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The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. The saga of the Constellation class frigate is emblematic of so many chronic issues with the Navy’s way of procuring warships. The vessel that was supposed to make the wrongs of the Littoral Combat Ship debacle right failed spectacularly and the timing couldn’t have been worse. Now Constellation is dead and the Trump administration is building a different frigate from a different yard. While the Navy has said why it is moving on, we wanted the other side of the story. We…

PARIS — France has started exclusive negotiations with French defense firm Safran and missile maker MBDA to supply domestically produced rocket artillery as well as munitions, Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin announced at the Eurosatory defense show near Paris on Monday.France snubbed a competing offer for a multiple-rocket launcher from a team of Thales and ArianeGroup as well as options from Lockheed Martin with HIMARS and Hanwha Aerospace’s Chunmoo launcher, with Vautrin noting that the country retained a sovereign solution.French Army staff have been clamoring for a successor to its few remaining and aging M270-based LRU launchers, with deep strike…

IHG spent eight years replacing its core technology systems. Now, its CEO says, the payoff is beginning to show up in franchisee margins. Speaking in an exclusive Skift interview at the NYU IHIF conference this month, IHG CEO Elie Maalouf described an overhaul that most hotel companies are still attempting. It’s fully deployed a reservation system built with Amadeus, an AI-driven revenue-management platform from Revenue Analytics, and most guest data in Google’s cloud. The new property-management system is halfway through a rollout to roughly 4,000 hotels and is expected to finish by year-end. The result, Maalouf said, is that IHG…

“We threatened we would put astronauts in suits, in Dragon, to send a message to world that we disagreed,” one NASA official told Ars. “They didn’t care.” Reaching a resolution The standoff continued into Friday morning, when Russian astronauts appeared to back off their plans, only to subsequently approach the PrK module with a saw and the intent to remove a load-bearing bracket. Meanwhile, Roscosmos officials continued to ignore communication with NASA officials on the ground. At this point, NASA directed Crew 12—US astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev into SpaceX’s…

On May 8, 2026, satellites detected signs of an unexpected submarine volcanic eruption in the Bismarck Sea near the islands of Papua New Guinea. Over the next several weeks, plumes of steam and ash streamed over the sea, and areas of discolored water surrounded the eruption site. Relatively little is known about the ocean floor in this area or the volcanic feature that is presently erupting. But experts think the new activity, ongoing as of mid-June, might be occurring along the Titan Ridge and has the potential to form an ephemeral new island. Despite the unknowns, the effects of the…

File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket since making its public trading debut on the Nasdaq. The Starlink 17-54 mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday morning to add another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East occurred at 8:34 a.m. PDT (11:34 a.m. EDT / 1534 UTC). The rocket flew on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.  SpaceX launched the Starlink 17-54 mission using the Falcon…

The TWZ Newsletter Weekly insights and analysis on the latest developments in military technology, strategy, and foreign policy. Nearly a dozen A-10C Thunderbolt II attack jets landed at RAF Lakenheath in the U.K. earlier on Friday, sporting mission marks from operations in the Middle East as well as their distinctive nose art. The photos were taken by aviation photographer Andrew McKelvey, who told us that 11 Warthogs landed at Lakenheath at about 3 p.m. local time. McKelvey was kind enough to share his photos with us. According to the Coronet East X account, the jets belong to the 75th Fighter…

PARIS — The French Army showed off an upgraded Leclerc XLR main battle tank fitted with roof-mounted cage armor, a protective measure widely mocked on social media as “cope cages” when similar structures appeared on Russian tanks during the opening months of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but which has since proven useful against drones on the modern battlefield.The French Army technical section built a prototype of the metal cage, which is now being manufactured by KNDS France and in the process of being delivered to the tank units, said Gen. Olivier Coquet, head of the section known as STAT,…

Skydive Kansas City Pacific Aerospace P750 Crashed Near Butler Memorial Airport in Bates County, Mo. Eleven skydivers and a pilot are dead after a Skydive Kansas City plane crashed in Butler, Mo., Sunday morning. Bates County Emergency Management told USA TODAY that 11 people onboard the plane were skydivers and the 12th person was the pilot. Butler Memorial Airport is roughly 65 miles south of Kansas City. The agency said air traffic services "were not being provided at the time" of the crash. A private plane operated by Skydive Kansas City that had departed from the airport "turned around for…

“Aviation is remarkable, wondrous and contagious, but it’s a lot of work. Airshows can make it look so easy and effortless, but these students are right in the middle of the grind. Seeing firsthand that hard work pays off is something to celebrate and gives them extra motivation to keep going until the next milestone — becoming a certified flight instructor… Dayton International hosting their own air show makes it a great place to recognize the next generation of professional pilots, who are investing in their future through Wright State and our aviation program…” Source: Diane Vitas, director of Wright…