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🇮🇳 Indian Army orders 100 swarm drones in $15 million contract award to Indian startup

The Indian Army has just awarded Bengaluru-based startup Newspace Research & Technologies a $15 million contract to supply 100 swarm drone units. The contract was awarded under emergency procurement rules active since the India-China standoff in Ladakh began last year, forcing a slew of fast-track procurement initiatives.

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Russia and Japan have signed 1 agreement to create an analogue of the American Hubble Telescope, said Novosti Mikhail Sachkov, deputy director of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The observatory will be launched on the Angara de Vostochny after 2025.

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JUST IN – Iraq: 🇺🇸 US Army De Havilland Canada RO-6A KDIAK76/16-00276 Airborne Reconnaissance Low platform active north of 🇮🇶 Baghdad.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – In few minutes, Russian warplanes already carried out a dozen airstrikes on Jebal Zawiyah (South Idlib), striking areas of Kansafra & Al-Bara.

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🔄 IRAN – A three-coordinate radar Alborz was presented. It is stated that it has a range of up to 450 km and can simultaneously track up to 300 objects.

Judging by its appearance, it looks like this is a further development of the previously known Arash radar.

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NEW – China is a "main partner" of the Taliban in the international community, Taliban spokesman Zabihula Mujahid declared.

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🇾🇪 YEMEN – Video by Ansar Allah showing a Houti offensive against a Saudi-led coalition position near Jabal Qais, in the Jizan region. @DefenseBlog 🔰
🇾🇪 YEMEN – Iranian-backed Houthi militants are now only three kilometers from Ma'rib

The Yemeni fighters are stationed around Ma'rib with a large number of military vehicles and will soon reach the first military base of the resigned government at the entrance of the city.

They are not more than three kilometers from this headquarters.

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BREAKING – The 🇺🇸 US Navy now says they’ve declared the 5 missing crew members deceased and are switching to a recovery effort after an MH-60S helicopter crashed off the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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🇵🇭Mystery Flying Wing Aircraft Photographef Over The Philippines

The aircraft resembles the one seen in an image taken in California a year ago that is thought to be of the elusive RQ-180 stealth spy aircraft. 

Philippines sits between the South China Sea and the Philippine Sea, two contentious and highly surveilled bodies of water that regularly see large amounts of military activity, especially Chinese and American. All types of military aircraft constantly frequent the skies above both seas, from bombers to drones, but on September 2nd, at around 6:15 AM local time, landscape photographer Michael Fugnit captured something very unique in his lens—what appears to be a stealthy flying wing aircraft with a diamond-shaped fuselage and slender wings, a centralized exhaust, potentially featuring twin engines, and a ventral fuselage bulge. 

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🇺🇸 U.S. Navy: Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) arrived today in Tallinn, Estonia for a scheduled port visit.

THIS IS RARE!

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Upcoming Russian large scale military exercise Zapad-2021:

Military contingents from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, India, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Serbia and Sri Lanka have been invited to participate in the ZAPAD-2021 exercises, which will be held in Russia.

In addition, the armed forces of China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan and Uzbekistan will be represented by military observers.

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⚠️ FACT – In 2019 alone, China fired more ballistic missiles 🚀 than the rest of the world combined.

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