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NASHVILLE—The Army’s next-generation spy plane will begin flight tests this summer, then be delivered to the first units later this year—two years after the Army awarded Sierra Nevada Corporation $1 billion to turn its Bombarder 6500 business jet into an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform that will replace the Army’s legacy turboprop fleet.The service wants to combine the inherent range of the High Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System—HADES for short—with launched effects, Andrew Evans, the director of strategy and transformation in the Army’s headquarters intelligence office, told reporters Friday at the Army Aviation Warfighting Summit. A year ago, he said he…

Gilbert Burns isn’t worried about riling up the local fans ahead of his main event matchup with Mike Malott.The welterweights headline UFC Winnipeg on Saturday, and after the final faceoff at Friday’s ceremonial weigh-ins, Burns had a message for his Canadian opponent and his supporters.“Thank you, Canada,” Burns said. “Winnipeg is very nice, I have a lot of fun, but guess what? I’m going to smash your boy tomorrow.”Burns words were immediately met with boos from the fans, who will firmly be in the corner of Malott—who hails from Ontario—on Saturday night.Malott is just the third Canadian to headline an…

Vladimir Putin held a working meeting with Head of the Karachayevo-Circassian Republic Rashid Temrezov. April 16, 2026 13:40 The Kremlin, Moscow Rashid Temrezov briefed the President on the republic’s socioeconomic development, as well as the implementation of national projects and the President’s instructions on improving the quality of life in the republic. He said that the Year of Unity of the Peoples of Russia, declared in 2026, is known in the republic as the Year of Cultural and Spiritual Heritage of the Karachayevo-Circassian People. Rashid Temrezov reported in detail on the support provided to participants in the special military operation…

A UFC Hall of Famer believes Nate Diaz vs. Mike Perry will fall short of high expectations ahead of the fan-friendly clash. UFC Hall of Famer Ronda Rousey will return to Mixed Martial Arts for the first time in nearly 10 years when she faces off with Gina Carano next month in a Most Valuable Promotions main event. This will mark Rousey’s first MMA fight since suffering back-to-back UFC losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes. The card also features former UFC heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou’s MMA comeback against Philipe Lins, and an intriguing matchup between former UFC superstar Nate…

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Australia issued updates for two pivotal planning documents this week – its National Defence Strategy 2026 and Integrated Investment Program 2026 – while simultaneously promising a boost in defense spending.Defence Minister Richard Marles pledged defense accounts would receive an additional A$14 billion (US$10 billion) over the next four years, and an extra A$53 billion over the coming decade.The government is promising cumulative defense expenditure of A$887 billion over the coming decade. It also laid out an aim for defense spending to reach 3% of gross domestic product by 2033-34.This is the National Defence Strategy’s first revision…

The General Services Administration conducted staff cuts in 2025 without analyzing what skills it needed in order to fulfill its mission managing federal buildings, the top federal watchdog found in a new report, leaving the agency scrambling to address ensuing gaps in service. GSA’s Public Buildings Service oversees about 8,500 owned and leased government properties. As part of the Trump administration’s push to reduce the number of federal employees, the division went from more than 5,600 employees to approximately 3,100 over the course of 2025. The agency achieved these reductions mainly through voluntary separation incentives (such as the deferred resignation program) and…

In 1969, with the Cultural Revolution raging at home and tensions rising abroad, Chinese leader Mao Zedong instructed four elder military leaders to study the relationships between China and the world’s two superpowers. Using Mao’s theoretical framework of “contradictions,” which states that the struggle between opposing forces is what drives history forward, they posited that the contradiction between the United States and the Soviet Union was greater than that between China and the Soviet Union, which in turn was greater than that between China and the United States. In other words, the most powerful force shaping world politics was the…

Media release Thursday 16 April 2026 Prime Minister Anthony Albanese The Hon Anthony Albanese MP Prime Minister of Australia Senator the Hon Don Farrell Minister for Trade and Tourism Special Minister of State The Hon Chris Bowen MP Minister for Climate Change and Energy The Albanese Labor Government has secured approximately 100 million litres of additional diesel for Australians, with two shipments coming from Brunei and South Korea. This is the first of the expected shipments of fuel secured under the Government’s new Strategic Reserve powers. Under these new powers, Export Finance Australia (EFA) has partnered with Viva Energy to…

My coach Greg Jackson will not be coaching me on the White House fight for personal reasons,“ Hokit wrote on X. ”I don’t have a coach now … will the ring girls corner me please … tag them for me”Hokit is a massive favorite over “The Black Beast,” but could an upset be brewing here? Hokit isn’t going to be able to take much time off after absorbing a ton of punishment from Blaydes, and now he won’t have his main coach with him on fight night. That’s a risky recipe against the heaviest-handed man in UFC history, who will…

The Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower sustained a small fire on Tuesday while it was sidelined for maintenance. The carrier is currently at Naval Support Activity Portsmouth, Virginia, after arriving at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on Jan. 8 to begin planned incremental availability following a nine-month deployment.“Eight sailors were treated by ship’s medical and returned to full duty,” a Navy spokesperson told Military Times in an emailed statement.The small fire that occurred was immediately contained, the spokesperson said, and extinguished by ship and shipyard personnel.The Navy did not specify the cause of the fire.The Eisenhower “remains on track”…