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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. A new type of submarine that appears to lack a traditional sail has emerged in China. The same shipyard launched a smaller ‘sailless’ submarine — a technology demonstrator — eight years ago. More recently, a top Chinese shipbuilding conglomerate put forward a concept for an uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) with a broadly comparable hullform. Designs of this kind can offer benefits in terms of speed, maneuverability, and reduced acoustic signature, but also have major drawbacks. TWZ has obtained imagery of the submarine…

An all-time MMA great has alleged that the UFC is no longer interested in signing Dagestani or Russian fighters. Over the years, Dagestani fighters with world-class Sambo and Judo have shown the world how to dominate strikers and win fights while taking minimal damage. Khabib Nurmagomedov set the standard, and now pound-for-pound king and two-division champ Islam Makhachev, Umar Nurmagomedov, and many others are following his lead. Meanwhile, outside the UFC, Usman Nurmagomedov has showcased the same dominant Dagestani style and achieved success. However, a portion of the MMA community is not fond of wrestling-heavy fight styles and instead prefers…

Charai for The National Interest: Iran’s Mafia State Understands Only Law Backed by Power – Atlantic Council In the News June 4, 2026 • 1:01am ET By Atlantic Council Print this page Share this page ERROR MESSAGE HEADING ERROR MESSAGE SUBHEADING ERROR MESSAGE CONTENT ERROR MESSAGE INFO Oops… It looks like we’re having a technical issue. If refreshing the page doesn’t resolve the issue you could try clearing the sites browser cache. Pro Tip: If you’re on a laptop or desktop you can flush everything the browser currently has cached for the site by simply holding down the…

All these years later, Rousey is back in the limelight after her win over Gina Carano (highlights here) at the inaugural MVP MMA event live on Netflix. Though Rousey intends to return to retirement after that showcase win, she didn’t miss the opportunity to fire shots at Holm and insist she would “clean her clock” if they did throw down.Holm has since fired back, reminding Rousey that she has never wanted any part of a rematch.“You can say one thing, and actions are another,” Holm told Ariel Helwani (via Curtis Calhoun). “She’s always going to be more of that type…

Hiromasa Ougikubo looks to shine brightly at Rizin Landmark 14 on June 6th when he defends his RFF flyweight championship in a rematch against Makoto Shinryu. Touching on this looming sequel clash in the contest of what he sees as defined differences within his opponent, as compared to what he faced off with in their Super Rizin 3 fight in July 2024, Ougikubo said [via Bowks Talking Bouts], “So Shinryu is still very young, and it’s already been two years and I think young fighters can develop a lot in two years. He’s been training at ATT, and I’m sure…

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order formally converting nearly 10,000 career federal workers into Schedule Policy/Career, making them effectively at-will employees.The edict marks the culmination of a years-long push to make it easier to fire federal employees in “policy-related” jobs by removing them from the federal government’s competitive service and placing them in a new job category, initially called Schedule F and now referred to as Schedule Policy/Career. Employees placed into the new schedule would no longer be able to challenge adverse personnel actions before the Merit Systems Protection Board, and whistleblower complaints filed by Schedule F employees…

A group of lawmakers demanded answers from the White House this week following a ProPublica investigation revealing that a top aide to the president intervened to secure a $620 million Pentagon loan to a startup linked to the president’s eldest son.ProPublica’s reporting “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence peddling that superseded this process, enriching the President’s son at the expense of U.S. national security and taxpayer dollars,” wrote the group of Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii as well as Reps. Jason Crow of Colorado and Mike Levin of California.Last…

POHANG, South Korea – The U.S. Navy and the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) concluded the 2026 ROK-U.S. Combined Mine Warfare Exercise in the vicinity of Pohang, April 20-24, 2026. During the five-day exercise, U.S. Navy and ROKN units worked together to clear a route for ships through a simulated minefield. They utilized advanced mine hunting, detection, and neutralization capabilities, which included the underwater detonation of a simulated mine. This Combined Mine Warfare Exercise is part of an annual series of exercises between the U.S. Navy and ROKN designed to increase proficiency in mine countermeasure operations. The partners continue to…

Iran Press TV Wednesday, 03 June 2026 7:12 AM Lebanon’sHezbollah resistance movement says it has inflicted heavy blows on Israeli forces in the southern Lebanese town of al-Bayyada amid mounting failures in Israel’s military invasion and growing vulnerability of its troops to advanced resistance tactics. Hezbollah announced on Wednesday a series of attacks against Israeli forces in al-Bayyada in southern Lebanon, saying its fighters targeted an Israeli military command center with a barrage of rockets. The group also reported striking an Israeli military unit stationed in the town with missiles and said the same unit was targeted again in a…

Iran Press TV Wednesday, 03 June 2026 1:21 AM The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced that its forces carried out retaliatory strikes against an enemy vessel, the headquarters of the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, and a regional American airbase following two acts of US aggression targeting Iranian assets. In a statement released by its Public Relations Office on Wednesday, the IRGC said the developments began late at night when an Iranian oil tanker was struck near the Strait of Hormuz. According to the statement, “Late last night, the aggressive US military struck an Iranian oil tanker with…