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WASHINGTON — As the Coast Guard looks to “supercharge” its assets with a hefty $25 billion from the recent reconciliation spending bill, newly minted commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday said he is sizing up industry options to build additional icebreakers inside the US and sunsetting the MH-65 Dolphin helo fleet sooner than expected. “Supercharge is exactly the right word,” the commandant told lawmakers today. “It is what is fueling the success of Force Design 2028 … [and moving] people closer to the front lines to be able to streamline and create an acquisition and contracting superhighway.” Lunday, sworn in as the…

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with the Pentagon to quadruple production of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors over the next seven years, marking the company’s second such deal aimed at ramping up munitions manufacturing since the start of 2026. Once finalized, the agreement will allow THAAD interceptor production to grow from its current rate of 96 missiles a year to an annual rate of 400 interceptors, the company said today in a news release. During an earnings call this morning, Lockheed CEO Jim Taiclet told investors that the deal will need Congress to approve fiscal…

President Trump’s National Guard deployments across the country have already cost $589 million, and could rise to more than $1 billion by the end of the year if staffing trends and mission scope do not change, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office. Current deployments are costing about $93 million a month, and the price for 1,000 Guard troops deployed to any American city costs between $18 and $21 million per month. Rewind: Trump has sent or tried to send troops to six U.S. cities so far. “The Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape,”…

Ministry of Defence of Ukraine 27 January, 2026, 8:08 PM EET Minister of Defence of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov held talks with Catherine Vautrin, Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs of France. He thanked France for its many years of consistent cooperation and its strong contribution to the development of Ukraine’s air defence and aviation capabilities. “This partnership is already contributing to the protection of Ukraine’s skies,” the Minister of Defence of Ukraine stated. Mykhailo Fedorov noted that the two countries are currently cooperating across a range of areas. This includes, in particular, measures to strengthen air defence and…

Map Maker rework won’t be available anytime soon in Brawl Stars.Buffies will continue to evolve with more plans ahead.The team is rethinking about progression systems like Records and Mega Pig. After a long delay, Brawl Stars is back with their beloved “Time to Explain” podcast, where players and content creators from the community can ask any questions about the game and the devs addresses them. They’ve now released a new one, following the September 2024 one, covering topics such as Buffies, and more. We have highlighted the key points from this podcast to help you grasp what you can expect…

Tammy Silva started sharing remote job opportunities on LinkedIn during the pandemic.  When she moved back to Brazil after years in Singapore and Australia, she noticed something: most Brazilians had no idea they could work remotely for U.S. companies and earn in dollars. So she started posting about it on LinkedIn. Job openings. Resume tips. Interview advice. All free. “I wasn’t doing it for work,” Tammy says. “I was just trying to reach people. If I helped 10 or 20 people get better jobs, that was enough.” But people kept following. The audience grew. What started as a side project…

PARIS — Norway picked Hanwha to supply the army with long-range precision artillery in a deal worth 19 billion Norwegian kroner (US$2 billion), preferring the South Korean company’s Chunmoo system over competing offers from KNDS and Rheinmetall as well as the U.S. High Mobility Artillery Rocket System.Norway agreed to buy 16 launch systems as well as a “large number” of missiles, including munitions with a range of up to 500 kilometers, the government said in a statement on Thursday. None of the other commercial bidders could deliver a comparable range, Norway said.European countries are looking to add long-range strike in…

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 Poor event planning and staffing contributed to a fatal mishap last April at Kadena Air Base, Japan, when rotor wash from an HH-60W helicopter knocked over a Japanese teacher from a Department of Defense Education Activity school attending a public aerial demonstration, according to an Air Force investigation.  The victim, a 60-year-old woman, was standing just 95 feet away from the helicopter’s landing zone when the sudden, powerful wind from the rotor wash knocked her…

Elbit Systems of America (Elbit America) received a delivery order valued at approximately $74.4 million for Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggle (SBNVG) systems from Marine Corps Systems Command. The SBNVG systems will be produced at the company’s facility in Roanoke, Virginia through 2027. The delivery order was placed under a multi-year Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract valued at roughly $500 million secured in 2023. “Squad Binocular Night Vision Goggles effectively boost the capabilities of our Marines, so they can make swift and smart decisions. Our SBNVGs incorporate white phosphor Gen 3 image intensification tubes, providing optimum resolution and clarity, along…

In 432 B.C.E., a year before the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, the Megarians received an unusual decree from the Athenian assembly: They were prevented from accessing the vast Athenian Empire’s harbors and marketplaces due to their alliance with Sparta, a rising empire that posed a clear threat to Athens’ hegemony. While the official reasoning is lost to history, many scholars believe that Athens, fearful of the rising great power, used sanctions to force Megara’s economic decline.So began the deliberate use of economics as a tool of statecraft.In the millennia since, economics remained an important enabler of state power. Yet…