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Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) ERA has announced that it had been awarded a contract to deliver an ADS-B surveillance system to help with Air Traffic Control at the Palonegro International Airport located in the city of Bucaramanga, 200 km to the north of the Colombian capital Bogotá. ERA is proud to add Colombia as the 73rd country to the list of partners using ERA technologies and thus begin to penetrate yet another continent. In accordance with the bid specifications, ERA will supply the MSS-5-D Standard Stand-Alone Station, a derivate product of its surveillance system MSS-5 (the latest generation of Multilateration…

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we’ll provide you with expert analysis on America’s greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranA month after negotiators met for historic high-level talks in Pakistan, Washington and Tehran seem closer to a breakdown of the ceasefire that U.S. President Donald Trump announced on April 7 than a breakthrough. In addition to its blockade of Iranian shipping, the United States has been stepping up sanctions against Iran as part of “Economic Fury,” announcing several tranches of designations in recent days targeting its oil trade and banking networks. The toll on…

Members of Congress on Thursday encouraged U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders to prioritize America’s maritime industrial base amid recent discussions about potentially building ships abroad.Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle spoke about the fiscal 2027 Defense Department budget request at a House Armed Services Committee hearing attended by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith. The hearing comes several days after the Navy released a shipbuilding plan that codified the possibility of the service looking to foreign partners for help.“I will echo some of my Democrat…

Global Times By Global Times Published: May 14, 2026 11:51 AM The Zhuque-2E Y5 carrier rocket, developed by Chinese commercial aerospace firm LandSpace, blasted off from the company’s launch site at Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Test Zone on Thursday. The rocket successfully completed all flight mission procedures as planned, and the launch was declared a complete success, according to the company. The Global Times observed the mission from the company’s headquarters in Beijing. The launch carried a 2.8-ton customized experimental payload designed for large-scale constellation networking to the 900-kilometer-orbit. A representative from the company told the Global Times that this…

Real American Freestyle is heading to Sin City.The promotion announced on Thursday that RAF 14 is set to take place in Las Vegas. The event goes down Oct. 3 inside the Fontainebleau’s BleauLive Theater.“From day one, the vision for RAF was to build a platform big enough for the best wrestlers in the world and the biggest moments in sports,” RAF co-founder Chad Bronstein said in a press release. “Las Vegas represents that better than anywhere. Fontainebleau is an incredible stage, and we’re bringing together the best athletes in the world for a night that’s going to feel massive.”Matchups will…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping delivered a blunt threat to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that any misstep over Taiwan could push the two economic superpowers toward direct confrontation. “The Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-U.S. relations,” Xi told Trump during a summit in Beijing, according to a Chinese government readout. “If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability. Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts, putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.” For decades, Washington’s ties with Taipei has remained one of the most combustible flashpoints in U.S.-China…

Dear Industry – Cut The Slop Dear Industry, For the past several years we have been VERY generous here at SSD in publishing your press releases free of charge, regardless of whether you are an advertiser or not. What’s more, despite being very clear that we don’t accept them in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) we’ve republished entirely too many, even though they take a great deal of time to correct the multiple issues you introduce by sharing them in such a ridiculous format. But now things have gone too far. Many of you have begun to use AI to create…

Rafael introduces a miniature EW system for uncrewed aerial platforms. Credit: miss.cabul/Shutterstock.com. Israeli defence technology company Rafael has introduced Storm Shield, a miniature electronic warfare (EW) system designed for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). Debuted internationally at the AOC Electronic Warfare conference in Helsinki, Finland, the system is a lightweight EW solution designed to provide uncrewed platforms with self-protection capabilities against various threats. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more Storm Shield features an active electronically scanned array (AESA) transmitter with solid-state radio and telemetry…

Javon Wright holds the BKB Police Gazette welterweight championship, which will be defended in the co-main event of BKB 54’s Mayhem in Manchester offering on May 16th. Wright will clash with Dan Gittens in a bout that was cancelled in January. When speaking to the timeline piece of this fight finally coming to fruition after tensions have been mounting throughout the calendar year, Javon Wright said [via Bare Knuckle Bowker], “Right. I’m looking forward to it too, my man. Like I said, dude been running his mouth a lot since January. So, I’m hoping he gonna back up all that…

Seahawk Medium Uncrewed Surface Vessel (MUSV) protoype departs Naval Base Point Loma, California, 6 August 2025. Credit: DVIDS. Figures in the US Navy Shipbuilding Plan suggest the service will double its MUSVs These vessels constitue the multi-purpose laydown trucks of the sea, allowing for distributed operations The MUSV segment is anticipated to make up more than 18% of the combined fleet in 2031 Published earlier this week, the US Navy Shipbuilding Plan revealed that the service will double the production of Medium Uncrewed Surface Vessels (MUSVs) between 2027 and 2031. The US Navy will deploy these autonomous vessels in a…