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The MMA world leader’s grappling arm hosts another Brazilian jiu-jitsu (BJJ) event, with UFC BJJ 8 happening TONIGHT (Thursday, May 21, 2026) inside the UFC’s Meta Apex venue in Las Vegas, Nevada.The event will be topped by two title bouts and headlined by the face of the promotion in Mikey Musumeci defending his UFC BJJ bantamweight title again against a relatively unheralded opponent in Kevin Dantzler. The second title bout on the card features the surging Cassia Moura in her first title defense against Sabrina Gondim.A very promising bout between former Polaris champ Keith Krikorian and EBI champ Landon Elmore…

Eviden © Eviden, the Atos Group product branch leading in mission-critical systems, today announces the launch of ELIT AI, Avantix’s next-generation radar interceptor. Developed by Avantix, Eviden’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) center of expertise, ELIT AI is an ELINT sensor whose capabilities are augmented by artificial intelligence. It enables real-time tactical radar situational awareness, faster visualization and identification of next-generation complex radar waves. The next-generation ELIT AI sensor is designed for the detection, analysis and identification of radar signals for tactical situational awareness and SIGINT. ELIT AI consists of a flexible and scalable hardware and software platform that can be integrated…

Sometime during the late 1800s, when the Austro-Hungarian Empire still stretched from the Adriatic Sea to modern-day Ukraine, a Hungarian entered a bookstore in Vienna and asked the clerk, “Can you sell me a globe of Hungary?” By so perfectly capturing the hubris of a people who feel their nation is the world, the story has become apocryphal. Of course, within a generation, Hungary would be stripped of two-thirds of its territory by the Treaty of Trianon, making the globe-buyer’s pride seem less farcical and almost tragic in retrospect.But the story takes on yet another meaning today because, in the…

Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft. Credit: Victor Maschek/Shutterstock.com. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics has secured a firm-fixed-price order worth $991.13 million to produce and deliver material modification kits for F-35 aircraft.  This order, issued under an existing basic ordering agreement, involves the supply of 432 kits designed for upgrade and retrofit of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.  Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more According to contract details provided by the Department of War (DoW), the material modification kits will support electronic warfare system modernisation and related capability upgrades.  Distribution of the kits…

Federal authorities say a Chinese national who worked as a research scholar at the University of Michigan lied about his work on drones in the People’s Republic of China. According to a criminal complaint filed last week, Chuan Wang allegedly denied involvement in the production of military products during an interview with customs officers in 2023 when in reality he ran a company that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles and drones for the Chinese military. According to the complaint, Wang entered the United States in 2012 on a visa for visiting students and scholars to conduct research on aeroelastic…

The U.S. Marine Corps is accelerating its transition away from legacy tactical aircraft and toward an all-F-35 fighter force, marking one of the most significant aviation restructurings in modern Marine Corps history. A recent Marine administrative message (MARADMIN) confirmed the service will fully phase out the F/A-18 Hornet by 2030 while pushing Marines in Hornet-related maintenance fields to transition into F-35 specialties and other critical aviation jobs. The transition has been underway for years, but recent Marine Corps planning documents and force restructuring announcements show the service is now entering the final stages of consolidating tactical aviation almost entirely around…

Iran Press TV Monday, 18 May 2026 2:33 AM Cuba’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has firmly asserted the island nation’s sovereign right to defend itself against any potential US military aggression, in line with international law and the UN Charter. In an interview with Russia’s TASSnews agency, Ernesto Sobrón Guzmán rejected US claims portraying Cuba as a threat, stating unequivocally that “Cuba is no threat to the United States’ national security. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying.” He emphasized Cuba’s legitimate right to self-defense in the face of military invasion or fabricated pretexts by Washington. These…

Killing incoming drones has become a must on the battlefield, and following initial periods when expensive missiles were used to cope with this new threat, in an economic-asymmetric fight, new assets have been developed to ensure defence against those enemy assets. One of them is the interceptor drone and STM (Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik, Defence Technologies Engineering), the Turkish company which has been engaged in the loitering munitions business for over a decade, unveiled its interceptor drone named Tunga X at the Istanbul exhibition click on image to enlarge With the typical architecture of interceptor drones, a fuselage, in this case…

Abstract The May 2025 India–Pakistan crisis and the United States–Israel–Iran war that began on 28 February 2026 have transformed the global perception of Chinese military technology. From the J-10C and PL-15 fighter engagements over the Line of Control, the de facto border between Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, to the suspected use of BeiDou for Iranian missile guidance, the steady flow of Chinese precursor chemicals, sensors, and dual-use components to Tehran, Beijing’s defense-industrial offer is no longer a marginal alternative to the Western arms market. It is becoming a parallel ecosystem. This article examines what “buying Chinese” buys: competitive pricing, flexible…

The Kraken Technology Group’s K3 Scout is manufactured in Germany and ordered by the Royal Navy. (Kraken) Given the global market for autonomous and uncrewed systems, the Royal Navy should collaborate with commercial partners, including private financiers and other governments, to quickly establish an integrated frigate force for anti-submarine warfare, consisting of crewed, uncrewed, and autonomous platforms — which was one of the 2025 UK Strategic Defence Review recommendations.  As a result, the Royal Navy has awarded a £12.3 million contract to the UK Kraken Technology Group for 20 K3 Scout uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) to be used by the…