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JAPAN – From August 4th to 10th, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force conducted a joint training with Italian Air Force fighters and others at Komatsu Air Base.

🔗 JASDF PAO

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Forgotten War's:

🔹Yemen
🔹Sudan
🔹Lybia
🔹Eritrea
🔹Mali/Niger
🔹Syria/Iraq
🔹Somalia
🔹Congo
🔹Myanmar

Admin will do more focus on the events there.

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NIGER – 5 national guard soldiers were killed and four others injured on Wednesday during a terrorist attack in Bourkou-Bourkou, in the Tillabéry region, announced by the high command of the National Guard

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YEMEN – The commander of the security belt forces, Abdul Latif Al-Sayed, was killed in an explosion targeting his vehicle in Abyan Governorate, in southern Yemen.

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LYBIA – The Turkish-backed GNA 52nd Infantry Brigade begins securing the, Az Zawiya Oil Refining Company.

Note: The country is devided in two sides of interest: Tripoli (western Lybia is under control of pro-Western GNA forces. Benghazi (eastern Lybia) is under control of pro-Russian forces.

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URGENT – President of the ECOWAS Group: We will work to find a solution to the crisis in Niger to ensure the security of the entire continent

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RUSSIA – 2 Tu-160 strategic long-range missile carriers of the Russian Air Force completed a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean, lasting about 8 hours.

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Military spending, 2022.

🇨🇳 China: $291 billion
🇮🇳 India: $66 billion
🇷🇺 Russia: $61 billion
🇬🇧 UK: $55 billion
🇫🇷 France: $51 billion
🇯🇵 Japan: $48 billion
🇩🇪 Germany: $46 billion
🇮🇹 Italy: $33 billion
🇧🇷 Brazil: $20 billion

Total: $671 billion

🇺🇸 United States: $877 billion

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Navies of China and Russia conducts joint patrol in the Sea of Japan and Northern Pacific, off of the coast of Alaska.

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IRAQ – 9 dead including 5 Turkish soldiers and 4 PKK fighters during the fighting between the Turkish army and the PKK in the Northern part of the country.

📝 The Turkish army is intensifying its operations in the area.

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SYRIA – The SDF, with an aircraft of the US-led International Coalition, carried out a security operation in the village of Al-Muwaileh, north of Deir Ezzor, against a smuggler, linked to the ISIS, which leads to the death of the criminal.

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POLAND – The Polish Navy fired up a RBS-15 Mk3 missile from a Orkan class ship.

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Refurbished Venezuelan army AMX-VCI being tested, the vehicles are being given to GNB units.

🔗 CNW

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LEBANON – Amidst chaos and uncertainty, Hezbollah fighters showcase unparalleled street combat tactics, reminiscent of elite military training.

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Poland is planning to acquire a network of tethered surveillance aerostats from the US to bolster its air defense capabilities. A map produced by the Polish Ministry of National Defense was uploaded yesterday that shows proposed locations and sensor ranges for the network.

Tethered aerostats such as those produced by Lockheed have been used extensively by the United States in the Middle East, and are currently deployed across Eastern Syria to detect hostile rockets, drones, missiles, and ground-based threats.

The request for the project seemingly called "ASRR Barbara" by the Polish military include multi-sensor layered coverage of the Eastern & Northern Polish borders and would be capable of detecting and identifying threats such as the recent helicopter incursion from Belarus.

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CHAD – Heavy deployment of the army reported in the capital of N'djamena.

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