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There is growing scientific and policy attention being paid to the risks of mirror life, but recognition of the problem has so far outpaced the development of concrete oversight. This paper sets out the authors’ view on how the governance of mirror biology research might begin to be operationalized. The authors’ organizing claim is that the most pressing deficit in the landscape is the gap between the widening recognition of mirror biology as a governance challenge and the absence of any concerted effort to apply operational mechanisms to it. They build from that gap to develop a preliminary framework that…

Israel aims to reduce its dependence on foreign suppliers for precision munitions. According to information available to the author from Israeli defense circles, the Ministry of Defense has commissioned the national defense industry to develop heavy precision bombs modeled after the U.S. JDAM. This move comes in response to U.S. arms supply restrictions set to take effect in 2024, which have prompted a fundamental rethinking in Jerusalem regarding ammunition procurement.   The Israeli Ministry of Defense has decided to commission the development and production of heavy precision bombs modeled after the American Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). According to Israeli…

Steve Claggett is no longer contractually tied to Eye of the Tiger with the Quebec-based promotion as well as the pugilist in question offering up statements on this matter. The EOTTM and Claggett partnership covered over half a decade with close to twenty prizefights within that timeline. When EOTTM President Camille Estephan touched on this recent situation, Estephan commented, “Boxing is a demanding sport, in which you sometimes have to make difficult decisions at the right time. We have always believed in prioritizing the long-term career and future of our athletes, and it is in that spirit that we have…

Former Navy SEAL Capt. Daron Miller found a new definition of strength when he shifted his focus from elite performance to a career as a U.S. Army chaplain, using his background to support soldiers.At 19, Miller was searching for something difficult to accomplish and a way to define his identity. While browsing a book about Navy SEALs, he found his challenge.“I decided to join the Navy and become a SEAL before I even paid for the book,” Miller said in an Army release.The book mentioned that candidates in the final phase of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, or BUD/S, were required…

The Portuguese Navy has conducted shipborne flight trials of unmanned systems from the Vasco da Gama-class frigate NRP Álvares Cabral (F331). The activity was carried out by X31, the service’s specialist unit for unmanned systems, during the frigate’s deployment on the Iniciativa Mar Aberto 2026 mission. According to the Portuguese Armed Forces General Staff, the trials were intended to validate operating procedures, safety arrangements and interoperability in demanding naval conditions. Operating an uncrewed aircraft from a warship involves substantially more than flying the vehicle. The crew and operators must coordinate launch and recovery, deck safety, airspace management, communications, command-and-control links…

The Marine Corps is fielding tracked robots that crawl the seabed, transit the surf zone, and hunt mines and unexploded ordnance on the beach itself. The Bayonet Autonomous Underwater Ground Vehicles give explosive ordnance disposal teams a way to survey and clear the most dangerous stretch of the approach without first putting Marines in the water. Recent awards to Greensea IQ cover Bayonet 250 systems under the Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization, or LEON, family of systems. The contract forms part of the service’s effort to place unmanned platforms into high-risk roles that once required divers or dismounted teams. Bayonet 250…

Few rifles have given the .50 BMG cartridge a reputation quite like the McMillan TAC-50. It is a large, heavy bolt-action rifle, yet its story isn’t really about size. It’s about what happens when a powerful cartridge is built around precision rather than volume of fire.The TAC-50 emerged from McMillan’s experience with .50-caliber rifle designs and eventually found its way into military service, most notably with Canada’s C15 Long Range Sniper Weapon and the U.S. Navy’s Mk 15 Mod 0. Its reputation grew further through extraordinary long-range battlefield engagements, including a widely reported 3,540-meter shot in Iraq in 2017.But focusing…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Earlier today, Chinese firm LandSpace achieved the country’s first successful recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster on land. This follows China’s first-ever recovery of a reusable space launch rocket booster last month, which state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) conducted at sea using a specially configured ship. Reusable boosters can lower costs and increase the tempo of launches dramatically, which would be extremely beneficial for China’s already massively expanding military and national security space enterprise. It could also…

Merab Dvalishvili and Henry Cejudo are having their wrestling rematch this weekend for RAF, and a previous RAF opponent of Dvalishvili thinks Cejudo is being catered to a bit here. Frankie Edgar is the wrestler in question who lost to Dvalishvili, but the former UFC lightweight champ would then bounce back to beat Clay Guida on points at RAF 11. In Cejudo’s initial Real American Freestyle contest with Dvalishvili, already a quasi rematch after the latter beat the former in the UFC, saw ‘Triple C’ put together a sizable lead all throughout. Dvalishvili would then rally and end up getting…

President Donald Trump’s new plan to enlist private companies to help disrupt cybercriminals abroad may face a fundamental problem when it comes to Russia: distinguishing criminal hackers and state-backed operatives.Russian intelligence services have long tolerated, protected or intermittently recruited financially-motivated hackers without exercising full control over them. That dynamic gives Moscow easier access to hacking talent, and it complicates a major carveout in Trump’s new directive that excludes groups part of or directed by a foreign government, experts and former U.S. officials say.“The line between government control, government-affiliated and government-acknowledged is certainly blurry in Russia,” said Michael Daniel, president and…