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Joint Base Charleston is now officially Joint Base Lindsey Graham, honoring the late senator from South Carolina who served for decades in the U.S. Air Force.The Pentagon announced late last month that the base, located in North Charleston, South Carolina, would be renamed after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. The renaming took place Monday with a ceremony attended by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as well as state and local officials.A late July memo, signed by Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink, directed staff to begin working with Air Mobility Command and Joint Base Charleston to…

China has already fielded hypersonic weapons such as the DF-17 medium-range missile. (PLA)The Indo-Pacific region is poised to witness a dramatic shift in its security landscape, driven by the rapid development and deployment of hypersonic-missile technology. These emerging weapons – capable of travelling at speeds exceeding Mach 5 (6,174km/h), and possessing the ability to manoeuvre mid-flight across significant distances – potentially eliminate the tyranny of distance that has often provided some degree of natural protection for regional countries.If successfully fielded, hypersonic missiles represent unprecedented challenges to existing regional air defence systems. Their speed, manoeuvrability and unpredictable flightpaths render them extremely…

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.— Lockheed Martin’s new ICBM killer, ordered two years ago to supersede the oft-troubled GMD interceptor, hit two major milestones this week and is expected to clear the design phase later this year, company officials said.The company said last week that its L3Harris Technologies L3Harris Technologies, or NGI, had completed a critical burst test of its second-stage motor case. On Monday, ahead of the Space and Missile Defense Symposium here, Lockheed Martin announced that they had successfully fired its stage 2 rocket motor in a static test. Company officials said NGI, ordered under the Biden administration to replace the nation’s…

Kleber Koike treats his RIZIN 54 main event clash against Kyoma Akimoto on Tuesday as his final chance to earn a shot and regain the RIZIN featherweight title, and watching the Japanese promotion partner with the PFL — and automatically MVP — gives him extra motivation to pursue more gold.Koike, who turns 37 in October, said the promotion has already made it official that the winner of the RIZIN 54 main event will challenge for the 145-pound belt next. RIZIN featherweight champion Razhabali Shaydullaev is currently slated to face A.J. McKee Jr. on Sept. 10, looking to defend his RIZIN…

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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 CHARLESTON, S.C.—A major East Coast military base that serves as a key Air Force logistics hub was renamed after the late Sen. Lindsey Graham here Aug. 10 in a ceremony led by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Graham’s sister Sen. Darline Graham. The new name of Joint Base Charleston is Joint Base Lindsey Graham in honor of South Carolina’s former senior senator, who died July 11 in Washington, D.C., at…

Trending:Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: “You’re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ”The UFC was back at the Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday for UFC Vegas 120. In the main event, Quillan Salkilld took on Mateusz Gamrot in a fan-friendly lightweight scrap. Salkilld was set for his first UFC main event and was coming off a first-round TKO over Beneil Dariush. Gamrot, meanwhile, was coming off a submission win over Esteban Ribovics to return to the win column. Ultimately, it was Salkilld who got his hand raised with a submission win in the first round…

As U.S. air defenses intercept Iranian missiles, the Pentagon is concerned that American missiles are vulnerable to enemy air defenses.Consequently, DARPA wants a hypersonic scramjet cruise missile that is capable of evading enemy interceptors.“Future U.S. military operations face increasingly significant challenges from the rapid proliferation and advancement of highly capable Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) by peer adversaries,” warned DARPA’s Request for Information, which is due October 6. “These systems threaten to restrict the operational freedom of U.S. forces and diminish the effectiveness of current stand-off strike capabilities.”The Next Generation Hypersonic Cruise Missile, or NGHCM, aims to demonstrate that it…

Watch UFC 330 Countdown above to see how Makhachev and Garry ended up on the path to Saturday’s main event in Philadelphia, as well as an inside look at Mackenzie Dern and Gillian Robertson’s fight camps as they prepare to battle for Dern’s strawweight championship.Makhachev has won 16 straight fights, including a UFC record four consecutive lightweight title defenses and a five-round domination over Jack Della Maddalena to become welterweight champion at UFC 322 this past November. A protégé of the famed Nurmagomedov family, Makhachev continues to carve out his own legacy and build his case to be considered among…

The start of the 2027 fiscal year is less than two months away, and in typical fashion, the annual defense budget is in limbo. Three out of Congress’ four defense committees have released markups that adhere to the Trump administration’s $1.1 trillion topline request. None has addressed the White House’s proposal to spend another $350 billion through the unusual use of reconciliation funding, though discussions are underway for a smaller reconciliation package that could include money sought in a supplemental request for operations in Iran and other priorities.The administration’s decision to seek funding for many of its top priorities through the reconciliation process—until last year, it had never been…