut the f—k up and watch the fights.Despite White’s dismissal, it’s not only fans who dislike the increased AI presence. Renato Moicano — who just picked up a one-sided…

MAS and Lockheed Martin agree to establish an F-35 depot in Canada. Credit: © L3Harris Technologies, Inc. MAS, a L3Harris Technologies company, has entered into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to create a collaborative framework for setting up an F-35 Air Vehicle Depot in Canada. This move follows the Canadian government’s selection of MAS as a strategic sustainment partner for the country’s CF-35 programme. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Under the terms of the new framework, the two companies will form a…

On April 22, 2026, Türkiye’s Roketsan signed a contract with Malaysia’s Ministry of Defence on providing Atmaca anti-ship missiles at the DSA 2026 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. The contract was signed to arm Malaysia’s Littoral Mission Ships, which are now under construction in Istanbul, with new-generation surface-to-surface missiles. Although the parties did not reveal the full scope of the deal, Naval News understands that it includes 24 ATMACA missiles valued at €79.5 million, or about RM369.2 million. Malaysia’s Ministry of Defence declined to provide more information on the deal. Signing ceremony in Kuala Lumpur (Credit: Roketsan) Malaysia signed a contract…

The Trump administration is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo to resettle 1,100 Afghans who have been stranded in Qatar awaiting U.S. visas, according to an advocacy organization that works on their behalf.The discussions underscore the legal hurdles facing Afghans who fled the Taliban after U.S. immigrant visa processing for Afghan nationals was effectively halted, leaving them in limbo more than four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul.Shawn VanDiver, founder and president of #AfghanEvac, a coalition of veterans and advocacy groups, told Reuters that U.S. officials had briefed him about the plan to resettle the Afghans in…

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Unveiled to an international audience at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition in Malaysia, China’s Feilong‑60A (FL‑60A) loitering munition marks a decisive evolution in how rocket artillery can sense, decide, and strike, turning a traditional multiple rocket launcher into a networked, semi‑autonomous precision‑fires system. Developed by Norinco and paired with the SR‑5 multiple launch rocket system, the Feilong‑60A is designed to bridge the gap between classic tube or rocket artillery and high‑end unmanned combat air systems, by embedding reconnaissance, target discrimination and terminal attack into a single missile‑like air vehicle. For experts following the global diffusion of loitering munitions, it…

As private-sector investment in defense-technology research rises, the Navy’s chief science office is refocusing its efforts on areas that companies are ignoring, but that will be relevant 15 years into the future, the head of the Office of Naval Research says.“It’s our goal to actually help folks see not just what the Navy needs now, but what the Navy will need in the next three” future years defense program, or FYDP, cycles, Rachel Riley, who heads the office, told the audience at the Sea-Air-Space symposium Tuesday. “What we’re trying to identify is: what are the things that industry cannot or…