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HMS Trent returns to Black Sea:

🇬🇧 Royal Navy River-class Batch 2 offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent P224 transited northbound through Istanbul strait this morning to participate in the Exercise Sea Breeze.

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Golden torpedo? Close, but nope. Submarine USS MONTPELIER SSN765 at Souda Bay, Crete, Greece 22 June loading a Mark 67 Submarine-Laid Mobile Mine SLMM, a weapon based on the Mark 37 torpedo.

The Mk67 can travel several miles to a predetermined location, then become a bottom mine.

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🇦🇿 AZERBAIJAN – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk-2021 exercises with participation of Turkish military personnel began today.

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🇷🇺The #Russia|n Ministry of Defense publishes footage of large-scale exercises in the eastern Mediterranean
The maneuvers involved
MiG-31K fighters with Dagger hypersonic missiles
Tu-22M3 long-range bombers
Su-35
Su-34 fighter-bombers Il-38 Tu-142MK anti-submarine aircraft

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CHINA – A new overhead of PLA Navy CV-17 Shandong, showing robust wear of the flight deck around the launch position blast deflectors and on the landing strip.

👀 That looks like damage.
(Picture 2 is from the past)

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China appears to have built a new variant of the Type-039A Yuan family of submarines. The chined sail is similar to the Swedish A-26 Blekinge class.

📸 New pics of the PLA Navy’s new, albeit mysterious, Type-039C SSK.

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🇸🇾 SYRIA – Initial satellite imagery of Al-Hiri south of Al-Bukamal, on the Iraq border shows two of the three impacts from the strikes conducted during the night by USAF.

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