China’s PLA Navy launches its 31st Type 054A - now featuring a brand new phased array fire control radar (FCR)

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇺🇦 Ukraine: There is a battle in the vicinity of the Elenovka checkpoint.

According to local media reports, Russian separatists returning fire on objects of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, from which the adjacent side was fired.

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🇨🇳The flight of the Su-35 fighter of the 6th Aviation Brigade of the PLA Air Force (the former 6th Aviation Regiment of the 2nd Aviation Division) over the city of Zhanjiang (Guangdong Province)

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🔗 The RAGEX - MILITARY🎖- War (@War\_Ragex)

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Video of Russian-made Tigr-M vehicles in service with the Zambian military. 68/
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⚓🇺🇸 U.S. Navy 7th Fleet conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) in the South China Sea today

USS Benfold (DDG 65) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the vicinity of the Paracel Islands today, consistent with international law.

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Israeli Engineer: The Iron Dome is a big lie

An Israeli engineer told Al Jazeera that the Iron Dome defense system was a "big lie" and that its first failures date back to the 2012 war against Gaza.

The spokesman also said that the Iron Dome failed to resist the missiles and these missiles reached the depths of Palestine.

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – A Afghan officer decided to switch sides and went over to the Taliban, taking his HMMWV with an SPG-9 installed.

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⚓🇬🇧 Royal Navy allegedly hunted for Russian Navy submarines in the Mediterranean

On June 27th, the UK’s Royal Navy allegedly evaded Russian submarine that were stalking the flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier.

It was just revealed that the UK Navy’s flagship was allegedly being tailed by Russian submarine, while it was sailing near Cyprus.

Upon realising that they were being followed, the Royal Navy scrambled two Merlin Mk2 helicopters to search for the submarine, the Daily Telegraph reported.

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🚨 BREAKING – Belarusian President Lukashenko arrived in St. Petersburg to meet with Putin there today, Belarus state news agency BelTA reported.

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – Airstrike of the Afghan Air Force on a Taliban group.

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JUST IN – Russia: Ships of the First rank and submarines held a rehearsal of the Main Naval Parade, which will be held on July 25 in St. Petersburg

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Turkish Armed Forces Command (TSK) took delivery of a new electronic warfare vehicle, Sancak, that was developed with local resources, the head of the top defense body said Sunday. #Turkey

🔗 Ali Özkök (@Ozkok\_A)

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This video that I’ve received today made me angry. A young man being beaten up savagely by the police in Iran just because he resisted to give his dog away. His mother is trying to help him but see what happens.
According to the laws in Iran, walking a dog in public is a crime.

🔗 Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih)

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7 #Taliban terrorists were killed and another was wounded in airstrikes conducted by #AAF at the outskirts of #Takhar provincial center, today morning.

Additionally, 1 vehicle, 1 mortar, 1 Pk machine gun and some amount of their weapons & ammunition were destroyed.

🔗 Ministry of Defense, Afghanistan (@MoDAfghanistan)

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BREAKING – France calls on all its citizens in Afghanistan to leave over security concerns: embassy

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🔄 UPDATE – Russia: Today, from 05.00 to 06.00 in the morning, the first night rehearsal of the Main Naval Parade was held in St. Petersburg in the water area of ​​the Neva.

The training was attended by about 20 warships and boats of the Russian Navy.

In the parade ranks: small missile ships, mine defense ships, missile boats, the latest anti-sabotage, landing, patrol boats of the Raptor type and anti-sabotage boats of the Grachonok type.

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CHINA – PLA Tests of missile and artillery weapons at the China Lake test site in the Mojave Desert.

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🇩🇪 GERMANY – As part of the Bundeswehr, a single command center for military space operations has been created, whose tasks will include the protection and monitoring of satellites, the observation of dangerous space debris, as well as tracking the activities of other states.

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