🚨BREAKING – ⚡⚡ Iraq: Warning sirens sounded inside the Al-Tawheed base of the US Embassy in the Green Zone of Baghdad without knowing the reasons and details.

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.@PentagonPresSec: Defender 21, the exercise in Europe continues as scheduled. Over the weekend, the @USArmy @2dCavalryRegt road march began. During the four day march, the unit will travel through Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

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"All The Way!"

On May 8, 2021, 🇺🇸 @82ndABNDiv & 🇬🇧 16th Air Assault Brigade #Paratroopers conducted Joint Forcible Entry operations into 🇪🇪 #Estonia for #SwiftResponse 21!

#DefenderEurope | #Ready2Fight

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BREAKING – ⚓Russian Navy Vishnya-class auxiliary general intelligence ship Kareliya (SSV-535) has spent the last several days lingering off the coast of the western coast of Hawaii, just outside U.S. territorial waters.

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RUSSIA – Sukhoi is reportedly developing a 5th-generation single-engine fighter with a take-off weight of less than 18 tons that will use the same Izdelie 30 engine as the Su-57.

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Video of the Admiral Grigorovich Project 11356 frigate employing its Shtil air defense system during an exercise in the Black Sea. The exercise also involve Bal and Utes coastal defense systems.
https://tvzvezda.ru/news/2021526151-cGezb.html

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Kalashnikov says that they fired 22 modernized Vikhr-1 ATGM from Ka-52 helicopters. The missile can hit targets between 800 meters-10km, can be launched from an altitude of 10 meters-4km, and can penetrate 750mm of armor after penetrating reactive armor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvo1CVTRACg&t=44s

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SpaceX put 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Wednesday evening. As usual, a Falcon 9 rocket served as the transport vehicle. It took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. SpaceX has thus set another milestone in American space travel: a hundred successful launches of the same missile type in a row.

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Chinese PLA’s Western Xinjiang Military District and the role in a conflict with India

https://ww3info.wordpress.com/2021/05/28/chinese-plas-western-xinjiang-military-district-and-the-role-in-a-conflict-with-india/

Charge d'Affaires of Ukraine summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note of protest due to the "ongoing provocative actions at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv."

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Russian Minister of Defense Shoigu and his Armenian counterpart Vagharshak Harutyunyan met in Moscow. The issues of bilateral cooperation, as well as cooperation within the CSTO were discussed, according to Interfax-AVN.

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Armenia's PM Pashinyan stated that Azerbaijan and 'some forces inside Armenia' want to provoke a war.

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Interesting RuAF Ilyushin Il-78M aerial tanker from Moscow Zhukovsky airborne over the Black Sea.

Reg. RF-94272

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Azerbaijani soldiers parade in liberated Shusha town with Ottoman military music. #Karabakh

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Another video of today's flight of Tu-22M3 bombers and Su-35S fighters over the Eastern Mediterranean Sea from Khmeimim. 586/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqqqrQrNEos

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⚔🇺🇦 Ukraine is conducting field tests of the new 2S22 Bogdana 155mm truck-mounted artillery, according to Armyinform.

The news agency has announced that the Kramatorsk Heavy Duty Machine Tool Building Plant (KZTS) and Ukrainian military are beginning testing of new 155mm artillery system.“

Today, on May 27, as part of the corresponding development work, the fire part of these tests took place. They are aimed at checking the design solutions and requirements of technical tasks implemented in this prototype of the weapon,” said in a report.

The 2S22 Bogdana is a new wheeled self-propelled howitzer (SPH) armed with a 155mm gun.

The new self-propelled artillery system, mounted on a Kraz truck chassis, was intended to destroy command posts, armoured and mechanised units, artillery batteries, communication posts and field fortifications.

The new mobile howitzer is fitted with a modern fire control system consists of a ballistic computer, a gun system computer. The display of the main fire control computer is located in the armored cab, however, there is also a gun display unit at the rear. It is used by the crew when the howitzer is deployed in firing position.

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Video of a Mi-26 helicopter transporting a Su-27 fighter in Leningrad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSm8DjwUAV8

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