Philippines closely monitors threat of invasion of Taiwan, defence chief says - Reuters

The threat of China invading Taiwan is something U.S. military ally the Philippines is monitoring on a daily basis as part of Manila's contingency plans for possible conflict in the region, its defence chief said on Thursday.

"We really have to make an assessment whether such is likely or not," Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro told reporters.

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US Army soldiers and troops from Bosnia and Herzegovina travel to an exercise via an UH-60 Black Hawk during Golden Anvil 23 exercise.

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Members of the U.S. Air Force Japan's JASDF pose for a group photo at Yakumo Airfield as part of Exercise Mobility Guardian 23.

Mobility Guardian 23 is a multilateral exercise involving seven countries: Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.

(Photo by TSgt. Alexander Cook)

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U.S. nuclear submarine visit to South Korea tantamount to meeting condition for North Korea nuclear nuke use: Pyongyang's defense chief - Yonhap

North Korea's defense chief warned Thursday a U.S. nuclear-capable strategic submarine's port visit to South Korea this week may fall under the legal conditions for his country's use of nuclear weapons.

Defense Minister Kang Sun-nam made the remarks, issuing an anticipated criticism of the visit here by the USS Kentucky, an 18,750-ton Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), and the recent inaugural meeting of the Nuclear Consultative Group (NCG) between South Korea and the United States.

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Watch as Rheinmetall’s Lynx IFV armoured fighting vehicle is engaging targets downrange with pin-point accuracy in an undisclosed location.

Demonstrating its delay-free killer-killer capability, both 30mm Mk30-2 machine cannon and Main Sensor Slaved Armament (MSSA) with a .50 heavy machine gun are providing effect simultaneously on independent targets.

🔗 Rheinmetall

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SYRIA – Deir Ezzor: A convoy of the US-led international Coalition heading towards the US military base in the Koniko oil field, north of Deir ez-Zor to the brigades of the Military Council of the Kurdish SDF forces in the city of Al-Busira and Al-Kasra.

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B-52H strategic bomber takeoff 🛫 from the Yokota Air Base, Japan on July 12, 2023

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NEW MAP 🗺️ showing possible air defense coverage of advanced systems that Ukraine is expected to receive:

17x NASAMS 🔵
8x IRIS-T 🟢
5x HAWK 🔴
2x Patriot and 1x SAMP/T 🟠

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South Korea has announced the successful development of the Hyunmoo-V ballistic missile to be fitted on the country’s future arsenal ship.

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The Leopard 2A4 tank lit up as part of the Czech army. According to reports, the Czech army was supposed to receive an unnamed number of these vehicles to replace the T-72 transferred to Ukraine starting in December last year.

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BREAKING – Deliveries of F-16s to Ukraine could begin before year-end, but unlikely to change course of conflict - White House

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The rumored 6th gen jet.

🔗 Aviation

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Time to reveal this stuff!
Symbol & Paint on F-22A Raptor
with some details you might not know.

🔗 DollyPlusHQ

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SYRIA – The Syrian army conducted yesterday massive military exercises with participation of both, the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Air Force in in the Wadi al-Ahmar area for one day, east of the city of Palmyra - the exercises extended to the Al-Talila Reserve.

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The US Marines conducted a test launch of the NMESIS (Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System) anti-ship missile from a ground launcher.

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TAIWAN – 26 Chinese PLA aircraft and 7 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today.

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