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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…

Nobody has ever accused Paige Ivette Clymer of picking easy fights, and her ONE Championship debut is no exception. Clymer steps onto the global stage against Helena Crevar in a 10-minute openweight submission grappling contest at The Inner Circle 22, streaming exclusively for The Inner Circle members from Bangkok’s historic Lumpinee Stadium on Friday, July 17. The event airs live in Asia primetime. The 33-year-old has compiled a 118-7 record across every level of the women’s grappling circuit. A black belt under Keenan Cornelius at Legion American Jiu Jitsu, she recently won the 2026 ADCC West Coast Trials to punch…

Hamburg, 16 July 2026 –  SMM is expanding its Maritime Security & Defence offering with the launch of the Naval Hall, a dedicated exhibition hall for this important sector. Hall B8 combines a specialised exhibition, the Naval Stage as the venue for an international conference programme, and networking opportunities. As such, the Naval Hall will become a central meeting place for industry, navies, procurement organisations, research institutions, start-ups and international delegations. From 1 to 4 September 2026, more than 50 companies and organisations will showcase technologies and systems for naval vessels, maritime surveillance, communications, underwater applications and other solutions for…

Objectives We examined associations between coverage-promoting policies and changes in initiation and discontinuation of buprenorphine treatment during Medicaid unwinding. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of national retail pharmacy data (2021-2023) to examine the association between 4 separate coverage-promoting policies and the number of initiations and discontinuations of buprenorphine treatment episodes in the 6 months after unwinding began. Statistical significance was assessed using 2-sample t tests. Results Following up with enrollees nonresponsive to renewal requests and improving ex parte renewal rates were associated with smaller decreases in initiations (-1.4 percentage point difference [pp] [95% CI: -1.5 to -1.4] and -1.5…

Jon Jones’ former rival Ciryl Gane earned his respect in how he handled himself in the moments immediately after their UFC 285 fight. Former two-division UFC champion Jon Jones won the heavyweight title by handing Ciryl Gane a humiliating defeat at UFC 285. Just seconds into their fight, Jones tapped Gane with a nasty guillotine choke to become the UFC’s latest ‘champ-champ’. Fast forward to 2026, and Gane has earned his fourth undisputed heavyweight title shot after defeating Alex Pereira to win the interim belt at UFC Freedom 250. Gane is expected to face undisputed champion Tom Aspinall in a…

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – July 13, 2026 – SK Guns®, the Nation’s only series-driven, limited-edition manufacturer of custom firearms, is proud to announce the third production in its popular Conquerors Series: Julius Caesar. As a limited-production release, only 200 Colt 1911 pistols chambered in .38 Super will be available to collectors and enthusiasts. “Caesar was a Roman general, politician and writer whose conquests changed the history of the ancient world. He moved his armies quickly, built bridges, forts and siege works, and used discipline to defeat larger forces,” said Simon Khiabani, owner and founder of SK Guns. “His conquest made him legendary,…

Scam artists have been targeting the $100,000 now available to eligible New Mexico victims of radiation exposure dating back to the world’s first atomic bomb explosion code-named “Trinity” in New Mexico’s Jornada del Muerto desert on July 16, 1945, according to New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez.“New Mexicans who have been affected by these exposures deserve compensation and they deserve to get that compensation free from bad actors attempting to take advantage of them,” Lopez said in a release shortly after a major expansion and extension of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was signed into law on July 4,…

The House rejected a move to send a controversial veterans benefits bill back to committee for reconsideration and postponed a vote on the legislation Thursday, with House Speaker Mike Johnson saying that the bill likely won’t be raised again “for weeks.”In a surprising moment that followed more than an hour of heated debate over the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act on the House floor, Rep. Chris DeLuzio, D-Pa., offered a motion to return the bill to the House Veterans Affairs Committee for review.The vote on DeLuzio’s proposal was to precede a final vote on the legislation, which has divided…

The U.S. Air Force awarded Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, the Norwegian company that builds the weapon, $98.4 million to produce the next batch of Joint Strike Missiles, with work taking place at Kongsberg’s factory in Norway and wrapping up by June 30, 2030. The Joint Strike Missile, known by its American designation AGM-184A, solves a […]

Thales has included a vehicular/manpack radio in the SYNAPS family with the SYNAPS-V product. All family members will run several new and legacy waveforms. (Bernhard Rousseau/Thales)The Armée de Terre may order additional Contact radios via the 2027 French defence budget, with the force also considering the development of a backpack variant.Officials close to the French Ministry of Defence’s Contact land tactical communications programme shared with Armada that additional orders for Thales Contact tactical radios could be included in the country’s 2027 defence budget. The officials were speaking during the 2026 Eurosatory defence exhibition held in Paris between 15th and 19th…