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Demand is strong, but not without limitations The American defense industry sector is still experiencing an exceptional boom, driven by geopolitical events of recent years. Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022, the stock prices of companies like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, RTX, GE Aerospace, and partially Texas Instruments have clearly risen, reflecting a sharp increase in global demand for military equipment. American corporations have not experienced as rapid a rise as their European competitors, but they have maintained very strong financial foundations and record order portfolios. The operational situation of the companies is good, but…

Europe is beginning to understand the necessity of preparing for war with Russia and responding to the Kremlin’s hybrid attacks. This shift reflects growing awareness that Russia’s hybrid…

The Cheetah military-grade communications router features an expandable design for cryptographic security, video camera processing, and Ethernet.

Metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell fell and damaged a California Highway Patrol vehicle as personnel at a U.S. Marine Corps base fired live rounds over a highway — against the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom — during weekend exercises observed by Vice President JD Vance, state authorities said Sunday. No one was injured.The incident occurred when ordnance detonated overhead prematurely during Saturday’s exercise at Camp Pendleton, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.Newsom had strongly objected to the firing of munitions over Interstate 5 for safety reasons. The Democrat closed a 17-mile (27 kilometers) stretch of…

China may be exploring its own version of the U.S. Army’s Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) program, according to footage that recently surfaced on the Chinese social media platform Douyin (TikTok). The video shows a weapons collector examining what appears to be a Chinese experimental 6.8×50mm armor-piercing cartridge with a tungsten carbide core. While there

Never content to pollute only the Earth’s surface, oceans, and atmosphere, billionaire tech moguls like Elon Musk are increasingly flooding our planet’s orbit with debris from their for-profit space ventures. SpaceX, for example, already has some 8,600 active Starlink satellites doing laps around the planet, a number that needs constant reinforcements as craft either tumble back down to Earth or join the 25,000 bits of identifiable junk already floating in orbit. Just this week, Musk’s SpaceX launched 21 relay satellites into low Earth orbit on behalf of the US Space Force, after sending another 28 Starlink craft to join his…

As geopolitical tensions rise, cyber attacks are intensifying, with public services increasingly targeted. Over 130 countries have experienced cyber disruption. In recent years, ransomware attacks in Costa Rica crippled essential services for months. A cyber attack against Albania paralyzed the border entry system and revealed the identity of police informants. And a months-long ransomware attack on the Irish healthcare system disrupted radiation therapy for hundreds of cancer patients. AI is “democratizing” cybercrime by making cyber tools, such as ransomware-as-a-service, easily available off the shelf. In addition to the human cost — including delays to hospital treatment, lack of power and…

I. Introduction The South Caucasus – home to Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia – is a small but geopolitically important region, prone to intensifying competition between regional and global powers. It is also at a strategic crossroads between Europe, Middle East, and Asia. The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War, which was followed by the expulsion of 120,000 ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan’s forcible takeover of the entire region in September 2023, has significantly shifted the regional balance of power in favor of Azerbaijan. Baku not only has a considerable military and geographical advantage over Yerevan, but also a strong backer in Turkey.…

The BMA resident doctors committee, public health medicine registrars subcommittee, and joint academic trainees subcommittee are concerned about changes which will limit the opportunities for resident doctors in public health to participate in academic training in England. Public health is a medical specialty with a well established multiprofessional route of entry. For academic training, there are parallel but broadly equivalent pathways with medical applicants eligible for the National Institute for Health and Care Research ACF (academic clinical fellow) scheme and multiprofessional applicants eligible for training through the NIHR predoctoral award scheme. The NIHR’s ACF scheme is a highly valued component…

A Federal agent threatens protestors at Delaney Hall Detention Facility on June 13, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal government contracting data by Popular Information. Records from the Federal Procurement Data System reveal that ICE has increased spending on “small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories manufacturing” by 700% compared to 2024 levels.New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025, the day Trump was inaugurated, through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. Most of the spending…