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The Caribbean Sea and Puerto Rico aren’t the only locations where the ongoing military buildup directed at Venezuela is taking place, with recent aerial imagery of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, showing a major buildup of aircraft, including 2 E-3C “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft and 28 KC-135R “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, most with the 6th Operations Group stationed at MacDill.

Photo credit: @flyrogo on X
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Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), visited Israel on Sunday, meeting with Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and other senior military leaders to discuss concerns surrounding ongoing long-range ballistic missile exercises and unusual movements in Iran, with officials worried that such exercises may in fact be a cover for a “surprise attack” on Israel, several sources have told Axios.
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The Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler, USNS Kanawha (T-AO-196), seen pierside earlier today, December 21, at the Port of Ponce in Southern Puerto Rico, supporting ongoing naval operations in the Caribbean as part of Operation Southern Spear.

Photo credit: Reuters/Eva Marie Uzcategui
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Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, Head of the Operational Training Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was seriously injured this morning when an Improvised-Explosive Device (IED) detonated under his personal vehicle in the Yasenevo District of Moscow.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump will make an unknown announcement on Monday at 4:30 P.M. EST from Mar-a-Lago, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
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Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, Head of the Operational Training Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense, was seriously injured this morning when an Improvised-Explosive Device (IED) detonated under his personal vehicle in the Yasenevo District of Moscow.
Russian state media is reporting that Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov has died from the injuries he sustained as a result of this morning’s explosion in Moscow.
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Aircraft contrails seen in the sky earlier today over several cities in Iran sparked mild panic in Israel, with many online incorrectly attributing the contrails to ballistic missile launches, either part of ongoing missile exercises by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), or a “surprise attack” against Israel.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump will make an unknown announcement on Monday at 4:30 P.M. EST from Mar-a-Lago, alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan.
Today’s announcement from President Donald J. Trump, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, will be in regard to a major announcement on shipbuilding for the U.S. Navy.
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U.S. President Donald J. Trump will unveil plans for a new fleet of large warships that will be referred to as “battleships” during today’s announcement on shipbuilding from Mar-a-Lago, alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, part of his vision for a “Golden Fleet,” according to a U.S. official and another official familiar with the discussions who spoke to the Wall Street Journal.
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According to a recent Pentagon draft report seen by Reuters, China is likely to have loaded well over 100 DF-31 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) into its latest three silo fields, located near the Chinese border with Mongolia, as the People’s Liberation Army continues with its ongoing major nuclear expansion, currently on track to field over 1,000 warheads by 2030.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry has begun to evacuate the families of diplomats from Venezuela, as tensions continue to escalate between the Maduro Regime and the United States, according to a European intelligence official who spoke to the Associated Press.
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During today’s shipbuilding announcement by President Donald J. Trump, he will unveil the “Trump-class battleship” which will be the centerpiece of his planned “Golden Fleet” for the U.S. Navy, led by the first ship of the class, the USS Defiant, several officials with knowledge of the announcement told the Wall Street Journal.
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The U.S. Navy has now confirmed to The War Zone that the armament package for the first “flight” of its new class of frigates, announced last Friday by Secretary of the Navy John Phelan, which will be based off of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) and built by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, will not feature a built-in Vertical Launch System (VLS), but instead armaments similar to the Freedom and Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS).
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