U.S. airstrikes targeting IRGC-linked warehouse & secondary explosions in Iraq tonight.

WSJ reports Jordanian aircraft are also slated to join in U.S. operation and have been assigned targets.

Jordan’s role is unusual and is intended to demonstrate solidarity with the U.S. following the drone strike on Tower 22, an outpost in Jordan near the Syrian border.

Low on ammo, Ukraine is trying to build 1,000,000 drones using the capacities of small scattered enterprises, WSJ reports.

Manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles make their enterprises small - a couple of dozen employees in one building, in order to keep production a secret.

Currently, Ukraine produces 62 types of drones. Work is underway to make them fly further, carry more load and have good protection against EW.

Only one enterprise, consisting of a couple of dozen workers, produces 3,000 FPV-UAVs per month and plans to increase production to 10,000 drones.

Most parts are made on 3D printers independently.

Ukraine has already destroyed 20% of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Bild reports.

In the spring of 2022, Russia had more than 70 ships, and their propaganda called it “invincible.”

Since then, a total of 13 ships have been destroyed on the open sea and in the docks, as well as the Black Sea Fleet headquarters building in Sevastopol.

Polish President Duda questions the return of Crimea to Ukraine:

I don’t know whether Ukraine will return Crimea, but I believe that it will return Donetsk and Luhansk.

According to Duda, Crimea “is a special place... including for historical reasons. Because most of the time it was in the hands of the Russian Federation.”

Sudanese Army bomber drone strike on RSF fuel tanks.

New Ukrainian kamikaze drone with a 40mm RPG-7 projectile.

No info on range.

British Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier to miss NATO drills.

During last-minute checks ahead of sailing for NATO exercise Steadfast Defender, it has been discovered that HMS Queen Elizabeth has a significant issue with her starboard propeller shaft.

The ship will not sail on 4th February as planned and instead, HMS Prince of Wales will be readied to replace her.

Zelensky visited Robotyne, Zaporizhzhia.

Robotyne is ground zero, just a a few kilometers from the direct front line.

China named as hypothetical enemy for 1st time in Japan-U.S. exercise.

Japanese Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military named China as a hypothetical enemy for the first time in their joint command post exercise.

U.S. Senator Graham:

The only Iranian we killed in Syria or Iraq is some dumbass that doesn’t know to get out of the way. We gave him a week's notice.

American-supplied Ukrainian M1A1 Abrams tank of the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade was spotted in the Avdiivka direction.

Trump:

Israel was supposed to take part in the assassination of Soleimani with us.

Two days before the assassination, they said to us “we can't do it.”

I said “what?”. So we decided to do it ourselves.

Israel was part of it, Bibi was a big part of it.

Türkiye agrees to provide UAVs to Egypt.

At least four members of Iran-backed Fatemiyoun Brigade were killed in US strikes in Syria:

Mohammad Ali Akbari, Hamza Alavi, Ali Hosseini and Mohammad Reza Sadat Alavi.

Fatemiyoun Brigade is an Afghan Shia militia formed in 2014 to fight in Syria on the side of Assad regime.

It is funded, trained, and equipped by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and fights under the command of Iranian officers.