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In his Nov. 7 address to industry, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will be more willing to buy a system that provides “the 85% solution” and can be iterated to 100% over time.That approach means fundamental change is coming to how the Defense Department thinks about tradeoffs in speed, cost and quality for how it acquires technologies and deploys them into the field.Speaking Tuesday at an event hosted by our Defense One colleagues, a panel of industry executives spoke to those tradeoffs as they pertain to risks DOD is willing to take in different categories.“It starts with how much…

The Rafale will undoubtedly elevate Ukraine’s defensive efforts against Russia.

An image from the ‘Aisios Oionos’ (Fortuitous Omen) tactical field exercise held earlier this month in the Evros border region. [InTime News] Greece is close to finalizing the list of defense procurement programs it will submit for funding under the European SAFE regulation, which supports joint European rearmament and industrial cooperation. According to the information provided, the list consists of systems already included in Greece’s 12-year Medium-Term Defense Equipment Planning program and addresses “real and pressing needs.” Greece is expected to obtain loans of approximately 788 million euros through SAFE. Among the most significant projects is the procurement of new…

CINCINNATI (WXIX) – Suspects on the run after police say two people robbed an armored money truck at gunpoint in the parking lot of a United Dairy Farmers in Mt. Healthy, Thursday afternoon. The Mt. Healthy Police Department said they were dispatched to the UDF after 911 calls began pouring in around noon, from both bystanders and the victim. “Yeah, he’s in the van, they’re trying to get him out of the van so they can get the money, I guess. I don’t know, I just see them roughing him up,” one witness said of the robbery,” a witness said…

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Mac Gilmour, who holds seven black belts in different systems and has participated in 28 different forms of martial arts, is going to be training pensioners to help them stay active and feel safer. “I want people to realise that when you retire you’re not finished,” said the instructor, who has been teaching for well over 40 years. “I just get despaired with the martial arts because there is nothing around for pensioners. “My objective is to give them some confidence so they don’t have to stay in the house, scared. “I have already spoke to five pensioners who are…

Welcome to Midnight Mania!Let’s start the night off by taking a look back over the three biggest stories of Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.Former UFC fighter — and one-time professional boxer — Darren Stewart is asking for financial help. Stewart is dealing with stage-four arthritis and a torn hip labrum, injuries that have left him in constant pain and struggling to walk. The 14-fight UFC veteran says he has burned through his savings and is now seeking donations to cover the cost of surgery.Forget the purple, Arman Tsarukyan looks like a freaking action figure.An underappreciated story this week is the return…

Gaining from his experience of working as a sparring partner of two-time World heavyweight champion professional boxer Anthony Joshua, English boxer Isaac Okoh is keen to take the Olympic route to achieve his ambition of becoming a successful pro.Delighted with a strong finish to the year, Okoh, who won the 90kg title in the World Boxing Cup Finals in Greater Noida on Thursday, acknowledges that he became better after his training sessions with Joshua ahead of the Briton’s famous fight in Saudi Arabia three years ago.“I really enjoyed sparring with Joshua in 2022 for the Oleksandr Usyk fight. It was…

Satellite imagery has depicted what appears to be at least three United States military vessels surrounding Trinidad—one off its northern coast, and two in the Gulf of Paria.European Space Agency (ESA) satellite Sentinel-2 L1C on Tuesday captured one large vessel, believed by experts to be the USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship deployed by the US Navy to the Caribbean earlier this year, situated just north of Diego Martin, 41 miles from Trinidad’s northern coast, and 45 from Venezuela.The Iwo Jima is a Landing Heli­copter Dock (LHD)—a type of vessel that has historically provided US Marine Corps…

In the face of increased drills, military action, and threatening rhetoric from the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan recently announced that it’s raising its core defense spending to 3 percent and plans to reach 3.32 percent by next year. Taiwan is also the first non-NATO country to align itself with NATO’s new 5 percent pledge, an agreement by the allies to spend 3.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) on core defense spending and at least 1.5 percent of GDP on associated infrastructure investment by 2030. These commitments demonstrate Taipei’s increased seriousness regarding defense. Taiwan should prioritize acquiring the necessary…