CHINA – PLA airborne troops conduct parachuting training recently.

The Y-20 plane they took is China's first indigenously-developed heavy military transport aircraft.

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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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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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BREAKING – ⚓🇺🇸 US Navy Ohio Class SSBN arriving in Gibraltar this afternoon for Mediterranean Sea mission.

Likely the submarine is awaiting the Iranian 77th Naval Group which will take part in naval exercises off the coast of Israel along with Russia, later this month.

The Ohio class is a class of nuclear-powered submarines

The Navy has 18 Ohio-class  ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) and guided missile submarines (SSGN).

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