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GASWEX is a combined, multilateral surface, air and sub-surface exercise

Participants include French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle with FS Provence, FS Chevalier Paul, FS Var, The Belgian Navy frigate Leopold I, Japanese destroyer JS Ariake, USS Makin Island and USS Port Royal.

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BREAKING – The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission announced that its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) came under fire near the settlement of Veselaya Gora, controlled by the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, near the contact line in Donbas.

In turn, Yakov Osadchiy, an official representative of the People's Militia of the self-proclaimed LPR, said that the Ukrainian side had placed an armored personnel carrier in a residential area of ​​the Kiev-controlled city of "Happiness" so that OSCE monitors would not find it, and then fired at the mission's drone.

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BREAKING – Israel Aerospace Industries say they completed a series of tests with the BARAK ER long range surface-to-air missile, reaching an interception distance of 150km.

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BREAKING – Saudi Arabia Rolls Out Initiative to End Yemen War, in coordination with US & UN

Saudi says it has “Direct Channel” with Houthis & another via Oman

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BREAKING – Bulgaria removes two Russian diplomats over suspected spying charges

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This week starts in vertical take-off like this #F35B on board ITS Cavour.
The Italian Navy aircraft carrier continues sea trials, as part of the #ReadyForOperations campaign, to obtain the certification for the use of 5th generation aircraft
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🇺🇸 US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets from The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN69) Carrier Strike Group’s Carrier Air Wing 3 and Turkish KC-135s conduct a mid-air fueling over the Black Sea amid tensions with Russia in the region.

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🚨 Airborne forces and special forces: the active phase of the exercises of Russia and Belarus started near Mogilev in the eastern part of Belarus.

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RUSSIA – Crews of MiG-31BM fighters of the Western Military District currently preparing for exercises in the Astrakhan region.

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RUSSIA – Servicemen of the Republic of Belarus arrived in the Nizhny Novgorod region to participate in a joint exercise with servicemen of the Western Military District.

As part of the exercise, the servicemen will jointly work out actions in the defense of tank and motorized rifle units with the support of cannon and rocket artillery. During the defense, T-72B3 tanks and BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles will conduct live fire at targets at a distance of 800 to 2000 meters. Having destroyed the main forces of the enemy, the subdivisions of Russia and Belarus will go over to the counteroffensive, conducting rapid fire from all guns.

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IRAN – New Satellite images from Iranian shipyards in Bushehr and Bender Abbas found new catamarans about 65 meters long in the building.

There are suggestions that this is a new type of missile corvettes being built for the Iranian IRGC.

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Russian Navy: Which Submarines Will Be Delivered This Year?

The Russian Navy will receive three new nuclear-powered submarines by the end of the year Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov told the Krasnaya Zvezda daily: One Borei-A-class SSBN (project 955A) and two Yasen-M-class SSGN (project 885M). In addition it will soon commission three more conventional submarines: One improved Kilo-class SSK (project 636.3) and two Lada-class SSK (project 677).

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The active phase of the joint Russian-Belarusian exercise in Mogilev with paratroopers from the VDV's 234th Air Assault Regiment and Belarus' 103rd Guards Airborne Brigade has begun. 32/
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🇺🇸 Three USAF B-52 strategic bombers are headed west out of Barksdale AFB this morning.

Could be a possible deployment/rotation.

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BOLIVIA – A K8 plane of the Bolivian Air Force (FAB), fell on Wednesday on a house in the city of Sacaba, in the department of Cochabamba (center), leaving at least one dead and one wounded.

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