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Magomed Ankalaev enters UFC Abu Dhabi as a sizable favorite on July 25 over short-notice replacement Bogdan Guskov, and the five-round format leans toward the Russian former champion. The betting pick is Ankalaev by unanimous decision, with late TKO a live alternative if Guskov fades after an aggressive start. The former champion Ankalaev is listed around -460 on the moneyline, while Guskov sits at +360. In US odds, a $460 wager on Ankalaev would return $100 in profit, while a $100 Guskov bet would return $360 if the underdog pulls it off. The implied probabilities sit near 80 percent for…

Senators questioned Wednesday whether the financial details of the military’s Tricare pharmacy program benefit the contractor, Express Scripts, more than military beneficiaries.Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., raised concerns about anti-competitive tactics, questioning the practice of allowing Express Scripts — the largest pharmacy benefit manager in the United States — to have the contract as exclusive administrator of the Tricare pharmacy program, while owning and operating two mail-order pharmacies, Express Scripts Pharmacy and Accredo Specialty Pharmacy. She questioned whether Express Scripts drives more business to itself, pushing local pharmacies out of the Tricare network and limiting beneficiaries’ access to more personalized local…

 GRAND FORKS – 16 July 2026 – General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) began operations of its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC) at the GrandSKY UAS Business Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota, on July 18, 2016. Over the past 10 years, the FTTC has been the site of a number of historic “firsts” for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and has delivered training to more than 4,000 pilots and sensor operators that fly UAS produced by GA-ASI. “It’s been an eventful decade for the FTTC,” said GA-ASI CEO Linden Blue. “We opened this facility with the idea of expanding…

Capitalism once promised futurity. In his 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities of our Grandchildren, Keynes rejected the economic pessimism of the era and argued that capitalism was on the cusp of overcoming scarcity and economic necessity. The major challenge of life would not be survival, but the creation of meaning in a post-materialist world. As we approach the centennial of Keynes’ essay, the promise of futurity appears increasingly bleak. One particularly bleak forecast emerges with William Robinson’s Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (2025). Robinson’s book can be situated within a proliferating literature of capitalist decline, such as Wolfgang Streek’s How Will…

LONDON— Disagreement among allies, uncertainty around the Iran war, and defense spending fluctuations in Europe and the United States will swirl around the Farnborough Air Show in England next week.Other things will also set this year’s edition of the biennial show apart from its predecessors, industry representatives and aviation analysts told Defense One. Typically, the commercial-heavy air expo is preceded by the Royal International Air Tattoo at the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force station, one of the world’s largest military airshows. But in late May, RIAT organizers announced this year’s show was canceled to the public. The reason: the war…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Faced with the ubiquitous threat from small attack drones, military forces around the world are resorting to the use of large amounts of mesh netting for protection, something TWZ was among the first to highlight. Now it appears the South Korean military may be employing this defensive measure as well. After a recent logistics training exercise in South Korea, photographs were posted on the Pentagon’s image distribution site showing what appears to be anti-drone netting on a ship-to-shore floating platform used for…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States expanded its airstrike campaign against Iran early Friday by hitting more bridges, energy sites and collapsing a tower at a key Iranian port, part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to start striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran to ease its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran launched new missile attacks against U.S.-allied nations in the Middle East, including Qatar, a key mediator in the war. It also damaged a power and water desalination plant in Kuwait — something crucial in the small, desert nation. The interim ceasefire agreed to last…

The FP-9 ballistic missile is currently under development. (Fire Point)While the UK is planning to acquire the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) programme to extend the Army’s current land-based strike range by 2027, Ukraine is manufacturing and launching ballistic missiles at Russia.Founded in 2022, Fire Point now employs 6,000 people, 25% of whom work in its R&D department. Its FP-5 Flamingo is a seven-metre ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 3,000 km and a speed of 650-700 km/hr. One of the FP-5’s key advantages is its capability to operate in conditions of active electronic warfare. The system does…

UFC 329 wasn’t quite as big as UFC White House, but it was close.On Thursday, Paramount+ — the exclusive broadcast partner for the UFC — released viewership numbers for this past weekend’s big number event, headlined by the return of Conor McGregor after a five-year layoff. Across the U.S. and Latin America, the UFC 329 card reached 15.9 million total viewers, according to Nielsen and Adobe Analytics. That number falls just short of last month’s UFC White House event, which drew 17 million viewers across the two markets.UFC 329 also came up short in comparison to UFC White House in…

Ukrainian air defenders are contemplating the integration of the country’s integrated air defence architecture with NATO’s Air Command and Control System which could represent a major enhancement to the protection of the alliance’s European airspace.Ukrainian officials have shared details on plans to deepen interoperability between the country’s integrated air defence system and NATO’s air and missile defence infrastructure. The air defence architecture for the alliance’s European membership is built around NATO’s Air Command and Control System (ACCS). ACCS is a common Command and Control (C2) system which can be tailored to the specific requirements of European alliance members. Each national…