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🇬🇷 GREECE – Servicemen of the DYK special forces of the Hellenic Navy and servicemen of the 72nd Special Operations Brigade of Serbia during the ORION-2021 exercises in Avlona (Attica), East in Athens

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🇺🇸 U.S. Navy: The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) departed the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for a strategic deterrent patrol, June 25.

The Naval  Base Kitsap (NBK)  Bangor is located on the Kitsap  Peninsula in Kitsap County, Washington. 

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🇾🇪 YEMEN – Signs of a new crisis loom between the Hadi government, backed by Saudi Arabia and the Southern Transition Council (STC), backed by the United Arab Emirates, in the southern province of Shabwa.

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🇹🇼 TAIWAN – A Chinese PLA Air Force Y-8 ASW aircraft entered southwest Taiwan's ADIZ on the morning of June 26, 2021.

ROCAF has deployed patrol aircraft & air defense missile systems to monitor activity.

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🇵🇰 🇮🇳 Five Pakistan paramilitary soldiers killed in attack on security forces in Balochistan

Heavy losses were inflicted on terrorists during the incident in the Sangan area of District Sibi in Balochistan, Dawn newspaper reported.

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🇦🇪🇮🇹 The United Arab Emirates is demanding the withdrawal of Italian troops from the Dubai airbase by the end of June.

Relations between the two countries soured after the imposition of a ban on arms supplies to the Emirates by Rome.

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🇺🇸-🇸🇳 Enhancing Navy Partnerships

🇺🇸 U.S. Navy USS Hershel “Woody” Williams arrived in Dakar, Senegal, for a scheduled port visit and to meet with U.S. leadership and Senegalese officers & dignitaries aboard the ship.

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NEW – 🇺🇸 US Navy Ohio-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine coming into San Diego - June 26, 2021

Note: The submarine is not verified with name - so it's high likely that it's not the USS Maine.

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#NavyReadiness ⚓️ 🛫 🌊

Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group (RRNCSG), the #USNavy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier strike group, conducts routine operations as part of its 2021 deployment. #FreeAndOpenIndoPacific

📹: MC2 Samantha Jetzer

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🇬🇧 UK – The RAF Puma detachment that has been serving in Afghanistan has returned to the Helicopter base in Oxfordshire as part of the withdrawal of NATO forces from the country.

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🇺🇸 USAF Boeing E-8C JSTARS late hour reconnaissance mission over Lithuania.

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🇮🇳 INDIA – Defence Minister Rajnath Singh begins a 3-day visit to Ladakh region in the western Himalayas, where China has a border dispute on the LAC (Line of Actual Control)

This just as China has been seen to harden its positions in the depth areas of the standoff zone

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🇮🇳 INDIA – Timelapse of 11 years of construction of the Indian Navy's aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at the Cochin shipyard in satellite images.

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