UKRAINE CELEBRATES 500 DAYS OF WAR WITH STRIKES ON RUSSIAN STRATEGIC REAR FACILITIES

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Lockheed Martin Takes Next Step Toward PAC-3 MSE Integration With Aegis Weapon System

For the first time, Lockheed Martin’s Patriot Advanced Capability – 3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor successfully communicated with the AN/SPY-1 Radar, a key component in the Aegis Weapon System.

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Myanmar violence and South China Sea disputes to dominate ASEAN talks

Myanmar’s prolonged civil strife, tensions in the disputed South China Sea and concern over arms buildups in the region are expected to dominate the ASEAN summit this week in Indonesia.

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Indian Army regiment armed with 155mm x 45 caliber dhanush artillery along Ashok and Layland 6x6 FATs at Ladakh disputed border with China.

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Germany will supply Ukraine with two Patriot air defense systems launchers, 25 Leopard tanks, 40 Marder BMPs, 20,000 artillery shells and other weapons worth 600 million euros.

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Aid to Ukraine after 500 days wince Russia's invasion

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BREAKING – NATO put 300,000 soldiers on standby - Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

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SOUTH CHINA SEA – Show of force: China has staged an unusually large number of maritime militia (24) in the Mischief Reef/Second Thomas (Ayungin) Shoal area, at the same time as the Philippines has reported swarms of PRC militia/fishing ships at nearby Sabina Shoal and Iroquois Reef.

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🚨 BREAKING – Germany will not hand over long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine - the German Defense Minister

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CUBA – RuNavy Smolnyy-class training ship Perekop arrived at the port of Havana, July 11, 2023.

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JUST IN – US give 40 new F-16s to Turkey, to modernize nearly 80 aircraft; Canada agreed to lift the arms embargo against Turkey.

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TAIWAN – The Ministry of National Defense (MND) tracked 38 Chinese military aircraft and nine naval vessels around Taiwan between 6 a.m. on Tuesday (July 11) and 6 a.m. on Wednesday (July 12).

Of the 38 People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft, 32 were tracked in Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ), according to the MND. One BZK-005 reconnaissance drone crossed the Taiwan Strait median line, while six Sukhoi Su-30 combat jets either crossed the median line or entered the southwest corner of the ADIZ.

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The number of Russian warships escorted through the UK's Exclusive Economic Zone by the Royal Navy:

66 in 2021
41 in 2022

During the same period, the Royal Navy also located and tracked "several" Russian submarines.

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Yesterday, JASDF’s fighters scrambled to cope with a suspected intrusion into Japan’s airspace over the East China Sea, the Pacific Ocean.

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In the first such transfer between the 2 nations, India had announced the gifting of an Indian Navy corvette to Vietnam in June.

This will be the 1st time that a fully operational corvette has been gifted by India to any country.

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TAIWAN – An anonymous spokesperson from the U.S. State Department refuted claims that the U.S. asked Taiwan to secretly develop bioweapons, after a report was published in local media citing secret government discussions in 2022.

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PLA soldiers collapsing on the high-altitude regions

Reportedly China is forced to deploy robots and hiring unemployed locals from occupied Tibet to deploy on borders region as PLA soldiers unable to endure the unbearable high-altitude harsh conditions.

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Australia will provide a new aid package to Ukraine, which will also include 30 Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles.

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Almost 5,200 Ukrainian military personnel have already received training in France, said the French Minister of Defense.

1,600 were also trained in Poland. By the end of the year, there will be almost 7 thousand of them.

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China sends almost 80 warplanes, navy ships towards Taiwan in past two days in forceful display

The Chinese People's Liberation Army sent 38 warplanes and 9 navy vessels around Taiwan, between 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m. Wednesday. From Wednesday morning until noon time, the military flew another 30 planes, among which included J-10 and J-16 fighters.

Of these, 32 crossed the midline of the Taiwan Strait, an unofficial boundary that had been considered a buffer between the island and mainland. Later on Wednesday, another 23 planes crossed the midline.

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