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Gokhan Saricam made an immediate impact in the UFC heavyweight division.In his first trip to the octagon, Saricam walked out with a victory after scoring an impressive knockout of the returning Tanner Boser on the UFC Winnipeg preliminary card Saturday.Watch Saricam’s big finish below.Saricam, best known for a seven-fight run with Bellator, was the aggressor from the start, mixing striking with wrestling to pressure Boser. Though he failed to take Boser down, Saricam was doing plenty of damage with his punches and had a healthy lead on the scorecards going into Round 2.The Turkish standout stuck with the game plan…

The government of Australia has today, Saturday 18 April 2026, announced contracts with the Japanese government and shipbuilder Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for the purchase of three “Upgraded Mogami” general purpose frigates. The event is a first step in an overall effort under SEA 3000 to produce up to 11 new general purpose frigates. RAN expects to take delivery of the first frigate in 2029. Australian Department of Defence press release (link): The Albanese Government has taken a major step towards delivering a larger and more lethal surface combatant fleet with contracts now signed for Australia’s first three general purpose…

Márcio Barbosa made quite a debut at UFC Winnipeg after scoring a devastating one-punch knockout to flatten Dennis Bazukja in the featured prelim on Saturday night.Well known for his fight-finishing power, the Brazilian showed that off in a huge way after inviting Bazukja to stand and trade with him. He paid for that decision after Barbosa uncorked a hellacious left hook that landed clean and sent Bazukja crashing to the canvas in a heap.The referee immediately jumped in to stop the fight with the end coming at just 1:20 into the opening round.“I visualized all of this,” Barbosa said after…

Aerospace and defense (A&D) organizations are under unprecedented pressure to innovate faster — without compromising mission assurance, security or trust. Soaring demand for rapidly deployable, technologically advanced defense capabilities is reshaping the innovation priorities of A&D organizations — a dynamic noted in Protiviti’s Aerospace and Defense Top Risks brief. As defense budgets rise and geopolitical tensions intensify, these organizations are seeing growth opportunities in digital engineering, AI-enabled systems, cyber resilience and advanced manufacturing. The challenge is no longer whether to innovate, but how to do so securely and responsibly at speed. Scaling innovation through speed, acquisitions and global demand Government…

Strength training works. Lift consistently, eat well, sleep enough, and your muscles respond quickly. You get stronger, your technique improves, and the numbers on the bar go up. It feels great. But there is a hidden bottleneck that many lifters overlook. Your tendons. Tendons connect muscle to bone and transfer force. They are the reason your strength actually moves weight. While muscles can adapt in a matter of weeks, tendons take much longer. This mismatch creates a problem. You may feel ready to lift heavier, but your tendons may not be ready to tolerate the load. What Tendons Actually Do…

NASHVILLE—When Army leaders talk about their new tiltrotor platform, the first thing they tout are its speed, range and load capacity, all eclipsing the UH-60 Black Hawk whose missions it’s destined to take over. But bringing the MV-75 Cheyenne II online will also force changes upon the service’s aviation community—including, perhaps, an entirely new aircraft just to refuel it.“Certainly, you’re not going to be able to take a conventional rotorcraft with an MV-75, but a fixed-wing can go with an MV-75,” Maj. Gen. Clair Gill, who leads the Army Aviation Center of Excellence, told reporters Thursday at the Army Aviation Warfighter…

The Agriculture Department told lawmakers on Thursday it is moving forward with various restructurings despite some bipartisan skepticism over the legality and wisdom of those moves.The overall USDA reorganization will help streamline a “runaway bureaucracy,” Secretary Brooke Rollins said in her prepared testimony before the House Appropriations Committee. The department is already selling buildings and relocating the headquarters of some of its components, she and other officials said Thursday, despite Congress placing roadblocks on various aspects of those changes.In a separate hearing, for example, U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the Trump administration is taking steps to prepare to…

PARIS — France is moving closer to a decision on its future rocket artillery system, with the country testing domestically developed weapons this month that will allow for a comparison with foreign systems in a few weeks’ time, the head of the country’s armaments agency said.The first tests of a French-developed rocket artillery system “went well” on Tuesday, with more testing planned for next week, Patrick Pailloux, the head of the Directorate General for Armament, said in a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday.Safran and MBDA are one of the teams working on a French-made rocket artillery system, with Thales and ArianeGroup…

NRAAM 26 – FLUX Defense FLUX Defense has introduced a new holster for their Raider 365 chassis which turns your SIG P365 into a PDW. In addition to the adjustable height options, they’ve now added adjustable retention to the Gen 2 holster. Get yours at fluxdefense.com/shop/gen2-holster-raider-365-ultralight. This entry was posted on Friday, April 17th, 2026 at 17:30 and is filed under Advertiser, Holsters, NRA. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

As part of a process started two years ago, the United States have now approved a German request for purchase of the AEGIS/SPY-6 AAW suite. Germany will purchase eight complete sets intended to fit out the future F127 AAW combatants. Official Release by US State Department “The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Germany to Integrated Combat System, Supporting Equipment, and Support (sic). The estimated total cost is $11.9 billion. The Government of Germany has requested to buy eight (8) shipsets of AEGIS-based Integrated Combat System (ICS) MK…