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Credit: L3HarrisDefense Feeds, Nashville – The U.S. Army faces a stark reality in the Pacific: current Apache and Black Hawk helicopters lack the range to engage modern threats effectively. L3Harris is pitching a solution that fundamentally reshapes rotary-wing aviation.The company’s Wolf Pack cruise missiles Apache integration extends strike capability from single-digit kilometers to hundreds of kilometers, transforming platforms built for close-range support into multi-domain strike systems.At the Army Aviation Association summit this week, L3Harris’s strategy director, explained the core problem. Modern helicopters operate in contested airspace filled with advanced air defenses and distributed threats. Traditional weapons systems like the Hellfire…

Patria TRACKX all-terrain tracked vehicle. Credit: Patria. The European Commission (EC) has approved funding for the third phase of the FAMOUS (European Future Highly Mobile Augmented Armoured Systems) project undertaken by a defence industry consortium led by Patria. The approval, granted on 15 April 2026, will see the project proceed under the European Defence Fund (EDF), with the EU contributing €79m ($92m) towards a total project budget of €115m. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Finland remains the lead nation on the programme,…

Credit: USNDefense Feeds, Arlington – The U.S. Navy has launched a dedicated effort to field affordable hypersonic strike capability across its surface fleet.The service unveiled its Flight Advancement of Structures for Hypersonics program this week, aiming to prove “surface-launched, tactical-range, hypersonic strike capability” that can be fielded in Mark 41 VLS cells and Virginia-class Payload Module cells.The U.S. Navy Mk 41 hypersonic weapons initiative represents the service’s first dedicated effort to field tactical-range hypersonic strike systems on surface ships since the SM-6 Block IB program paused last year.The FLASH program takes a fundamentally different approach than previous hypersonic initiatives. Rather…

People’s Daily Online (Xinhua) 09:23, April 20, 2026 TEHRAN, April 20 (Xinhua) — Iran’s top joint military command said on Monday that Iran will soon respond to “armed maritime piracy” by the U.S. military, according to media reports. Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters warned Iran will “soon respond” to U.S. “armed maritime piracy” after American forces fired on an Iranian commercial vessel in the Gulf of Oman, disabled its navigation system, and boarded it with armed commandos, according to Press TV. In response, Iran carried out drone attacks on U.S. warships, causing the U.S. forces to retreat, according to state-run…

TO: Technology policy strategists FROM: Samantha Wong, Ginger Matchett, Peter Engelke DATE: April 17, 2026 SUBJECT: A US tech agenda focused on Latin America to outcompete the People’s Republic of China In November 2025, the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and Global China Hub convened a private, in-person workshop in Bogotá to examine how Colombian—and more broadly Latin American—stakeholders perceive US and Chinese approaches to emerging technologies within the region’s ecosystem. The discussion brought together experts from the tech sector, think tanks, and academia, as well as high-level government officials to assess Colombia’s key priorities in the…

Picture this: a battlefield where distance stops mattering. Troops deploy hundreds of miles faster than expected, missions unfold before the enemy even realizes what’s happening, and helicopters, well, they start to feel a bit… outdated. That’s exactly the kind of shift the Bell MV-75 Cheyenne II is built to deliver.The MV-75, developed by Bell Textron, isn’t just another military aircraft, it’s a rethinking of how air assault works. At first glance, it looks like something caught between a helicopter and an airplane. That’s because it is.This tiltrotor design allows it to take off vertically like a helicopter, then tilt its…

In May 2025 I was assigned to the core team that planned the consolidation of three Army commands—Army North, Army South, and Forces Command—and the establishment of the new Army Western Hemisphere Command. As we worked through the command’s concept, we came up with something of an elevator pitch, telling senior leaders and stakeholders that the command would “mind the GAPP”—from Greenland to Attu, from the polar bears to the penguins. A new command would take on the responsibility of three separate, major commands, as well as take responsibility for the Army’s role in securing this vast area of responsibility.…

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April 17, 2026 Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Continuing a 80-year-long Air Force tradition initiated by Gen. Jimmy Doolittle and his fellow Raiders in 1946, the Air & Space Forces Association celebrates each anniversary of the April 18, 1942, raid on Imperial Japan. This year’s celebration took place on April 17, 2026, simultaneously with toasts sponsored by Air Force and Space Force units, AFA Chapters, and AFA members around the world. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs…

Rafael Barbosa challenged the odds by returning to mixed martial arts cage after exams detected brain aneurysms days before the biggest fight of his life, and now he walks around with the Pancrase title over his shoulder. That seemed impossible when Barbosa was forced off the LFA title fight with Jonas Bilharinho in March 2022 due to a health scare. In fact, it was unclear at the time whether or not he would be able to ever fight again.“It was a very delicate moment where I felt like I had no ground to stand on,” Barbosa told MMA Fighting. “I…