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A former UFC bantamweight champion believes Conor McGregor will never come back to the top level.Earlier this month, McGregor returned to the octagon after a five-year hiatus to run it back with Max Holloway, an opponent he had beaten 13 years ago by unanimous decision despite tearing his ACL during the bout. Before the July 11 rematch, the former UFC double champion claimed that after his half-decade rest period, he now feels like he is just entering his prime and will completely demolish Holloway once again.However, at UFC 329, “The Notorious” got injured right away while landing a flying kick,…

Former UFC strawweight champion, Zhang Weili, just had a professional makeover.The 115-pound powerhouse, who holds victories over former champions Joanna Jedrzejczyk, Carla Esparza, and Jessica Andrade, among others, shared a video of her new look on Instagram and fight fans were so rattled by the transformation that some of them were insisting the results were aided by artificial intelligence.“There was a professional makeup artist who taught me to apply makeup,” Zhang said.

Rodriguez will present its latest precision bearing solutions and collaborative robotics technology at AMB 2026, taking place in Stuttgart from 15 to 19 September. The company will showcase its RTB bearing series for machine tools alongside the new MovoTrak Cobot Transfer Unit (CTU), designed to extend the working range of collaborative robots. The focus of the exhibition will be the RTB axial-radial cylindrical roller bearings, which are engineered for rotary and positioning units in machine tools. Typical applications include rotary tables, tool tables, milling heads and additional rotary axes. With the recent addition of sizes 650 and 850, Rodriguez has…

The bill forbids federal officials from asking a contractor to retaliate against someone else. A companion bill passed the Senate in May. Michele Sandiford July 21, 2026 1:13 pm < a min read   Federal contractors will gain broader whistleblower protections under legislation passed by the House on Monday. The bill blocks retaliation against contractors who refuse to violate laws, rules or regulations in the course of their work, and for sharing evidence of mismanagement, waste, abuse or danger to public health and safety. It also protects whistleblower rights in case of a non-disclosure agreements and forbids federal officials from…

The serratus anterior is one of the most overlooked muscles in strength training. Most lifters spend years chasing a bigger chest, wider shoulders, and thicker lats while ignoring the muscle that gives the upper body a powerful, athletic appearance and keeps the shoulders healthy. If you have ever admired the ribbed muscle that wraps around the side of a lean athlete’s torso, you were looking at the serratus anterior. It creates the distinctive finger like appearance along the ribs and plays a critical role in pressing strength, overhead performance, punching power, and shoulder stability. The good news is that you…

Exercise Taipan Strike 2026 was an SM-2 missile live-fire event led by the RAAF in collaboration with the RAN, the Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group, US government agencies and industry partners. (ADF)Australia’s successful engagement of an airborne target using a prototype ground-based air defence (GBAD) system, armed with Raytheon’s Standard Missile-2 (SM-2), marks a significant step towards fielding a medium-range GBAD capability.The test was conducted at the Woomera test range in South Australia during Exercise Taipan Strike 26 in June.The SM-2 missile was drawn from Royal Australian Navy (RAN) stocks, and it was launched from a Derringer trailer-mounted Expeditionary Launch…

News July 21, 2026 Lisa Daigle Assistant Managing Editor Military Embedded Systems SPY-6 image courtesy RTX ANDOVER, Mass. Raytheon won a contract extension worth $1.8 billion with the U.S. Navy for its SPY-6 radar systems, building on the original hardware production and sustainment contract signed in March 2022.   The Raytheon announcement notes that the AESA [active electronically scanned array] SPY-6 3D radar is now aboard two commissioned U.S. Navy ships and is installed on 11 others, all of which are in various stages of testing. Over the next decade, SPY-6 is expected to be deployed on more than 50 U.S. Navy ships. SPY-6 radars…

The war in Iran has unsettled the Gulf. Arab states are increasingly frustrated with the United States, which, after launching a war that wreaked havoc on global energy markets, failed to keep them safe from Iranian strikes. But the war is also forcing these countries to reassess their relationship with China. Beijing’s wait-and-see approach to the war and unwillingness to use its leverage over Tehran to contain the conflict have disabused Gulf Arab states of any lingering expectation that China could become an important security partner in the foreseeable future.In the past few years, Gulf Arab states had come to…

FARNBOROUGH, UK—U.S. lawmakers sounded alarms about the fate of this year’s Pentagon budget while attending Europe’s largest airshow and said the Trump administration’s top defense priorities, including the Golden Dome missile defense program, are in peril.A bipartisian congressional delegation at the Farnborough International Airshow told reporters on Monday that the gridlock surrounding this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, an Iran war supplemental, and additional funding measures likely portends acontinuing resolution: a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open at the current year’s spending levels.“We’re not going to get an NDAA bill done anytime soon,” Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said.…

Lithuania is in advanced talks with Israeli company Rafael for the purchase of new weapon systems. Earlier this month the country received an additional batch of the Spike LR2 anti-tank guided missiles from a contract worth over €3 million. Israeli Ministry of Defence sources confirmed that Lithuania continues to receive systems included in signed contracts, but that new contracts are expected. Up to now Lithuania has received systems with a price tag of at least €12 million under a framework contract. The deal has been signed with Rafael subsidiary EuroSpike which is a joint venture between the Israeli company and…