CHINA – Watch some of the PLA's most powerful weapons and equipment carry out exercises in the first half of 2023.

-Stealth fighter jets
-Amphibious assault ships
-Main battle tanks and more

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

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US Navy Takes Delivery of First Flight III Burke-class Destroyer

Jack H. Lucas (DDG-125) is the first ship that will field Raytheon’s new AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar, as well as an updated Aegis Combat System.

Flight III destroyers will assume the air defense mission in carrier strike groups once the Ticonderoga-class cruisers are phased out of the fleet.

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🌐 INTEL – Hezbollah nearly doubled air defense systems in past 5 years in bid to limit Israeli Air Force, Maariv Online reports; Russian-made and Iranian anti-aircraft batteries deployed in Lebanon, report says.

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OCCUPIED UKRAINE – On the flanks of Bakhmut, the Ukrainian military is pressing the enemy and knocking them out of previously captured positions. They are successful and established. Heavy fighting continues-General Staff

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NOW – USAF RQ4 Global Hawk FORTE10 Black Sea Mission.

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CHINA – For the first time, flight tests of the upgraded fifth-generation J-20 fighter with national-made WS-15 engines were carried out.

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UKRAINE – It is reported that the occupiers struck the Antonivskyi bridge with an "Iskander" ballistic missile. By using the Iskander, the occupiers indirectly confirm the problems on the left bank of the Dnieper and that they are unable to eliminate the armed forces' bridgehead by more regular methods.

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Bad news for Russian defenders and all the defeatists and pessimists criticizing the Counteroffensive. UAF are just getting started.

Ukraine’s CV90 Fighting Vehicles Have Guns Like Chainsaws. And They Just Reached the Woods Of Eastern...

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A Russian Murom-P observation complex was destroyed by an FPV drone in the Donetsk region.

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An unidentified drone, on Thursday night, hit targets for Russia’s Wagner mercenaries inside Kharobah airbase in eastern Libya, 150 km southeast of Benghazi.

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UKRAINE – Counter-offensive June 30, 2023:

✙ TAURICA FRONT ✙

➤ Operational situation in the Tokmak direction at 16:00.

➨ Fierce fighting continues in the direction of the villages of Rabotino and Verbovoye in several directions. The enemy, PMC "Tsarskie Volki" and Bars-3, periodically counterattacks. The AFU are partially successful on two fronts.

🔗 Getty🇺🇦🇦🇲🇹🇼 (@region776)

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BREAKING – Poland plans to place American nuclear weapons on its territory, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and This is a response to the placement of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus.

📝 Poland wants to participate in the NATO program on the joint use of nuclear weapons.

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BREAKING – Russian Duma: Wagner fighters will not be sent to Ukraine if they do not sign a contract with the Ministry of Defense

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BREAKING – Russian servicemen and troops are gradually leaving the Zaporizhzhia NPP, reports

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BELARUS – A field camp for ~8000 people was built near Asipovichy, where the PMC Wagner could be stationed.

BBC World published fresh satellite images of the territory of the former military unit No. 61732 in Tsel village (Asipovichy district, Mahiliou region, South of Minsk) dated June 30, 2023.

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JUST IN – The Ukrainian counterattack did not meet expectations, but we will continue to support Kyiv - The White House

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NEW – China determined to annex Taiwan regardless of Jan. 2024 election results

Former military chief says Taiwan is a key to CCP's goal of 'national rejuvenation'.

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