The tropical wave ~35W in the east Atlantic is interesting. Notice how the wave axis is tilted from SW-NE into the trade winds. Upshear-tilted waves like this are more efficient at converting background kinetic energy into eddies & are more likely to undergo…

🇺🇸 United States Air Force | 412TW | Teledyne RQ-4A Global Hawk 04-2021 FORTE10 #UAV #RQ4A #GlobalHawk #USAF #Crimea #Blacksea

Tomorrow at the Pentagon there’ll be “a joint, full-scale emergency response exercise, Agile Warrior.” @DeptofDefense says it “is not based on any current specific or credible threat.” (h/t @jseldin)

Topol' road-mobile ICBM succesfuly launched from Kapustin Yar to Sary-Shagan. No details on unit, "training warhead hit the provisional target with required precision". https://t.co/f6Lz22ttQS "on maintenance", so only media outlets: https://t.co/OYAIOH8Bt0

#Hama : Regime helicopters barrel bombed #Zakat while #Russian warplanes attacked civilian vehicles near the village.

1 \ I reported tonight on @newsisrael13 that the Israeli ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer went on a secret trip to Alaska last week. Israeli officials told me this wasn't a usual diplomatic trip in one of the states in the U.S. but much more important…

@newsisrael13 2 \ Israeli officials told me Dermer's visit to Alaska had to do with an issue which is at the core of the U.S.-Israel security and strategic relationship and mainly with the cooperation against the threat from Iran

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1 \ I reported tonight on @newsisrael13 that the Israeli ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer went on a secret trip to Alaska last week. Israeli officials told me this wasn't a usual diplomatic trip in one of the states in the U.S. but much more important…

@newsisrael13 2 \ Israeli officials told me Dermer's visit to Alaska had to do with an issue which is at the core of the U.S.-Israel security and strategic relationship and mainly with the cooperation against the threat from Iran

@newsisrael13 3 \ At this time I can't report on all the details I know about Dermer's trip to Alaska due to a gag order by the military censor in Israel. But more details will be released in the next 48 hours

@newsisrael13 4 \ Israel and the U.S. have a robust security relationship and vast cooperation on issues ranging fron intelligence sharing to missile defense. The event Dermer traveled to Alsake for is another testament for the upgrade in the U.S.-Israel…

@IntelDoge @TheWorldWatch @IntelCrab It was likely for a missile test of the Israeli Arrow 3 ABM system at the spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska. https://t.co/xoHSMhdr6b

Looking like the Israelis tested the Arrow 3 long-range missile air defence system in Alaska last week https://t.co/JEfAmihwZl

@newsisrael13 4 \ Israel and the U.S. have a robust security relationship and vast cooperation on issues ranging fron intelligence sharing to missile defense. The event Dermer traveled to Alsake for is another testament for the upgrade in the U.S.-Israel…

@DaveSchmerler @ArmsControlWonk @mhanham However, to be clear . . If a new North Korean missile looks like a Russian Iskander and flies like a Russia Iskander It doesn't mean it is a Russia Iskander!

@IntelDoge @TheWorldWatch @IntelCrab It was likely for a missile test of the Israeli Arrow 3 ABM system at the spaceport in Kodiak, Alaska. https://t.co/xoHSMhdr6b

Looking like the Israelis tested the Arrow 3 long-range missile air defence system in Alaska last week https://t.co/JEfAmihwZl

Scientists stunned by asteroid that just missed Earth. “It’s probably the largest asteroid to pass this close to Earth in quite a number of years.” https://t.co/HUY02XH8Ri

Russian warplanes violate Finnish airspace #Russia #Finland https://t.co/xxQXeUv6NR

Kim warns South Korea: 'No more weapons development, military drills' https://t.co/j3QtjCeRIN