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In August 2025, residents of Washington, D.C., awoke to a sight familiar in much of Latin America but rare in the United States: uniformed military troops patrolling city streets as part of a federally directed campaign against crime. Although violent crime in the country’s capital had fallen that January to its lowest point in over 30 years, on August 11 President Donald Trump signed an executive order that declared a “crime emergency” in the city, arguing that extraordinary measures were necessary to restore control. But the subsequent deployment of the National Guard—a military reserve force that can serve at both…

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama — The U.S. Army’s Apache attack helicopter AH-64 broke new ground by firing 30mm proximity ammunition at drones in air-to-air combat during a December exercise in Yuma, Arizona, according to the service.The live fire test saw Apache pilots engage drones flying on ranges at Yuma Proving Ground using the 30x113mm XM1225 Aviation Proximity Explosive, called APEX.The APEX rounds have proximity fuzes that cause them to detonate when they close in on a target, releasing a wide radius of blast fragments.The 30mm rounds are designed to be fired at targets requiring precision to hit, such as small boats, drones…

Terry Gerton All right, this is a short week and both chambers are on recess. So let’s focus on last week. Last week we ran out of funding for the Department of Homeland Security, but not really. So, tell us where we actually are and what’s going on with the conversations. Loren Duggan Homeland Security’s funding bill was the last of the 12 that hadn’t been finalized. It was operating under a two week continuing resolution and those two weeks came to an end without an agreement on any sort of restraints or restrictions on immigration enforcement. Without that, there…

Mittler Report Verlag, which also publishes Soldat & Technik, is a cooperation partner for this year’s Enforce Tac, Germany’s leading trade fair for internal and external security in Nuremberg. In addition to producing the official trade fair magazine for the event, taking place from February 23–25, the publisher’s Defence Career platform is collaborating with Enforce Tac’s Jobzone. The goal of both partners is to help address the urgent need for skilled professionals in Germany’s rapidly growing security and defence industry. Defence Career will be present both physically within the Jobzone exhibition space and online. The Enforce Tac Jobzone gives young…

Space is a critical domain for US national security, and African nations will play a pivotal role in defining space competition between the United States and China. The United States is sorely underinvested in this area; China is not. But the United States can secure its interests in space through creative, modest investment across multiple sectors of African economies. US space access and cooperation in Africa was once comprehensive. Now it’s virtually nil. From 1980 to 1991, Somaliland was an alternate landing site for the NASA space shuttle. NASA and the US Air Force maintained telemetry, tracking, Earth station, and…

Jon Jones recently revealed he has arthritis on his left hip, an injury serious enough to qualify him for a hip replacement, and that directly impacts Alex Pereira’s plans for the future.“Poatan” was targeting a heavyweight bout with “Bones” on the upcoming UFC event at the White House on June 14, but the revelation could mean that Jones no longer returns to action. However, the UFC light heavyweight champion doesn’t seem to think it could be a deal breaker.“I think every athlete has chronic injuries, serious injuries,” Pereira said in an interview with Valter Walker’s YouTube channel. “If a high-level…

Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) has inaugurated India’s first private-sector helicopter Final Assembly Line for the Airbus H125 at Vemagal in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. The H125 helicopter Final Assembly Line facility was inaugurated virtually by Shri Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, and Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of France. Present at the event in Vemagal were Shri Rajnath Singh, Hon’ble Defence Minister, Government of India, Ms Catherine Vautrin, Hon’ble Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs, Government of France, and Shri Kinjarapu Rammohan Naidu, Hon’ble Minister for Civil Aviation, Government of India. Also present were…

Initial Sentinel ICBM expected by early 2030, Air Force says. Service leaders say that the program will enter its engineering and manufacturing development phase this year, one year earlier than recently expected. The program was awarded to Northrop Grumman in 2020, but by 2024 had blown its budget and schedule so badly that the decision to enter the EMD phase was rescinded. The program has made “considerable progress over the last 12-18 months,” Air Force leaders said on Tuesday, including successful ground tests, solid rocket motor qualifications, and critical design reviews. Somewhat improbably, the service leaders said that the acceleration was partially…

India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh review indigenous gas turbine engines in Bengaluru on 16 February 2026. Credit: DRDO via X. India’s defence minister Rajnath Singh visited the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE), an arm of the government’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Singh warned that India has five to seven years to develop a sovereign engine During the exhibition, Singh observed a full afterburner engine test – a critical stepping stone that will increase the thrust of the Kaveri aero engine. India’s Aatmanirbharta, or self-reliance, campaign has been on an upward trajectory according to analytics company GlobalData, but the…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. General Atomics’ air-launched LongShot drone has made new progress toward its first flight with the completion of various tests on the ground, including a demonstration of its weapons release capabilities. LongShot, now also designated the X-68A, is set to be carried aloft first by an F-15 fighter. The goal of the program has been to explore how an uncrewed aircraft capable of firing air-to-air missiles could extend the reach and reduce the vulnerability of the launch platform, among other benefits. The U.S.…