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NEW – NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to take office on October 1 - alliance

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βœˆοΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ B-52 bombers are back over Europe. After arriving over southern Sweden - a new favorite operating area for B-52s - planes went south for operations over central Poland. Now heading back out over Baltic.

β—β˜’οΈ Both bombers (60-0044 and 60-0055) are nuclear-capable (but not carrying nukes now).


πŸ”— Hans Kristensen
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⚠️ NEW – Russian nuclear capable strategic bombers Tu-160 "White Swan" flow recently over neutral waters of the Barents and Norwegian Seas

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BREAKING πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§βš”οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ The UK Foreign Secretary has announced an aid package to Ukraine worth over $780 million

They will provide Ukraine with hundreds of air defense missiles, tens of thousands of extra artillery shells, and more armored vehicles, which will be delivered by the end of the year.


πŸ”— KyivPost
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BREAKING – Taiwan: 29 PLA aircraft, 8 PLAN vessels and 1 official ships operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 20 of the aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern, central and southwestern ADIZ

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⚠️🚨 BREAKING – Ukraine has shot down a Russian Su-30SM fighter jet over the Black Sea - VisegrΓ‘d 24

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BREAKING – Russia: The Russian Aerospace Forces received a batch of new Su-57 and Su-35S fighters.

The number of 5th-generation fighters entering service increases annually. Rostec reported that the next batches of aircraft are already in production.


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Norwegian Armed Forces: "Together with our allies, we continue to closely monitor the Russian exercise outside of Norway"

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Strategic aviation aircraft Tu-22M3 and Tu-160M of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out flights in neutral airspace over the waters of the Barents, Norwegian, Okhotsk, Baltic Seas, and the Pacific Ocean.

The flights took place as part of the large-scale Russian Navy exercises "Ocean-2024". Su-35S and Su-30SM fighters provided escorts.


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Russian Okean Exercises in the Baltic: Footage of yesterday's Backfire sortie. According to the accompanying statement, this was a anti-ship mission against an "enemy" surface group and the bombers were escorted by Su-30s.

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BREAKING – North Korea publicly discloses uranium enrichment facility for 1st time - Yonahp

The communist leader visited the Nuclear Weapons Institute and the "production base of weapon-grade nuclear materials," according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). The dispatch did not release the location of the facility or date of the visit.


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βš‘πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ Analysis: China moves to play 'Okinawa card' over Japan's Taiwan stance: ”China had now set its sights on Okinawa prefecture in its Japan strategy and is about to take a first-ever dangerous step."

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BREAKING – The US has imposed sanctions on five Chinese companies that supply products to Pakistan's ballistic missile program.

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CHINA – Yesterday, CCTV Military released the second episode of the "Quenching" documentary "Training Elite Soldiers for War". 

The film shows that the Type 726 air-cushion landing craft of the Sixth Naval Landing Ship Detachment of the Southern Theater Command (Unit 92692) is loaded with Type 15 tanks of a Marine Corps brigade and conducts a landing drill on the beach of Moon Bay, Yangxi County, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province.


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⚑NEW – Two German warships have entered the Taiwan Strait on a freedom of navigation exercise, the first such transit in over two decades.

πŸ”— Taiwan Plus News
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