🇮🇳 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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⚔ NATO Reconnaissance Mission in the Light of the upcoming Sea Breeze Exercise 2021 in the Black Sea region, hosted by Ukraine and US

Yesterday's reconnaissance of the USAF E-3 Sentry early warning aircraft over Bulgaria.

(red color represents the radius of detection of aircraft by this aircraft)

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – Another IED went off under a pickup truck of pro Turkish militants in the city of Afrin (formerly held by Kurdish forces, located in the North of the Country, not far from the Turkish border)

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BREAKING – The speaker of Iran’s parliament says Tehran will never hand over images from inside of some Iranian nuclear sites to the UN nuclear watchdog as a monitoring agreement with the agency had expired, Iranian state media reports.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – Dead and wounded in Al Bab this morning after an IED went off in a vehicle belonging to one of the Turkish-backed TFSA factions in the city.

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🔄 UPDATE – 🇸🇾 Syria: Pickup is totally destroyed. A child nearby was also reportedly wounded by shrapnel after a IED attack in Al Bab this morning.

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CHINA – Launch of the DF-17 missile with its hypersonic glider, pictured at a Chinese Rocket Force base

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CHINA – Unit 5 of the Hongyanhe nuclear power plant in China's Liaoning province - a 1080 MWe domestically-designed ACPR1000 pressurised water reactor - has yesterday been connected to the electricity grid, the China Nuclear Energy Association announced.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – At least 3 dead, including a child, following the explosion of an IED attack in downtown Afrin north of Aleppo this morning.

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🇻🇪 Venezuela unveiled a new drone in its arsenal ... which turned out to be the Foxtech Rex 340 commercial UAV.

It can be freely purchased on AliExpress for $ 35,000.

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⚓🇺🇸 US Navy P8 Poseidon AE6878 patrolling off the coast of Crimea this morning

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