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Syria is now intercepting IRGC weapons routes to Hezbollah.

On 16 July, Syria announced the seizure of a weapons shipment hidden inside an Iraqi oil tanker at the al-Tanf border crossing.

The cargo reportedly included:

โ€ข long-range missiles
โ€ข anti-tank guided missiles
โ€ข drones
โ€ข including fiber-optic FPVs, Almas-3 ATGMs and Paveh cruise-missile components

One day later, on 17 July, Iran claimed an IRGC strike near al-Tanf.

Officially, Tehran said it was targeting a โ€œUS command centre.โ€
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Another US service member was killed on Saturday while carrying out a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone in Iraq
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Canada is buying more LAV 6 ACSV vehicles and sending more to Ukraine.

Ottawa ordered 190 new LAV 6.0-based ACSV vehicles, worth $1.4bn, expanding the fleet from 360 to 550.

At the Ankara NATO summit, Canada also pledged:

โ€ข 35 more ACSV for Ukraine
โ€ข including 10 ambulances and 25 recovery vehicles
โ€ข โ‚ฌ46.8m for the Czech ammunition initiative

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Canada has already sent 89 ACSV to Ukraine for total of 124, all in by end of 2026.
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๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada is buying more LAV 6 ACSV vehicles and sending more to Ukraine. Ottawa ordered 190 new LAV 6.0-based ACSV vehicles, worth $1.4bn, expanding the fleet from 360 to 550. At the Ankara NATO summit, Canada also pledged: โ€ข 35 more ACSV for Ukraineโ€ฆ
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Czechia also "joined" PURL symbolically.

At the Ankara NATO summit, Prague agreed to contribute 140m CZK / roughly $6.5m to PURL โ€” the mechanism where allies buy US-made weapons for Ukraine.

Itโ€™s a small amount, but politically notable.

Babiลก had been elected partly on promised no Czech aid to Ukraine, with no clear coalition agreement and strong SPD opposition.
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I recently found out that 4 submarines vanished in 1968 within about 6 months.

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ INS Dakar โ€” disappeared in January
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Minerve โ€” disappeared two days later
๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ K-129 โ€” sank in March
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ USS Scorpion โ€” lost in May

Total: 318 sailors dead.

Four submarines from four different countries, with unknown causes, mostly in and around Mediterranean.
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Ukrainian SF killing 1 & capturing 6 orcs in one raid.
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Russians say Ukraine began to armour critical components of its drones.

Here is "armour" plate struck by SAM.
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Lamine Yamal for the past 68 minutes
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Burnhamโ€™s Britain may restore foreign aid to 0.7% of national income.

UK aid spending was provisionally ยฃ13.0bn in 2025, or 0.43% of GNI.

Restoring it to 0.7% would mean roughly ยฃ21bn.

So the increase is about:

+ยฃ8bn a year.

For context, UK bilateral ODA to Ukraine was only ยฃ270m in 2024 โ€” about 2% of total UK aid spending.

The rest goes into the usual aid-world mix:

โ€ข refugee and asylum costs
โ€ข humanitarian aid
โ€ข development projects
โ€ข multilateral bodies
โ€ข climate and nature finance

The funny comparison:

ยฃ8bn is roughly enough to buy around 90โ€“100 F-35B airframes at flyaway price.
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A Polish MiG-21UM may return to the sky.

FUBAR Aviation says it has acquired MiG-21UM โ€œ9311โ€, a former Polish Air Force two-seat trainer.

The goal is clear: restore it to flying condition and eventually bring it to airshows.

Poland retired the MiG-21 over 20 years ago.
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Russia started using Yak-52 trainer as carrier for up to 4 interceptor drones by the special flight unit "Bars-Sarmat".
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