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Johannesburg, South Africa. 6 August 2026 – Paramount Aerospace Industries has strengthened the recently unveiled Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (Counter-UAS) capability of its multi-mission Mwari aircraft through the successful integration of ASELSAN’s advanced ASELFLIR-500 electro-optical targeting system. The integration forms part of a strategic collaboration between Paramount Aerospace Industries and ASELSAN and marks a significant enhancement of the dedicated Mwari Counter-UAS configuration announced by Paramount earlier this year.  By combining Mwari’s unique modular mission architecture with one of the world’s leading electro-optical targeting systems, the partnership delivers an even more capable airborne solution to counter the rapidly growing threat posed by one-way…

BKB Bare Knuckle Boxing is taking its first event in Mexico straight to championship territory. BKB 59 lands at Auditorio Municipal in Tijuana on September 19, with local fighter Julian Fernandez defending his super cruiserweight world title against former three-division champion Dan “Big Pod” Podmore. BKB 59 Fernandez will have home support, but Podmore is arriving with a résumé built for this kind of assignment. The Birmingham fighter has previously held BKB belts at heavyweight, bridgerweight and cruiserweight, and he most recently stopped Jarome Hatch at BKB 55: Carnage in Cardiff. His 9-4 bare-knuckle record includes experience against title-level opposition,…

The National Museum of Health and Medicine hosted an August Lecture where Chief Archivist Laura Cutter explored how sexually transmitted infections (STIs) affected service members during World Wars I and II. STIs were a serious threat to military readiness and forced leaders to rethink how they protected the health of their troops. She explained how the military responded to these challenges and how health education became an important tool for protecting the force.STIs affected thousands of service members. During World War I, about 380,000 troops received a diagnosis. At one point, as many as 18,000 soldiers each day could not…

On Thursday morning, the UFC announced the full main card for UFC 331 on September 19th in Los Angeles featuring Joshua Van vs. Alexandre Pantoja for the flyweight title and a lightweight contender match between Arman Tsarukyan and Mauricio Ruffy.Tsarukyan vs. Ruffy is an interesting match-up, but a bit of a swerve after weeks of reports that Tsarukyan would be facing Charles Oliveira in a rematch of their razor close UFC 300 fight. What happened to elicit the switch? According to UFC commentator Daniel Cormier, it was the shocking death of Oliveira’s Chute Boxe teammate and ‘brother’ Allan Nascimento on…

With protein’s popularity at an all time high, it’s expected that companies and brands will maximize the high demand for protein products by releasing every variation of protein supplement that you can think of, and they have. While that means that there’s almost definitely an option out there for every kind of buyer, it also makes the process of choosing the best protein supplement that much harder.  Amidst all the noise and fast-paced development in the protein industry, let’s strip away the fancy packaging and aesthetic marketing, and take it all back to the basics. How can you find the…

ASELSAN’s TOLUN-P is mission-ready, delivering precision deep strike capability against hardened battlefield targets. Capable of penetrating up to one meter of reinforced concrete, TOLUN-P employs a cockpit-programmable, time-delayed electronic fuze to maximize lethality after penetration. Integrated with ASELSAN’s SADAK-4T Multiple Ejector Rack, it enables air platforms to engage multiple high-value targets in a single sortie, significantly enhancing operational effectiveness.

The command tent of the 25th Infantry Division’s forward headquarters, buried beneath the dense, humid jungle canopy of a remote Pacific island, was a quiet hum of glowing blue screens and whispered coordination. For seventy-two hours, the headquarters element had maintained absolute radio silence under strict emissions control guidance. A passive naval surveillance feed, connected to the 25th ID’s AI-enabled mission command suite, indicated a lone guided-missile destroyer drifting lazily east of a crucial straight. Its radar and sonar systems were active, its propulsion appeared compromised, and unencrypted radio distress signals painted a picture of a crew panicking after an…

HONOLULU—Heavy seas didn’t stop Firestorm Labs from printing “thousands” of unique parts aboard the USS Essex amphibious assault ship on the way to the Rim of the Pacific naval exercise here, the expeditionary manufacturing company announced this week.“We were told it was the roughest water off the California coast in the last five years,” Firestorm CEO Dan Magy told Defense One. The company has an exclusive arrangement with HP, which uses a type of 3D printing called multi-jet fusion, “and what we’ve found is that the systems and the machines are quite resilient.”“We think we’re building a contested logistics solution…

News August 06, 2026 Dan Taylor Technology Editor Military Embedded Systems Stock image EDMONDS, Washington. wolfSSL introduced seven developments extending post-quantum cryptography and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-3 support across embedded, Linux, networking, virtualization, and satellite systems, the company announced in a statement. The updated wolfCrypt FIPS 140-3 module includes the Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM), Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (ML-DSA), and Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Algorithm (SLH-DSA), which are standardized under National Institute of Standards and Technology FIPS 203 through 205, the statement reads. Additional work includes FrodoKEM support, post-quantum algorithms for the Linux Kernel Crypto application programming interface,…

It is conceivable that in one blistering campaign, the People’s Republic of China could invade, occupy, and forcibly annex Taiwan. One question would dominate the post-occupation debate: “What more could have been done?” The obvious answers will be better intelligence, bigger exercises, more weapons. One underexamined answer is a different model for U.S. special operations forces advising.The United States has spent decades using rotational military teams to train foreign partners. This approach is sustainable and useful for specific tactical tasks, but it is poorly suited to the institutional, linguistic, and political work required to help Taiwan prepare for a prolonged…