The 🇺🇸 U.S. Department of Defense officials are outlining strategies to modernize hypersonic strike, defense and intelligence capabilities.

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US SEEKS ASIAN MISSILE NETWORK – The U.S. will bolster its conventional deterrence against China, including with a network of precision-strike missiles along the so-called first island chain.

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TURKEY – Yesterday, a armoured vehicle of Turkish ground forces carrying Turkish soldiers in Sirnak, Southeast Anatolia was overturned.

As result 11 soldiers were injured.

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SYRIA – U.S.-backed Kurdish SDF Counterterrorism units conducted coalition-supported operations targeting ISIS sleeper cell activity in areas of Euphrates, Jazeer and Deir Ezzor on March 2 and 3.

The operations resulted in arrest of 9 Daesh-linked individuals in vicinity of Tel Temir, Kobanî, Raqqa and Deir Ezzor. (File photo)

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Plot to hijack Iran Air plane flying 100 passengers from Ahwaz to Mashhad foiled, says Iran

A plot to hijack an Iran Air plane flying 100 passengers from Ahwaz to the holy city of Mashhad was foiled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of the Iranian Armed Forces, Iran said on Friday.

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🇺🇸 The prototype of Sikorsky Boeing SB-1 Defiant multirole helicopter in comparison with the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk multirole helicopter.

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Russia and Iran Sign an Intelligence Pact

Last month, Iran and Russia, a close ally of the Islamic regime, signed a pact that should assist it as it attempts to reform its counterintelligence.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has an extensive and complex intelligence apparatus. Its two most important intelligence institutions are the Ministry of Intelligence (MOI) and the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). A third key intelligence organization is the IRGC’s Intelligence Protection Organization, which operates independently of the Corps’s intelligence arm and deals in counterintelligence.

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FUTURE WARFARE – This self-driving robot tank can parachute out of a plane.

Estonia’s Type-X can still carry some heavy hardware.

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BLAST FROM THE PAST – This aircraft prototype of the USAF during WWII was able to transport tanks.

Taken from the rare Book:
Guderian - Achtung Panzer!

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The first F-35A for the Royal Danish Air Force has been given its paint scheme and markings, including the Dannebrog flag.

Unlike most other nations, the Danish F-35 feature a toned down version of the colored roundel and national flag.

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Is the Biden administration hatching plans to cut the F-35 fifth generation fighter program?

The chairman of the US Congressional Armed Services Committee, Adam Smith, said: "We must stop throwing money in the trash. Is there a way not to spend so much money on such poor performance? The cost of the F-35 is enormous."

Earlier, the chief of staff of the US Air Force and the former head of the Pentagon spoke in a similar and negative way regarding the project.

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IMPORTANT – Military exercises have started across Venezuela.

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VENEZUELA – As part of the ongoing nationwide military exercises, the army used Russian made Igla MANPADS surface-to-air weapons as part of aerial Defense training.

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Training exercises on the La Guaira-Caracas Highway including the Venezuelan army, CONAS, FAES and Milicia

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T-72s, M40 recoilless rifle, EE-11 Urutu and a truck mounted Zu-23 in action.

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🎵 Row, row, row, your combat rubber raiding craft gently off the ship… like these Marines exiting USS Ashland during a Mark VI patrol boat resupply operation in the Philippine Sea amid tensions with China in the South China Sea.

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NORWAY – A U.S. Marine participates in a live-fire range during cold-weather and mountain warfare training in Setermoen, Norway.

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