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Chris Weidman is something of an expert when it comes to broken legs.Not only can the former middleweight champion dish them out, he can also receive them. That’s why he expects former UFC two-division champion, Conor McGregor, to face his own share of mental hurdles ahead of the Irishman’s Octagon return, rumored for UFC 329 during International Fight Week this summer in Las Vegas.“He’s in the drug-testing pool,” Weidman said on UFC on Paramount’s YouTube channel. “For you to come off of stuff, get back in that drug-testing pool, you’d better fight. Otherwise, you’re just going to feel worse than…

General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger platform. Credit: © General Atomics. The US Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) PMA-281 has chosen General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) for the Collaborative Autonomy Mission Planning and Debrief (CAMP) project. The project aims to enhance mission planning, autonomy workflows, and AI model management for autonomous combat platforms, with a government-backed demonstration planned as part of a 2026 Fleet exercise. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Among others, key goals of the CAMP project include extending NAVAIR’s Mission…

The U.S. Navy successfully demonstrated a new standoff strike weapon earlier this month with the aim of extending the strike range of carrier-based fighter aircraft.The munition, called the GBU-75 Joint Direct Attack Munition Long Range, or JDAM-LR, was operated from an F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter during testing at the Navy’s Point Mugu Sea Range, California. The JDAM-LR builds on the existing Joint Direct Attack Munition, a Boeing-developed guidance kit that converts unguided “dumb” bombs into precision-guided munitions. Standard JDAMs rely on a tail control system and GPS while functioning as gravity bombs with ranges of roughly 15 nautical miles, depending…

Global Times By Global Times Published: Apr 21, 2026 09:22 AM At a UN Security Council emergency briefing on Ukraine on Monday afternoon local time, China’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Sun Lei firmly rejected the US representative’s repetition of old narratives and dissemination of false allegations, the China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Tuesday. Sun clearly pointed out that any attempt to shift responsibility to China or to attack and smear China on the Ukraine issue is irresponsible and will not succeed, according to the CCTV report. In fact, since the outbreak of the crisis, it…

Two soldiers were injured after encountering a bear last week during a training event in Alaska, state wildlife officials said. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game in a statement said it is investigating what appeared to be “a defense attack by a bear recently emerged from a den,” that occurred in a remote area of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson during a land navigation exercise. The area has since been closed to recreational activity until the inquiry is complete.The soldiers sustained injuries but lived, the agency reported, attributing their survival to bear spray. The agency “will continue investigating the circumstances that…

Two Saildrone Spectre variants are built around different mission requirements. Credit: © Saildrone, Inc. Fincantieri Marine Group (FMG), the US subsidiary of Fincantieri, has been selected to construct Spectre, a new class of multi-mission uncrewed surface vessel (USV) developed by Saildrone. Construction is set to begin shortly in Wisconsin at the Fincantieri system of shipyards, with initial sea trials for the first vessel scheduled for early 2027. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Fincantieri CEO and managing director Pierroberto Folgiero said: “Spectre represents…

CAMBRIDGE BAY, Nunavut — Over the past three months, Canadian soldiers conducted a more than 5,000-kilometer snowmobile patrol in extreme Arctic conditions traveling from Inuvik, Northwest Territories, to Churchill, Manitoba, braving blizzards and minus-60 degree Celsius temperatures in military exercises designed to prepare for a foreign threat – and demonstrate Canada’s ability to take care of itself. That’s a tall order. The political climate has changed since U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated threats to make Canada an American state, take control of Greenland and withdraw from NATO, but the harsh realities of operating in Canada’s frozen north have not.“There are…

People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 10:52, April 21, 2026 TOKYO, April 21 (Xinhua) — The Japanese government officially revised “the three principles on transfer of defense equipment and technology” and their implementation guidelines on Tuesday to enable overseas sales of weapons, including those with lethal capabilities. The changes have been approved by the Cabinet and the National Security Council, Kyodo News reported. The revisions scrap rules that limit Japan’s defense equipment exports to five noncombat categories, namely rescue, transport, warning, surveillance, and minesweeping. Instead, defense equipment will be divided into “weapons” and “non-weapons” categories, based on whether they have lethal capability.…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) implemented the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) in 1999 to help improve the management of DoD civilian employees who contribute to DoD’s acquisition mission—both those who are formally members of the defense acquisition workforce and those who directly support them. Congress directed independent assessments of AcqDemo in 2012, 2016, and 2025, the third of which is the subject of this report. The current study used mixed methods and leveraged existing and new data sources to address 14 legislatively prescribed criteria, covering such issues as what flexibilities are available within AcqDemo, who is…

Both Labour and Conservative politicians have framed small-boat refugees as threats, citing war metaphors, security concerns, and inauthenticity of their refugee claims.