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The BTR-4 armoured personnel carrier. Credit: Ukraine MoD Ukraine outlined upgraded BTR-4 ‘Bucephalus’ capabilities (layout, RWS, armour); fleet size unclear, estimated ~200–400. Three-compartment design with internal passage and rear doors; up to 110 km/h road, 60 km/h off-road. BM-7 Parus RWS (30mm + grenades/MG + ATGM option), add-on armour, and fully amphibious (10 km/h in water). Ukraine has revealed details of its BTR-4 ‘Bucephalus’ armoured personnel carrier (APC), a localised variant of the Russian-origin BTR design first introduced into Ukrainian service in 2014 and since upgraded through lessons learned during its ongoing war against Russia. In a 9 April release,…

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa, Japan – U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Charles Grubbs, a native of Florida and a defensive cyberspace operator with 3d Cyber Warfare Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, was named the Cyberspace Warfare Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year on April 7, 2026. Grubbs said he was both surprised and humbled when he learned he had been selected. “It was pretty surprising, because I got the email over the weekend,” said Grubbs. “It’s very humbling. You don’t see the other people you’re competing against, so you really don’t know what you’re even comparing yourself to.” Rather than focusing…

The Army—the last of the U.S. services to introduce a tiltrotor aircraft—is gathering lessons and working through challenges as it prepares to send the first Bell MV-75s to units for testing and feedback later this year. It’s a different kind of effort than bringing a new helicopter or tank online, because the Army is making the move 30 years after the Marine Corps began testing the V-22 Osprey, 20 years after Air Force special operations started training on its version, and 10 years after the Navy selected it to take over the carrier on-board delivery mission.Part of that delay has been…

XS Sights to Display New Products at 2026 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits Fort Worth, Texas (April 10, 2026) – XS® Sights will be displaying its newest sights and accessories for personal defense, hunting, and target shooting at the 2026 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Houston, Texas, April 17-19. All NRA members are encouraged to stop by booth # 1716 in the George R. Brown Convention Center to meet with the XS team and learn more about the numerous XS products engineered to deliver an improved shooting experience. Among the new products are the soon-to-be released Glock Gen 6…

Sunday’s Hungarian parliamentary election brought the curtain down on Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s sixteen years in power. Opposition leader Péter Magyar’s overwhelming victory paves the way for much-needed reform in Budapest and offers a clear alternative to Orbán’s antagonism toward Europe and Ukraine. However, policymakers in Brussels and Kyiv should not set their expectations too high, as Hungary under Magyar may still not be as forward-leaning on support for Ukraine as some might hope. In a crushing repudiation of Orbán, Magyar’s center-right Tisza party won a supermajority of 138 seats from a total of 199 in Hungary’s National Assembly. The…

This report describes a series of exercises run with the Business and Civil Society scenario on the Infinite Potential platform. In this scenario, players take on the role of business and civil society leaders and must confront multiple overlapping challenges from artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI), including economic disruption, massive labor displacement, increased risk of cyberattacks, and potential loss of control from an AI system. The Business and Civil Society scenario broadened the experiment’s participants beyond government officials, as had been the case in prior Infinite Potential scenarios. Rather than roleplaying U.S. National Security Council members, participants…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The U.S. military has said it will start enforcing a blockade of all Iranian Gulf ports and coastal areas today. The move follows on from U.S. President Donald Trump’s earlier promise to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic shipping route that Iran has already effectively shut to the vast majority of maritime traffic in response to U.S.-Israeli strikes. It comes after negotiators from both sides failed to reach a deal to end the war, which began on February 28 but…

As the U.S. Navy continues to increase its presence and block passage in the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran war, experts have published a report calling into question the country’s current shipbuilding strategy and recommending ways to improve its maritime industrial base.A Center for Maritime Strategy report, released Friday, argues that amid an “atrophy” of the maritime industrial base, the U.S. should utilize its partnerships with naval allies to boost its shipbuilding, technological and strategic capabilities.This assessment comes while the Navy is in the spotlight for playing a large part in the war in Iran, a conflict that puts…

Curtis Blaydes and Josh Hokit put on one of the greatest heavyweight fights in history at UFC 327 so it’s tough to really call anybody a winner or a loser coming out of that epic showdown.But just days removed from the event, Blaydes issued his first statement about the three-round war after he was immediately sent to a local Miami hospital for treatment. It was previously revealed that Blaydes suffered a fractured orbital bone and a broken nose in the fight but he was rewarded for his efforts with a $100,000 Fight of the Night bonus.On Monday, Blaydes addressed the…

On October 19, Utrecht, Netherlands, once again became the beating heart of martial arts during the third edition of the BEST4 Seminar. Led by martial arts legends Semmy Schilt, Ernesto Hoost, Albert Kraus and Andy Souwer, the event once again grew into an impressive international training day filled with knowledge, intensity and inspiration. At Sporthallen De Witte in De Bilt, Netherlands, more than 130 participants gathered from the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Italy, England, Romania and even Sint Maarten. Fighters of different levels travelled to the Netherlands with one clear goal: to learn from the very best and continue developing themselves.…