Golden torpedo? Close, but nope. Submarine USS MONTPELIER SSN765 at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece 22 June loading a Mark 67 Submarine-Laid Mobile Mine SLMM, a weapon based on the Mark 37 torpedo.

The Mk67 can travel several miles to a predetermined location, then become a bottom mine.

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CHINA – A new overhead of PLA Navy CV-17 Shandong, showing robust wear of the flight deck around the launch position blast deflectors and on the landing strip.

👀 That looks like damage.
(Picture 2 is from the past)

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China appears to have built a new variant of the Type-039A Yuan family of submarines. The chined sail is similar to the Swedish A-26 Blekinge class.

📸 New pics of the PLA Navy’s new, albeit mysterious, Type-039C SSK.

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⚔🇮🇳 Indian Army carried out Airborne Exercise to validate its Rapid Response Capability. The exercise entailed Para Drop of Paratroopers and combat heavy loads including vehicle mounted anti tank and air defence missile detachments over a target area from C-130 & AN 32 aircrafts.

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🇦🇫 AFGHANISTAN – Afghan pro-government militias broke through the Taliban defense line near the city of Imam Sahib in the Pashtun district of Faryab province. They captured several villages and the Imam Sahib market, suffering heavy losses.

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