URGENT – Portugal sends 60 soldiers to Mozambique to help the country in its fight against the Central African Province of the Islamic State in Cabo Delgado.

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It's official! Three new F-35 squadrons to be based at Florida's previously storm-ravaged Tyndall Air Force Base:

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🇺🇸 An annual human rights report released by the State Department accuses the Chinese government of “crimes against humanity” and reaffirms a decision to label China’s treatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as “genocide”

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Video of paratroopers and BMD-2K-AU vehicles from the VDV's 76th Air Assault Division's 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment parachuting from Il-76 transport aircraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRz8OsVKnVg
https://tvzvezda.ru/news/20213301715-qY8q1.html

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#Russia: The average reconnaissance ship (communications vessel) 'Ivan Hurs' of #Russian Navy (Project 18280) passed #Bosphorus Strait in the direction of #Mediterranean Sea and #Russian base in #Tartus.

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🇸🇬The #Airbus Group reported on March 29 that the #Singapore Air Force received the first Airbus Helicopters H225M Cougar medium transport helicopter. The contract for the purchase of H225M helicopters was signed by Singapore in 2016, the number of vehicles ordered from 18 to 30

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🇱🇾The commander of the Libyan National Army, Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, personally attended the exercises of the 106th armored brigade, at which the same Russian-made Tiger-M armored vehicles, previously not in service with the LNA, were spotted.
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US Black Hawk helicopters belonging to the 1st CAB1 ID from Fort Riley, Kansas, arrived last week in Lielvārde, Latvia to support Atlantic Resolve.

The operation will strengthen regional security and showcase the United States commitment to NATO allies amid tensions with Russia in the region.

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On Monday 29 March, NATO fighter jets scrambled 10 times to intercept six different groups of Russian warplanes.

NATO forces from 🇧🇪🇧🇬🇮🇹🇳🇴🇷🇴🇹🇷🇬🇧 demonstrated their readiness and capability to guard Allied skies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

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From April to the end of June, NATO will carry out one of the largest military maneuvers in decades. The dimensions are impressive. Around 30,000 soldiers from 27 countries will practice parachute and landing operations, offensives and defenses as well as rapid west-east deployments across Europe.

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Japan is worried that if an incident occurs in the Taiwan Strait, Yonaguni Island may become the target of an attack by the Chinese Communists. Since the main task of the Self-Defense Force stationed on Yonaguni Island is to collect intelligence, the Ministry of Defense of Japan plans to send additional electric warfare units to the area before the end of 2023.

Japan's "Yomiuri Shimbun" reported that the main task of the "Coastal Surveillance Team" of the Self-Defense Force stationed on Yonaguni Island is to collect information, and it seems that they cannot respond to actual combat.

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Additional info, must seen in context. News from March 29, 2021 | Chinese PLA Air Force attempted to infiltrate Japan's AIDZ in the East China Sea.

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Philippines says Chinese 'militia' swarm has spread in disputed waters

Hundreds of Chinese vessels believed to be manned by militias in the South China Sea have spread to a wider area, the Philippines said on Wednesday, defying its demand for the flotilla to be withdrawn immediately.
The Philippines has described the presence of the boats inside its 200-mile exclusive economic zone at Whitsun Reef as “swarming and threatening”, while Canada, Australia, the United States, Japan and others have voiced concern about China’s intentions, prompting rebukes by Beijing.

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Russian Navy Project 22870 rescue tug Professor Nikolay Muru northbound in the Bosphorus Strait - March 31, 2021

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⚓🇺🇸 US Navy: USS San Antonio (LPD 17) San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock leaving Norfolk, Virginia for deployment - March 31, 2021

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Microsoft lands $21 billion contract to arm US soldiers with futuristic augmented-reality headsets, that would be backed by the tech firm's Azure cloud computing services, which was compromised by hackers last year.

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Hong Kong shouldn’t get special status as Beijing has slashed freedoms; US State Department releases its annual Hong Kong Policy Act Report, that includes a determination on whether the city is autonomous enough from the mainland to justify preferential economic relations.

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