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WORLD DEFENSE SHOW 2026 — Estonian officials came to Riyadh this week to feel out ways to facilitate bilateral procurement of defense technology with Saudi Arabia, a senior Estonian official told Breaking Defense. Siim Sukles, undersecretary for Defense Industry & Innovation at the Estonian Ministry of Defense, described early talks as the “the first steps to introduce the agencies to each other to find some kind of common activities. Because when it comes to procurement, it’s a global market.” He predicted a memorandum of understanding between the each nation’s procurement agencies could follow, though it’s unclear when. The nations, separated…

David’s Sling forms a key part of Israel’s layered air and missile defence system. Credit: Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD). Israeli and US defence agencies have completed a series of successful tests on the David’s Sling air and missile defence system. The tests were conducted by The Israeli Missile Defense Organization (IMDO), operating within the Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D) at the Ministry of Defence (IMOD), along with the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media…

Ukraine has developed and tested a new multi-caliber air defense system named “Shershen,” according to a report published by the Ukrainian defense outlet Militarnyi. The main developer and systems integrator is a company that is part of the National Association of Defense Industries of Ukraine (NAUDI), working with several Ukrainian firms responsible for missile guidance […]

GA-ASI combines its autonomous aircraft technology with a government mission package for evaluation. Credit: © General Atomics. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) has been chosen by the US Marine Corps (USMC) to participate in the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Uncrewed Expeditionary Tactical Aircraft (MUX TACAIR) Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) programme. Under the new contract, GA-ASI will incorporate a Marine Corps mission kit into its YFQ-42A surrogate platform to assess integration with crewed fighters as part of the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF). Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36…

Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org The U.S. military is moving to restock its supply of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker-busting bombs it used against Iran’s underground nuclear facilities last June, according to Air Force documents.  The Air Force is finalizing a deal with Boeing worth over $100 million to replace the bombs it used to pummel Iran’s Fordow and Natanz nuclear sites. In partially redacted documents released on a government website Feb. 12, the service…

In a recent Instagram video, former UFC 135-pound champion Merab Dvalishvili took a lighthearted jab at Petr Yan. Dvalishvili lost his bantamweight title to Yan last year in a rematch at UFC 323. However, since “The Machine” was the most active champion in 2025, who successfully defended his belt three times before ultimately losing it to Yan, the promotion has shown its respect by promising the Georgian an immediate title rematch. And he honestly deserves one. Yan vs. Dvalishvili 3 was expected to happen during or after the first quarter of 2026. However, “No Mercy” recently had lower back surgery…

MMA Fighting has UFC BJJ 5 results for the Musumeci vs. Montague event and more from Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Thursday night.In the main event, Mikey Musumeci puts his UFC BJJ bantamweight title on the line against Shay Montague. Musumeci is 2-0 in UFC BJJ competition, and seeks the second defense of his championship, while Montague competes for the promotion for the first time.The UFC BJJ middleweight title is on the line in the co-main event as Ronaldo Souza Junior takes on Tarik Hopstock. Souza became the inaugural 185-pound champion this past December with a unanimous decision win…

One goal of climate science is often seen as reducing uncertainty. But the quest for predictions—and a reliance on the analytical methods that require them—can prove counterproductive and sometimes dangerous when addressing wicked problems such as climate change. Robust decision-making (RDM), one important method for decision-making under deep uncertainty (DMDU), is a set of concepts, processes, and enabling tools for multiscenario, multiobjective analysis aimed not to make better predictions, but to yield better decisions under conditions of deep uncertainty. RDM combines decision analysis, assumption-based planning, scenarios, and exploratory modeling methodologies to stress test strategies over myriad plausible paths into the…

Lawmakers gave federal employees a three-month reprieve from governmentwide layoffs, as part of back-and-forth budget negotiations following the longest shutdown last fall. But those protections are set to expire on Friday. When Congress ended the longest government shutdown last fall, it passed a continuing resolution with a provision barring layoffs through Jan. 30. Those layoff protections were extended into mid-February, when lawmakers passed a second stopgap spending bill that kept the Department of Homeland Security funded through Feb. 13. Congress left town Thursday after failing to reach a deal to fund DHS, making it almost certain that the department will…