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Hanwha’s K9 Mobile Howitzer. Credit: © Hanwha Group. Hanwha Defense USA (HDUSA), a subsidiary of Hanwha Group, is setting up an integration and test facility for its K9 mobile howitzers in Opelika, Alabama.   The site, according to the group’s statement on 4 May 2026, will function as the primary US location for the assembly and evaluation of the K9 family of artillery systems. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs Combine business intelligence and editorial excellence to reach engaged professionals across 36 leading media platforms. Find out more As part of this development, HDUSA has entered into a three-year lease, committing…

A fragile truce in the Middle East was under strain on Tuesday after the U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in the Gulf as they wrestled for control of the Strait of Hormuz.Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, said in a social media post on Tuesday breaches of the four-week-old ceasefire by the United States and its allies had endangered shipping and energy transit through the vital waterway.“We know well that the continuation of the current situation is unbearable for the United States, while we have not even begun yet,” he said. The fresh volleys of missiles and drones came after…

The recent exchange of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz does not constitute a breach of the fragile four-week ceasefire, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Tuesday.Since the truce took hold, Iran has mounted more than 10 attacks on American forces, Caine told reporters at a Pentagon press briefing. But he characterized the hostile actions as “all below the threshold of restarting major combat operations at this point.” Demarcating that threshold is “a political decision above my pay grade,” Caine said, before adding, “It’s low, harassing fire right…

CISA is warning that a newly-disclosed Linux kernel bug dubbed “CopyFail” is already being exploited, just days after researchers dropped a working root-level exploit. Tracked as CVE-2026-31431, the bug sits in the Linux kernel and gives low-level users a way to take full control of a system by modifying data they should only be able to read, effectively turning limited access into full root privileges on unpatched machines. The issue was disclosed by cybersecurity consultancy Theori, which said the flaw was discovered by its AI-powered penetration testing platform, Xint, and reported to the Linux kernel security team on March 23.…

BINGEN, Washington, May 4, 2026 – Insitu, a Boeing Company, has been selected to provide ISR support services to the United States Navy (USN), United States Marine Corps (USMC) and other United States Government (USG) customers as directed, under a Contractor-Owned, Contractor-Operated (COCO) model. Insitu will compete with other selected partners for task orders with both ScanEagle and Integrator UAS, offering these customers unparalleled flexibility in capability, range, endurance, and operational profiles. “We have been providing ISR services to the USN since 2005 and the USMC since 2004 and are honored to be selected to bring our enhanced versions of…

Science and technology (S&T) are central pillars of China’s national strategy, underpinning the country’s ambitions for economic modernization, global competitiveness, and national security. In this report, the authors provide an analysis of how China conceptualizes S&T as part of its broader national strategy. The authors draw on a variety of publicly available sources, including official Chinese government documents, China’s policy statements, Chinese and international academic literature, and international reports. The report begins with the historical and political context that has shaped China’s approaches to S&T. The authors then examine the policy landscape since 2012 under Xi Jinping’s leadership, focusing on…

CZ-USA announced a series of leadership transitions designed to ensure continuity and support the company’s continued expansion in the U.S. market. Following a year of strong revenue and profit growth, these changes position the organization for sustained success and a seamless evolution of leadership. After two years of rebuilding the CZ brand in the U.S. market, Petr Pistelak, President of CZ-USA, will transition back to Colt CZ Group in the Czech Republic, where he will oversee international sales initiatives for Colt and Dan Wesson. This transition is driven by family medical considerations. Pistelak’s primary objective during his tenure was to…

The year 2026 has brought a brutal reminder that food security is intricately related to energy, shipping routes, industrial capacity and geopolitical exposure. The conflict in the Middle East has disrupted energy markets and increased concern about the Strait of Hormuz, a route that matters not only for oil and gas, but ammonia, urea and phosphate-based fertilizers. The International Fertilizer Association warned that Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain together accounted in 2024 for 23 percent of global ammonia trade, 34 percent of global urea trade and 18 percent of global ammoniated phosphate trade. The implications are serious…

The US military test-fired the Typhon mid-range capability system in the Philippines for the first time, as part of the two countries’ largest joint military exercises. The Typhon system fired a Tomahawk cruise missile shortly after midnight Tuesday from Tacloban City Airport in Leyte, striking its intended target at Fort Magsaysay in Laur, Nueva Ecija, in mainland Luzon—about 600 kilometers away—roughly an hour later, Balikatan spokesperson Col. Dennis Hernandez told reporters. The Tomahawk is an intermediate-range, subsonic cruise missile capable of striking targets up to 1,000 miles away and can be redirected in mid-flight. This marked the first test in…

May 5, 2026 Audio of this article is brought to you by the Air & Space Forces Association, honoring and supporting our Airmen, Guardians, and their families. Find out more at afa.org Most government software programs that fail never had a software problem. They had an acquisition problem. Bryon Kroger, founder and CEO of Rise8, traces his career path to a single incident. As a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer running targeting operations, he investigated a software failure and traced it back to requirements written eight years earlier. Development finished a year before the incident. The software was complete but…