⚡️🇮🇳 — In Mumbai, a Hindutva mob brought a pig to protest against cow and goat slaughter for Eid ul-Adha. The pig was snatched by police and pulled by the crowd, causing the poor animal clear pain and distress. They then started shouting "Jai Shree Ram."

Sick sick society.

#India #IndianMuslims

@ThePakistanNews

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MQ-25A Stingray received Milestone C approval to move into Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP).

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So why is this important?

One possible Pacific mission perfectly showcases the advantages of MQ-25A:

A U.S. carrier strike group wants to strike a long-range radar and anti-ship missile site located roughly 1,550 km away, while keeping the carrier itself far back from Chinese anti-ship missile threat zones.

Four F/A-18E/F Super Hornets launch carrying strike weapons and two drop tanks each. Around 926 km from the carrier, two MQ-25s rendezvous with the strike package. Each MQ-25 can offload roughly 6.8 tonnes of fuel at that distance, giving each Hornet around 3.4 tonnes of additional fuel.

The same mission without MQ-25 would require 4–5 F/A-18s acting as buddy tankers, which at this distance can offload only around 3 tonnes of fuel each.

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In this case replacing 4-5 Super Hornets with just 2 MQ-25s saves 2-3 places for additional fighters.

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The Navy hopes MQ-25 will cut Super Hornet flight hours by roughly 20–30%. That matters because buddy tanking is especially punishing: heavy fuel loads, external tanks, drag, and repeated carrier cycles burn through airframe life and maintenance capacity faster than many normal combat sorties.

🇺🇸🇴🇲⚡️- President Trump threatens to attack Oman if they don’t behave.

Genuine schizophrenia at this point

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Mi-26 "installing" Pansir-SMD on Moscow high-rise building

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Russian Su-30SM in a HAD.

Knowledge re-learned in blood.

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Lithuania’s State Defence Council approved buying 936 Finnish Patria 6×6 armoured vehicles.

The first 300 are expected by 2030. Lithuania also wants part of the production/workshare to happen domestically.

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Singapore ordered 4 P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft and 8 MK 54 MOD 0 Lightweight Torpedo for an estimated cost of $2.316 billion.

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Hezbollah probably hit its first real Iron Dome launcher after 2 destroyed decoys. Or Israelis made better decoys.

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Chechnyan Ministry of Interior signs contract for 11 Airbus H145 helicopters

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UK is not the only one with naval shipbuilding problems.

The Dutch and Belgian navies’ ASWF frigates have not even started construction yet. They are supposed to replace the Karel Doorman-class frigates, some now over 35 years old and originally planned for retirement around 2020.

With only 4 ships ordered (2 per navy), the first delivery was initially expected in 2029. It has now slipped to 2033 at the earliest.

Four years to build a frigate is already long, but €1 billion per ship is especially difficult to justify when the hulls are to be built in Romania.

Damen was also supposed to lead construction of Germany’s F-126 frigates, but similar design delays and program issues reportedly pushed Berlin toward transferring leadership to Rheinmetall, which is now said to be seeking around €12 billion to rescue the project.