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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🚨 BREAKING – For the first time since the 1980s a U.S. nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) visited South Korea on Tuesday, as the allies launched talks to coordinate their responses in the event of a nuclear war with North Korea - Reuters

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Elbit Systems announced today that it was awarded a $150 million contract to supply PULS™ (Precise and Universal Launching Systems) rocket launchers and a package of precision-guided long-range rockets to an international customer. The contract will be performed over a period of three years.

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Ukrainian tankers undergoing training on American Abrams tanks in Germany can be ready for battle in just a few weeks - newspaper of the US Department of Defense

Video is reportedly from Germany.

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Iran's will provide Bolivia with advanced defence tech - Iranian Minister of Defence

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Elbit Systems has introduced a unmanned reconnaissance and strike system Lanius, which allows you to scan the premises and destroy targets in them.

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Indian Navy's indigenously designed and constructed frontline warships INS Sahyadri and INS Kolkata mission deployed in South Eastern IOR visit Jakarta, Indonesia.

🔗 Indian Navy Spokesperson

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The international coalition has prepared 17 brigade combat groups for the Ukrainian counteroffensive — more than 63,000 troops, — the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States, General Mark Milley

🔗 U.S. Department of Defense

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