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Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is coming later this year, and it seems alternate costumes are going to finally become more of a regular thing in Arc System Works fighting games. Marvel and ArcSys have now offered a better look at one of the special outfits players can get for Storm in Marvel Tokon. As we previously covered in our Marvel Tokon pre-order guide, the game’s Ultimate Edition comes packing five…

An artist’s impression of SSN-AUKUS. Credit: Crown copyright/UK Ministry of Defence. Rolls-Royce Submarines’ director for future programmes detailed the current and future stages of its reactor production for SSN AUKUS during UDT 2026 Seven reactors are currently being built in Derby besides the contractor’s completion of a critical design review for the power source Likewise, the company has doubled its manufacturing space to meet the “drumbeat” demand from the Australia and the UK Rolls-Royce has lately made efforts to extend and support the production of the nuclear propulsion capability powering the future nuclear-powered attack submarine, SSN AUKUS. The trilateral partnership…

14 apr 2026 – Fincantieri, through its Underwater Technology Hub, today delivered the multi-purpose support vessel “Tritone” to the Italian Navy at its Palermo shipyard. The vessel was designed to ensure maximum operational versatility, with specific reference to the underwater domain. The delivery ceremony was attended by Vice Admiral Vincenzo Montanaro, Italian Navy Logistic Command, Vice Admiral Cristiano Nervi NAVARM Director, and Gabriele Maria Cafaro, Executive Vice President Underwater Fincantieri. The extensive upgrade program undertaken on the “Tritone” at the Palermo shipyard has enhanced its operational capabilities and strengthened its integration with the Italian Navy’s national command system. The modular…

House Democrats on Monday suggested that the Office of Personnel Management has not been entirely forthcoming in responding to their oversight requests over the federal retirement backlog, which has ballooned during Trump’s second term to more than 50,000 pending cases.Last December, a group of House lawmakers led by Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., requested that the federal government’s dedicated HR agency provide information regarding delays within the federal retirement process impacting tens of thousands of former employees who left federal service last year. As of March 31, the retirement backlog sat at 55,681 pending cases, down from a peak of 65,237…

Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) The US Marine Corps on 2 April 2026 awarded follow-on contracts to General Dynamics Land Systems and Textron Systems to move forward with the next Rapid Prototyping phase of their competing Advanced Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) development. Each firm will prepare and delivery system variants for each of the variant configurations for the ARV-C4UAS (Command, Control, Communications, and Computers Unmanned Aerial System), ARV-30 (30mm Autocannon/Anti-armour), and ARV-LOG (Logistics) Pre-Production vehicles. These proto-types would be delivered in mid-2028 to support further test and evaluation toward supporting a production decision in late 2030. The ARV is to replace the…

UNICEF Remarks This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Chief of Communication in Sudan, Eva Hinds – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva 14 April 2026 PORT SUDAN/GENEVA, 14 April 2026 – “After three devastating years of war, children in Sudan continue to bear the heaviest toll, with drones responsible for nearly 80 per cent of all reported child killings and injuries. “As this conflict enters its fourth year, the reality for children in Sudan is growing darker hour by hour. In just the…

Bottom lines up front TAIPEI—Taiwan and China just held a leadership-level summit, of sorts. This past week, Cheng Li-wun, the chairperson of Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), made a rare visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It culminated in the much-anticipated summit between Cheng and Chinese President Xi Jinping in his capacity as the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) General Secretary.  For Beijing, Cheng’s visit is a key part of its latest experimentation with what could be called party-to-party diplomacy between the CCP and KMT, in place of government-to-government diplomacy between Beijing and Taipei.  The trip is…

Despite clear strategic guidance identifying China as the primary pacing threat, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) lacks a coordinated, scalable, and sustained approach for developing and utilizing China-relevant expertise—such as language skills, cultural understanding, and regional knowledge—across its workforce. This gap raises concerns about the USAF’s ability to effectively anticipate and compete with China in a complex, evolving strategic environment. In this report, the authors assess how the USAF develops, recognizes, and applies China-relevant expertise, drawing on interviews with airmen and educators, policy and document analysis, and historical case studies. The findings reveal that China-focused expertise remains limited in scale,…

If you were designing a weapon meant to never be noticed until it’s too late, you’d probably end up with something like the AGM-86 ALCM.It doesn’t roar across the sky like a ballistic missile. It doesn’t announce itself with dramatic speed or blinding heat. Instead, it slips in, low, quiet, deliberate, hugging the terrain like a shadow that refuses to be caught. And that’s exactly the point.The AGM-86 ALCM (Air-Launched Cruise Missile) was built during a time when the world was balanced on a knife’s edge, the Cold War. Back then, the challenge wasn’t just striking a target. It was…

Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle. Credit: © Anduril Industries. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has established the Maritime Autonomous Systems Unit (MASU), aiming to advance the adoption and operational use of uncrewed maritime technologies.   The unit was created under Project SEA 1200 and operates with the motto ‘We Wait, We Strike’.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more It is designed to develop, integrate, and deploy maritime autonomous systems tailored for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and strike roles across extended distances.  According to a statement by Australia’s Department of Defence, the unit will control and operate a…