RUSSIA – Izvestia reports that tests of the Zemledeliye UMZ-K Klesh-G minelayers and an automated control system at the Mulino training area in July was considered successful. "Smart" minefields will be deployed during the Zapad 2021 exercise.

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CHINA – PLA troops training with virtual reality headsets.

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🇰🇷⚓ SOUTH KOREA – The Navy held a launching ceremony Wednesday for a new 2,800-ton frigate with improved anti-submarine capabilities.

The new warship Pohang is the sixth of the country's FFX Batch II frigates to replace the Navy's 1,500-ton frigates and 1,000-ton patrol combat corvettes, according to the military.

The ceremony was held at its manufacturer Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.'s Okpo shipyard on the southern island of Geoje, with the attendance of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Won In-choul.

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🇯🇵⚓ JAPAN – On 29 Aug, DSPE JS “Yugiri” conducted a training with 🇩🇪⚓ German Navy ship “Bavarian” while other European countries such as France and the UK demonstrated their will and action of commitment to the Indo-Pacific.

The video shows the training as part of the multinational efforts for FOIP.

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🇯🇵⚡JAPAN – Yesterday, the JASDF Northern Air Defense Force’s fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan’s airspace over the Sea of Okhotsk.

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🇯🇵⚡ JAPAN – From Sep. 3 to 5, the JASDF’s fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan’s airspace over the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea.

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Lads, just enjoy it..

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BREAKING – Kyrgyzstan: A big fire broke out in the market in the city of Kyzyl-Kiya

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🇾🇪⚡ YEMEN – Iran-backed Houthi militants (Ansar Allah) claims to have suffered several airstrikes from Saudi Arabia:

* Ma'rib
- 12 raids on Sirwah district
- 4 raids on the districts of Rahabah and Jabal Murad

* Al Jawf
- 1 raid on Al-Hazm district

* Sa'dah
- 1 raid on Kitaf Wa al Boqe'e

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⚠️ URGENT – 🇪🇪 Estonia: As early as next year, the Estonian Defense Forces are planning to enlist a record 8,300 reservists in military training, which will be the largest deployment since the country's independence.

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🇺🇦⚡ UKRAINE – Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at these moments are firing from mortars on Russian Separatist positions in Spartak and Opytnoye.

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🇪🇺 EU ambassadors extended SANCTIONS against Russia for "annexing Crimea and aggression in Ukraine's Donbas."

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