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🇺🇸 USA – Raytheon and the US Marine Corps have successfully tested the new NMESIS coastal missile system, which combines the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) anti-ship missile with a remote-controlled Oshkosh Defense launcher. @DefenseBlog
🇺🇸 US Navy: Here Is Our First Look At The USMC’s NMESIS: NSM Being Launched From An Unmanned JLTV

NMESIS combines the NSM anti-ship missile with a Remotely Operated Ground Unit for Expeditionary (ROGUE) Fires vehicle, produced by Oshkosh Defense

NSM is a multi-mission cruise missile designed to destroy heavily defended maritime and land targets; it is the U.S. Navy’s over-the-horizon weapon system for littoral combat ships and future frigate

“Our Naval Strike Missile is a vital weapon for denying enemies the use of key maritime terrain. This test further demonstrates our partnership for advancing the Marine Corps’ modernization priorities of enabling sea control and denial operations.”

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A 🇪🇦 Navy @Armada_esp AV-8B Harrier descends onto the flight deck of the 🇪🇦 aircraft carrier ESPS #JUANCARLOSI as an MV-22B Osprey of the 🇺🇸 @USMC VMM-266 #FightingGriffingsSquadron prepares to takeoff at sea.

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🇺🇸 U.S. Navy: The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and an embarked detachment from Maritime Helicopter Squadron 6 have conducted operations in the Indian & Pacific Oceans and the Indian Sea.

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🇹🇷🇮🇶 The People's Defense Forces, the armed wing of the PKK, published footage of a Kurdish attack on Turkish Armed Forces positions in Avasin in northern Iraq on 04/26/2021

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A brigade sized land-air-sea force with all components, ships and aircraft. Looks like EU wants a USMC type Marine Expeditionary Force with a larger air combat elements. Interesting concept and that too under EU banner and not NATO.

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CHINA – The 8th Start of PLA Military Earth Observation Satellite constellation YG-30 will be launched on May 7 at around 2:07 am local time.

The 🚀 launch will take place at the Xichang Space Center, using a CZ-2C rocket.

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CHINA – Finally there is confirmation that the PLAAF's 1st Air Brigade based at Anshan, Northern Theater Command is getting J-20As.

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S. Korea to kick off biennial integrated defense drill next week

The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Friday it will kick off a biennial rear area training next week together with the government, police and firefighters to maintain an integrated defense posture.

The Hwarang training will begin Monday in the southeastern city of Daegu and its surrounding North Gyeongsang Province and run until November in five different regions, according to the military.

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US supports ASEAN in South China Sea issues, seek to collaborate for regional peace

US has reaffirmed its support for ASEAN principles in the South China Sea issues, welcoming the bloc’s role in promoting cooperation, dialogue & confidence building.

Attending the ASEAN-U.S. Dialogue was Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung, heads of the ASEAN Senior Officials' Meeting and the U.S.'s principal deputy assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Atul Keshap.

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 OUT OF CONTROL! Chinese rocket could fall to Earth on SATURDAY

21-TON 🚀 spacecraft could shower debris over densely populated areas including New York - but its exact entry point 'can't be pinpointed until within hours of its reentry.'

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