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The United Kingdom’s National Armaments Director Group has awarded a £879 million (approximately $1.1 billion) three-year contract to Boeing Defence UK to maintain and support the British Army’s AH-64E Apache attack helicopters and the Royal Air Force’s Chinook HC heavy-lift helicopters. The contract covers maintenance, technical services, logistical support, and — critically for the Apache […]

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. Army has given us our first glimpse at what the new MV-75A Cheyenne II tiltrotor will look like in its special operations configuration. The baseline MV-75A already has features specifically intended to simplify the process of converting it to meet the needs of the Army’s elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, better known as the Night Stalkers. Army Col. Roger Waleski, commander of the 160th, shared the rendering of the special operations-specific MV-75 during a presentation today at the Army…

Mike Perry is returning to MMA as Netflix moves into the mixed martial arts market, and the ‘King of Violence’ has one of his BKFC peers hotly discussing this looming Nate Diaz contest. The combatant in question is Doug Coltrane, who articulated these thoughts during a recent appearance on Bare Knuckle Bowker. This sentiment was expressed in the lead-up to Coltrane’s first-round finish over ex-UFC vet Maki Pitolo at BKFC Honolulu on April 11th. Around the time he was preparing to compete with David Mundell for the BKFC middleweight title, Coltrane targeted a Mike Perry callout if you were to…

White House budget director Russell Vought said on Wednesday he could not estimate the cost of the Iran war, as he defended President Donald Trump’s request for a massive $1.5 trillion annual military budget against bipartisan criticism from U.S. lawmakers who cited the Pentagon’s historic lack of financial accountability.“We’re not ready to come to you with a request. We’re still working on it. We’re working through to figure out what’s needed,” Vought told a hearing of the House of Representatives Budget Committee. “I don’t have a ballpark.”The cost of the war with Iran, which Trump began alongside Israel on February…

What if a simple, widely available supplement could actually slow the aging process itself? In a landmark clinical trial involving nearly 800 adults over age 70, researchers found that daily omega-3 supplementation, the same fish-oil compound most people buy off the shelf, was associated with a measurable slowdown in biological aging after three years, as gauged by next-generation DNA methylation clocks. On average, participants taking omega-3s had biological ages roughly three months younger than their chronological age, a statistically small but biologically significant shift that suggests even modest nutritional interventions can influence the pace of aging at the molecular level.…

Iran Press TV Tuesday, 14 April 2026 5:59 AM Iran has demanded compensation from five Arab nations for committing internationally wrongful acts by allowing their territories to be used by aggressors and in some cases directly participating in unlawful armed attacks against Iran. In a letter addressed to Secretary General António Guterres and Security Council President Jamal Fares Alrowaiei, Iran’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative Amir-Saeid Iravani rejected recent compensation demands from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Jordan and said that under the present circumstances, the named states cannot lawfully invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter (the right…

In Washington, great power competition has become the dominant frame for US foreign policy analysis, and there is a tendency to use it to interpret every major geopolitical event. So it is understandable that some have tried to frame the war in Iran as having a China angle. In this case, however, that framing is misleading. This war is not about China, and attempts to make it so obscure more than they clarify. China is not a decisive actor in this conflict. It did not shape the conditions that led to escalation, it is not a military participant, and it…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Army announced today that its next-generation multi-role vertical lift aircraft, the MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft, will carry the Native American name “Cheyenne II”. The announcement was made during the Army Aviation Association of America’s annual conference on April 15, 2026, where the MV-75 Mission Design Series was unveiled. The new platform represents a leap forward in technology and capability, combining speed, payload, and survivability in ways never before achieved in a single aircraft. Developed as FLRAA, the MV-75 Cheyenne II delivers pivotal aviation capabilities to the Joint Force, flying twice as far and…

Murphy Levesque is a high school senior in Connecticut. She co-founded Hidden Gem Animal Rescue in 2020, when she was 11 years old. It started with a one-eyed cat named One-Eye at the barn where Murphy took horseback riding lessons. One-Eye was two years old, missing an eye, and on her third litter of kittens.  Murphy and her riding trainer Logan trapped the kittens, got them veterinary care, and found them all homes. That was the spark. They kept going. Today, Hidden Gem Animal Rescue is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit operating across Connecticut and the Northeast, rescuing dogs and cats,…

Shihan Glaube Feitosa (born April 9, 1973) is a Brazilian former kickboxer and a Kyokushin full-contact karate practitioner who was competing in K-1. In 2005, Feitosa won K-1 World Grand Prix 2005 in the Las Vegas tournament and was a K-1 World Grand Prix in 2005 finalist. He has gone the distance with some of the top fighters of his time, such as Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky, Semmy Schilt, and Errol Zimmerman. An accomplished karate fighter, he was known for his use of the “question mark kick,” utilizing the technique in several knockout victories in his career. Feitosa also holds…