SYRIA – The Turkish army targeted a Syrian army base near Ayn Issa in north of Raqqa this morning; two Syrian soldiers wounded

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The NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense System is being tested in Lithuania

Ground air defense / missile defense systems of the German, Spanish and Lithuanian Armed Forces worked out defensive measures with fighters from Finland, France, Belgium, Great Britain and Germany. Target designation was provided by long-range radar detection and control aircraft, refueling was provided by air tankers.

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A naval flotilla belonging to China set off to join Russia’s air and naval forces in the Sea of Japan

China sent out a total of five warships as well as four ship-borne helicopters to join the Russian military. The codename for the combined operations is North/Interaction-2023.

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BREAKING – Belarus has ratified an agreement with Russia on creating and operating combat training centers for the joint training of military personnel of the armed forces. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko has signed the relevant law - BELATA

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BREAKING – Syria: The Syrian army, along with the Russian army has launched a military operation with heavy machine guns in the outskirts of Al-Wasata village, rural Aleppo

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JAPAN – Marine Day 2023 - Yesterday's Marine Day in the port of Nagoya: Sōryū-class submarine (16SS)

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KAZAKHSTAN – Turkey is about to sell 834 Arma III armored vehicles from the producer Otokar for an amount of $4.5 billion to Kazakhstan.

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🇹🇷 🇰🇿 Allegedly; Kazakhstan plans to purchase 834 Otokar ARMA Armored Combat Vehicles with a value of 4.4 billion dollars. This purchase may be the largest single item export of the Turkish defense industry.

Turkish military land platform manufacturer Otokar's ARMA Armored Combat Vehicle (ZMA) has been tested by the Kazakhstan Army for a while. Kazakh media Orda claimed that Kazakhstan plans to procure 834 ARMA Armored Combat Vehicles worth $4.4 billion.

COBRA Armored Vehicles, which were exported to Kazakhstan by Otokar a long time ago, are currently actively used by the Kazakh Army.

https://www.savunmasanayist.com/bomba-iddia-kazakistana-4-4-milyar-dolara-834-otokar-arma/

TAIWAN – 4 Chinese PLA aircraft and 6 PLA Navy vessels around Taiwan were detected at 6 a.m., July, 18, 2023

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TAIWAN – Amid highest tensions with China, the Taiwanese Hemlock Civil Defense cooperates with civil defense companies to conduct rifle application shooting courses, advancing with the firepower attack of squad formation units, and training under heavy rain

In recent times, civil defense teams and civil defense rescue units have been set up in various places in the north and south of Taiwan. In addition to learning how to use guns, they also learn tactical medical care, civil defense security, and cognitive warfare identification, etc., to prepare before the war comes.

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TAIWAN – The Ministry of National Defense plans to purchase ground-based air defense system NASAMS 2 in the 2024 national defense budget

The system would be purchased to further strengthen Taiwan's mid- and low-altitude defenses.

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SYRIA – Iran has send about 120 members from the IRGC affiliated Liwa Fatemiyoun militants to the Hawl refugee camp, in the eastern countryside of Homs, coming from the city of Al-Bukamal, DeirbEzzor region.

The purpose of the militants is that they deployed to some checkpoints in eastern Syria amid tensions with US in the region.

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SYRIA – Syrian Army's 25th Division, Special Tasks Forces conducting currently a exercises in the eastern Aleppo countryside.

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Germany has signed a new framework agreement with Rheinmetall as well as increasing the volume of an existing agreement. The new agreement calls for 1.2 billion € (~1,35 billion USD) worth of 155mm artillery shells, fuses and propellant charges. This new agreement runs until 2029.

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