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ASELSAN’s LGK 82, LGK 84 and GÖZDE have once again demonstrated their precision strike capabilities, achieving four direct hits against different targets, including a highspeed moving target, during an international live fire demonstration. On 2 September 2026, the Guidance Systems Demonstration was held at the Konya Karapınar Firing Test Range, with the participation of military officials from more than 15 countries. During the demonstration, two LGK 84 guidance kits were launched from an F16 against an armored personnel carrier and a tank, while an LGK 82 was launched from a BAYRAKTAR AKINCI against another armored personnel carrier. Developed by ASELSAN…

Curtiss-Wright announced today that it was awarded an approximately $14 million contract from Northrop Grumman to provide sensor processing equipment supporting the Phase II development of the U.S. Army’s Improved Threat Detection System (ITDS), the future threat warning system designed to protect aircraft from air defense systems. The program aims to deliver advanced missile warning and threat detection capabilities across current and future U.S. Army aviation platforms, including the AH-64 Apache and MV-75 Cheyenne Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft. Curtiss-Wright’s ITDS integrated processor provides a modular, ruggedized solution designed to ingest high-bandwidth sensor data, perform real-time processing and data fusion, and…

Chris Weidman is trading the analyst desk for the commentary booth.The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Middleweight champion will make his color commentary debut tomorrow night (Tues., Sept. 8, 2026) during Week 5 of Contender Series Season 10, according to MMA Junkie.Weidman has remained a regular presence on UFC programming since stepping away from active competition, serving as a studio analyst and contributing to pre- and post-fight coverage. However, Tuesday will mark his first opportunity to call live fights from cageside.“The All-American” certainly has the resume for the job.Weidman famously knocked out Anderson Silva at UFC 162 in 2013, snapping…

On Sunday, September 6, 2026, the North Korean Navy commissioned its second 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class guided-missile destroyer, Kang Kon, in the eastern port city of Wonsan, in the presence of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Kang Kon (52) was commissioned approximately two months after the lead ship of the class, Choe Hyon (51), which was officially commissioned on June 23, 2026. Two additional vessels of the class are currently under construction. The second 5,000-ton Choe Hyon-class guided-missile destroyer, Kang Kon, during her comissioning ceremony. KCNA photo. Displacing approximately 5,000 tons and measuring 145 meters in length, the Choe Hyon-class…

Key PointsRussian military channel Fighterbomber reported that two Su-35S fighter jets collided in Russia’s Kursk region, killing one pilot and seriously injuring another.The report claims 10 confirmed Su-35S losses since Russia’s invasion began, attributed to Ukrainian air defenses, strike drones, and aviation incidents, a figure that could not be independently verified.Two Russian Su-35S fighter jets collided in Russia’s Kursk region, according to Fighterbomber, a Telegram channel with reported ties to the Russian Aerospace Forces. Follow-up reports indicate one pilot was killed in the collision and another was seriously injured, though the full circumstances of the incident are still being determined.…

Maureen Conway, the vice president at the Aspen Institute, explains how Congress and agencies can pull certain policy levers to support essential workers. Maureen Conway September 7, 2026 3:23 pm 5 min read Every Labor Day, politicians and cabinet secretaries praise American workers and recognize their importance to our nation. Yet millions of those workers remain excluded from the prosperity they helped create, trapped in jobs that offer low wages, unstable schedules, unsafe conditions and little opportunity to advance. In 2024, over 39 million workers in the United States, roughly one in four, earned low wages, defined as less than…

Losing stubborn belly fat does not always mean doing more cardio, training harder or following an increasingly restrictive diet. In a recent YouTube video, Dr. Mike Diamonds shares the five daily habits he used with his client Alex, who went from 200 pounds to 177 pounds in just 10 weeks. The surprising part of the transformation was that the approach did not involve adding more intense exercise. “We did not add more training. We took all of that intense stuff out.” Instead, the focus was on creating consistent habits throughout the day, particularly around movement, food, stress and sleep. 1.…

By the time most Americans understood that the country was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, the military’s air defense network had already been improvising for nearly an hour, working with a fraction of the information it needed and, in at least one case, chasing a hijacked airplane that had already crashed. The 9/11 Commission spent years reconstructing what happened inside that network that morning, and its findings, laid out in detail by Air & Space Forces Magazine’s minute-by-minute account of the commission’s report, describe a military response defined less by failure than by an air defense architecture unsuited to…

We’ve already seen some incredible CRPG bundles in the past. In recent days, Humble has done it again with the CRPG Pack Isometric Immersion, which starts at $10 for five games, with a $15 tier expanding the selection and a $23 tier unlocking the full collection, and now I’ll give you more details about the game’s features inside. The lineup includes Disco Elysium, UnderRail, and SKALD, alongside two Owlcat RPGs with substantial additional content: Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous – Game of the Year Edition and Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader with its first Season Pass. Pathfinder’s package includes all six…

Arms trafficking in the Caribbean has soared in recent years, with many states now ranking firearms trafficking as the number one public safety and security threat. As new methods of arming individuals and gangs emerge across the Caribbean, gun violence continues to rise throughout the region. While armed gangs in Haiti currently possess superior firepower to the police, most countries are trying to get a handle on the problem before it becomes that bad. Some outdated narratives, particularly about South American arms, still color thinking about firearms in the region, but the reality is becoming increasingly complex in the directional…