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CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — Humphreys High School culinary arts students demonstrated their skills during a visit from celebrity chef and longtime military advocate Robert Irvine. The visit connected DoWEA classroom instruction with a world-renowned working professional in food service.The stop at Camp Humphrey’s was part of a five-day morale tour across the Korean Peninsula. The Robert Irvine Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the well-being of service members, veterans, first responders and their families through food, wellness and community programs, partnered with Armed Forces Entertainment for the tour.“I travel 345 days a year around the globe to visit our service…

Everyone Owns a Requirement. No One Owns the Graduate. Abstract The Naval War College has developed a curriculum in which nearly every individual requirement can be defended, yet no single actor is explicitly accountable for the overall weight, sequencing, and coherence. Using the Bradley Fighting Vehicle as an analogy, this article argues for student-centered governance built around a graduate mission profile, a fixed curriculum-weight budget, explicit trade-offs for additions, sunset dates, cross-departmental integration, periodic zero-based review, and a senior academic leader accountable for the complete graduate experience. In the 1998 satire The Pentagon Wars, the Bradley Fighting Vehicle starts life…

NASHUA, NH – Oct. 6, 2026 – BAE Systems has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver high-performance electronic warfare (EW) systems for F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, giving them unmatched situational awareness and self-protection on the battlefield. Building on a long-standing alliance with Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office, BAE Systems continues production at scale for the global F-35 fleet. “We’ve been a trusted contributor since the origin of the Joint Strike Fighter program, and we’ve continuously evolved our EW hardware and software to maintain our warfighters’ decisive battlespace advantage,” said Amber Dolan, Vice President of…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The testing plan for the U.S. Air Force’s sixth-generation F-47 fighter is continuing to take shape ahead of the type’s expected first flight in 2028. The Air Force Test Center (AFTC) aims to blend developmental and operational test elements, and leverage new tools in the virtual realm, to help accelerate that work. All of this is in support of an aggressive program schedule that aims to see the first production F-47s enter operational service in the early 2030s. Air Force Brig. Gen.…

Home › UFC News › Michael Chandler Drops Three-Word Reaction To Chris Hemsworth’s Impressive MMA Training Footage Michael Chandler reacted to Chris Hemsworth’s impressive training footage that the latter shared on social media. The 43-year-old actor took to Instagram to share several clips of himself hitting the pads, throwing combos, and unleashing vicious kicks while training with Thai boxing instructor Boonsanong Borchae (aka Jack). Hemsworth is currently in Thailand for the shooting of Extraction 3. He captioned the post: Shooting Extraction 3 in Thailand and have been lucky enough to hit pads with my good mate @jack_boonsanong Thank you brother.…

The Bushmaster continues to evolve, with the BladeHaul uncrewed variant and the C-UAS version being the latest manifestations. (Thales Australia)On 6 October 2026, Thales Australia unveiled an extra-large unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), as well as a Bushmaster dual-cab variant optimised for the counter-drone role, at the Land Forces exhibition in Perth, Western Australia.The heavy-duty UGV, christened the BladeHaul, is designed for contested logistics, and it is large enough to carry a 20-foot container or an alternative payload weighing 10 tonnes.The BladeHaul is based on the chassis and driveline of Thales Australia’s well-known Bushmaster 4×4 protected mobility vehicle. However, its mechanicals…

Black Friday is one of those rare moments when people arrive on your site ready to act.  You’ve got the offer, the audience, and a reason for them to pay attention – now you want all that work to turn into sales, bookings, subscriptions, or signups. The last stretch isn’t about rebuilding your site or inventing another promotion. It’s about making sure the campaign works as well for your customer as it does in your head. Here are 10 practical checks that cover the whole customer journey to make the path from promotion to confirmation as clear and reliable as…

We’ve had some improbable champs through the history of the sport, I’ll list five in no particular order that stand out to me. -. Michael Bisping (Middleweight Champion)
After winning The Ultimate Fighter 3, Bisping spent a full decade in the UFC as a tough, consistent contender and frequent gatekeeper. He was widely seen as a high-level veteran who would never quite break through to the title. At 37, he stepped in on short notice (17 days’ notice) against Luke Rockhold and scored a shocking second-round knockout to win the belt in 2016—one of the most unlikely title wins in UFC…

One year and a half since the start of the program, GDELS’ Spanish entity Santa BárbaraSistemas officially handed over the first Latvian-assembled HUNTER infantry fighting vehicle to the Latvian National Armed Forces during a ceremonial event. The contract concluded between GDELS–Santa Bárbara Sistemas, and the Latvian Ministry of Defense provides for a total of 84 such combat vehicles to Latvia by 2029, with at least 30% local industrial participation in the execution of the program. The HUNTER infantry fighting vehicle is the last generation of the ASCOD tracked platform specially designed to meet Latvia’s requirements and operational needs. HUNTER was…

MDA Space’s Aurora low Earth orbit satellite, a rendering of which is shown here, will form the basis of the ESCP-P constellation commissioned by the Canadian government to help improve satellite communications in the Arctic. (MDA Space)Canada’s enrichment of her Arctic military Satellite Communications (SATCOM) coverage has taken an important step forward.In August Telesat secured a 15-year contract worth $1.93 billion for the provision of military Ka-band (26.5 gigahertz/GHz to 40GHz uplink/18GHz to 20GHz downlink) coverage at latitudes of between 65 degrees and 90 degrees north, according to a press release. The contract forms part of the Canadian armed forces’…