🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 Roughly 300 U.S. soldiers will join approximately 6,000 troops from 12 nations participating in an annual multinational training exercise in Ukraine later this month.

Rapid Trident 21 will take place from Sept. 20 through Oct. 1 and will prepare personnel from allied and partner nations for crisis response, according to a news release from U.S. Army Europe and Africa command.

The exercise is the final phase of a longer annual training exercise, which seeks to better prepare Ukrainian land forces for real-world defense challenges.

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🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸 USNS Brunswick (T-EPF-6) Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport docked in Okinawa, Japan - September 16, 2021

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🇺🇸 The U.S. State Department has approved a potential deal covering up to $ 500 million in military support services for Saudi Arabia, and sent the deal to Congress for review, the Pentagon said Thursday.

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SYRIA – The anti-terrorist forces of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have arrested 20 people following an operation to combat acts of sabotage in the town of Tabqa in the region of Raqqa.

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⚡SYRIA – Kurdish Manbij Military Council forces targeting a position of Turkish troops and proxies in the village of Al-Yashli, with an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)

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🇹🇼 Taiwan plans to significantly increase military spending in the next five years, according to a draft bill that calls for new outlays on weapons systems that would better equip the island to repel an attack by China.

The proposal, unveiled by Taiwan’s cabinet on Thursday, calls for the allocation of the equivalent of about $8.7 billion over the next five years to fund the acquisition of homegrown precision missiles, high-performance naval ships and weapons systems for existing warships.

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🇰🇵 ☢ NORTH KOREA – New satellite images reveal the expanding of a key facility capable of enriching uranium for nuclear weapons.

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Australia, at the suggestion of the United States and Great Britain, in the coming years will join the club of countries that have nuclear submarines in service.

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🇹🇼⚡ Taiwan Army M110 self-propelled howitzers open fire during the annual Han Kuang military exercises Sept. 16 in the southern county of Pingtung.

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CHINA – PLA Navy KJ-200 Night Training Flights

The command of the Northern Fleet of the PLA Navy conducted night training flights of AWACS KJ-200 aircraft.

The aircraft was created on the basis of the airframe of the Y-8 turboprop transport aircraft (Chinese clone of the An-12).

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Introducing The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), the Sixth-generation fighter system for nations in the European Union:
It is being built by Airbus, with Germany, France and Spain the chief countries investing in the program. It'll have both manned as well as unmanned elements.

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IRAN – This Iman Khomeini Airport’s Hangar (35°24'17"N 51°10'44"E) serves as storage for Iranian weapons, including missiles, rockets, and other ammunition, the special hangar is located close to civil aircraft.

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Between September 27 and October 9, the Japanese Air Force plans to complete 45 rotation cycles of its aviation contingent performing missions in Djibouti under the plan to combat piracy.

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