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The Royal Australian Air Force’s MC-55A Peregrine aircraft. Credit: © L3Harris Technologies, Inc. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has received its first MC-55A Peregrine surveillance aircraft from the US Air Force (USAF). The aircraft arrived as part of efforts outlined in the 2024 Integrated Investment Program and is intended to provide comprehensive intelligence support for Australian Defence Force (ADF) missions. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Built on the Gulfstream G550 airframe, the aircraft has undergone significant modifications by L3Harris Technologies. It…

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The U.S. defense industrial base is often understood through its largest prime contractors, but the system’s true vulnerabilities lie deep below the surface. Platforms from ships to aircraft and munitions sit atop a multi-tiered supply chain ecosystem, where increasingly specialized suppliers provide the components, materials, and sub-systems critical to the final product.This graphic illustrates the layered structure of the defense industrial base, from prime contractors at the top to the lower-tier suppliers that form its hidden foundation. While risks at the prime level are visible and actively managed, fragility accumulates in the lower tiers, where small, capital-constrained firms face single-source…

An image of Poland’s two new SIGINT ships sailing together. Both are due to enter service in the 2027-28 timeframe. Credit: Saab Swedish defence and security technology company Saab has launched a second signals intelligence (SIGINT) ship built for the Polish Navy. The launch took place on 14 January at the Remontowa shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. The ship, ORP Henryk Zygalski, is the second of two SIGINT ships built by Saab for Poland under the country’s ‘DELFIN’ programme. The lead ship, ORP Jerzy Różycki, was launched on 1 July 2025. In the January press release, Saab said both ships will…

BKFC KnuckleMania VI has taken a hit with multi-time UFC title challenger Yoel Romero being forced out of his scheduled contest against Lorenzo Hunt.BKFC officials confirmed the news to MMA Fighting on Tuesday with Romero falling ill with the flu prior to his fight, which ultimately forced him to drop off the card. With Romero out, BKFC middleweight champion Dave Mundell is stepping up to the challenge for a 199-pound catchweight non-title fight against Hunt on Feb. 7.BKFC KnuckleMania VI goes down from the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia with the card airing live on DAZN.It’s obviously disappointing news for…

Version 1.7.0 of WordPress Studio is a major upgrade for anyone building WordPress sites locally, especially developers and power users who like to automate tasks and work from the terminal. In earlier releases, the Studio CLI focused mainly on creating and managing preview sites.  With version two, it becomes a full-featured command-line companion for much of your Studio workflow, including creating and managing local sites, running WP-CLI in the right context, connecting to WordPress.com, and more. In this post, we’ll review what’s new and share practical ways to incorporate the Studio CLI into AI-assisted workflows.  For the full command reference…

Dana Linn Bailey is known for building her body thanks to some seriously intense gym sessions, but despite her inspiring efforts, she also proves that leaning into leg day need not take ages. Instead, the former Olympia Women’s Physique winner blasts her legs with a challenge that requires just three sets each side. Here’s how to try it for yourself. “You want something to absolutely torch your quads?” try this combo, explained Bailey, demonstrating the challenge to her more than two million Instagram followers. Dana Linn Bailey’s Ultimate Leg Burner Challenge To replicate her reps, you’ll perform a heel elevated…

ZIKIM, Israel — Several Israeli soldiers stood over a large slab of concrete resting on a pile of rubble while another officer operated a mechanical lifting tool made by Holmatro, a Netherlands-based company that makes a range of hydraulic tools. If it looked like a scene from a search and rescue mission, that’s the idea. The effort was part of a training exercise part of the Israel Defense Force’s Search and Rescue Brigade, which falls under the Home Front Command, to simulate a recovery effort in the wake of a missile impact or natural disaster. Three days before Breaking Defense…

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Satellite imagery appears to show China is set to reclaim land on another reef in the South China Sea for yet another military base.Simultaneously, China demonstrated the use of hundreds of fishing boats to support future combat operations against Taiwan.The coral reef in question is Antelope Reef, located at 16°27’45”N, 111°35’20”E in the Paracel Islands. It is 250 miles east of Hue in Vietnam, and about 175 miles southeast of Sanya Naval Base on China’s Hainan Island.According to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative – AMTI for short – China has military outposts, including sophisticated military bases…

Procure-to-pay (P2P) platforms are widely seen as being transformed by artificial intelligence. In practice, the change is uneven and bounded by the underlying design of most P2P platforms. Some capabilities have improved materially. Others have stalled despite the addition of machine learning, generative AI and conversational interfaces. In several areas, AI has primarily exposed structural limitations rather than removed them. This series focuses on that reality. Rather than relying on vendor claims or future-state narratives, the series examines how P2P platforms are actually changing in the AI era by looking at observable platform behavior across procurement, invoicing, supplier management and…