🇸🇰 SLOVENIA – The 2-503rd US Parachute Infantry Regiment "The Rock" is training in Cerklje, as part of Exercise Rock Klescman 21.

With the Slovenian Armed Forces focused on the rapid deployment and assembly of forces and team cohesion with weapon systems tactics and procedures.

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🇱🇹 LITHUANIA – ⚔ German Army (Bundeswehr) members of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup provided a team for the Lithuanian Army’s Best Infantry Squad Competition.

A total of 18 teams from eight nations competed in 14 elements over a 50-kilometre march during the 36-hour endurance exercise.

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CHINA – PLA Navy's HSU-001 LDUUV Large Displacement Unmanned Underwater Vehicle 

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RUSSIAN ⚔ ZAPAD-2021 EXERCISES – UPDATE + VIDEO

Video of paratroopers from the VDV's 76th Air Assault Division establishing security in their AOR at the Obuz-Lesnovsky training area in Belarus. Note the use of sensors to detect a sabotage group and respond with a Tigr-M + Arbalet-DM.

👀 Rare look at members of the Russian Ewok brigade preparing to counter AT-ST on Endor with Igla-S MANPADS.

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🇪🇪 ESTONIA – 📸 Challenger 2 tanks and other equipment with the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), British Army arrived by Ro-Ro cargo ship "Eddystone" at the Port of Paldiski as part o new British rotation in support of NATO's eFP Battle Group, Sept. 9, 2021.

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BREAKING – Cote d'Ivoire: A Mi-24 helicopter of the Ivorian Air Force crashed. 5 people died.

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