Footage of Iranian IRGC Navy exercises on the defense of the island of Abu Musa and other islands located at the entrance to the Persian Gulf from the Strait of Hormuz.

These Iranian islands (claimed by the UAE) are of great strategic importance, being one of the cornerstones of Iran's defensive strategy in the region.

Detachments of small missile boats are based on these small islands, various missile systems, cannon and rocket artillery are located there, airfields, etc. are built.

NYT:

Ukrainian military set aside US tactics during counteroffensive.

The bottom line is that the American way of waging war differs from the Russian one by decentralizing the management of various units in battle.

But on the battlefield, Ukrainian Army faced significant mining and massive shelling.

Ukrainian commanders changed their tactics: They began to wear down the enemy's forces with artillery and rockets.

Russian Su-34, after dropping unguided bombs, passes at low altitude over the positions of Ukrainian soldiers.

This is how the lack of mass guided weapons turns a fighter jet into literally a suicide machine.

Only Ukrainian’s lack of anti-aircraft weapons does not make this passage the last.

Ukrainian Army’s French-made 155mm CAESAR self-propelled howitzer reportedly firing US-made 155mm M864 cluster munition.

155mm M864 artillery shells with extended range (29km), each carrying 72 dual-purpose submunitions.

Ukrainian volunteers have developed people's cruise missile: Trembita

It was developed in two versions: a regular rocket and a decoy rocket.

The fake target will be very cheap, which will make it extremely unprofitable to destroy it & will deplete enemy air defenses.

Trembita will have a thermobaric warhead & combined HE fragmentation warhead weighing 20 kg.

Wreckage of Russian Shahed-136 (Geran) kamikaze UAV used in Izmail on the Danube River in Odesa.

The UAV has a tail number of “Y089” which indicates the ongoing localization of the production of Shahed-136s.

Russification of Iran’s Shaheds continues.

Ukrainian forces destroyed another Russian Buk air defence system hiding in the forest with HIMARS strike in Bakhmut direction.

Poland handed over all 200 promised Rosomak APCs to Ukraine.

Russian Wagner PMC mercenary Igor Sofonov who returned from the war killed 6 people.

The incident took place in the village of Derevyanoe in the Republic of Karelia.

37-year-old criminal Sofonov was released from prison to participate in the war against Ukraine.

Belarusian Army flexing their muscles.

Wagner chief Prigozhin on Niger coup:

This is a liberation struggle, a liberation movement for the independence of Niger and God grant them health, and that they succeed.

AP:

U.S. Army may put troops on commercial ships to stop Iran seizures.