⚓🇺🇸 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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Structural damage in the Kyrgyz village of Arka caused by the recent border clashes between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

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VIDEO: Myanmar Army helicopter shot down by Kachin Independence Army near Moemouk township this morning. - @MelvinAung
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The 386th Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron Explosive Ordnance Disposal flight completed a controlled detonation at Ali Al Salem Air Base, #Kuwait … https://dvidshub.net/r/tpu8wq

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Check out the #Marines firing the powerful M134 Minigun in close air support training … https://dvidshub.net/r/vg6l6s

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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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⚠️ EXCELLENT GRAPHIC shows the possibilities of a SPACE WAR between Russia and U.S.

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🚨BREAKING - Italy: Sicily put on alert because of re-entry of Chinese rocket

Italian authorities have warned that there are “parts” of 9 central-southern regions, among them Sicily, that could be hit by the falling fragments of the Chinese space rocket Long March 5B.

🔴 LIVE – tracking & re-entry of Rocket Long March CZ-5B

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A multi-million-pound investment will deliver the most lethal tank in Europe and allow us to modernise our land forces.

Defence Secretary @BWallaceMP has confirmed a £800M contract with @RH_BAES_Land to build the @BritishArmy’s next-generation Challenger 3 battle tank.

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🇩🇰 DENMARK plans to deploy a maximum of 105 soldiers to "advise, support and accompany the Malian defense and security forces and enable them to face the threat of terrorist groups in the border area between Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. Faso, ”Danish Defense Minister Trine Bramsen said on April 8.

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BOMBSHELL – Documents obtained by the US State Department reveal China discussed weaponization of coronaviruses 5 years prior to pandemic

Top Chinese scientists gave their ideas in the document predicting a 3rd world war would be fought with biological weapons.

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⚔ NATO's flagship exercise Steadfast Defender 2021 was officially announced yesterday.

Learn about more about the exercise, - check out the graphic...

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S-300 or S-400 48N6-series anti-aircraft missiles being transported by rail.
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Before they landed in #Estonia, @82ndABNDiv #Paratroopers trained at #FortBragg in preparation for #SwiftResponse 21. More than 7K troops from 🇵🇱 6th Abn. Bde, 🇬🇧 @16AirAssltBde, & 7 other nations will conduct a series of Joint Forceable Entry ops into 🇪🇪 , 🇱🇹 , 🇷🇴 respectively.

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