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STRATUS LO will be integrated into Type 26 frigates starting 2028. -UK MoD

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LO is high-subsonic, stealthy, anti-ship and land attack cruise missile. Range is 1000km. (Essentially a Storm Shadow upgrade)

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The RS version will be 3.5 mach maneuvering anti-ship, land-attack and anti-radiation missile with range of around 500km.

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Both are to be launched from aircraft and ships. LO is mainly British and RS is mainly French with Italy recently joining in.
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Austria ordered 12 M-346FA trainer jets for โ‚ฌ1.5 billion.

Now its looking at replacing its 15 trench 1 Eurofighters with 36:
Rafales
Eurofighters
F-35As
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Germany doubled (G-95) HK-416 procurement to 250,000.
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Belgium is ready to approve transfer of โ‚ฌ140 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine if there are guarantees and shared risk from all EU/ countries that hold frozen assets that are to be provided.

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Ursula von der Leyen is prepared to meet these conditions but Belgium awaiting official support from all of EU.

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Belgium holds โ‚ฌ194 billion with no other country holding over โ‚ฌ50 billion.
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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Belgium is ready to approve transfer of โ‚ฌ140 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine if there are guarantees and shared risk from all EU/ countries that hold frozen assets that are to be provided. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Ursula von der Leyen is prepared to meet theseโ€ฆ
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Other scheme proposed is using those assets as collateral for โ‚ฌ90 billion loan to Ukraine. To this there aren't many objections.

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Ukraine needs roughly โ‚ฌ130 billion in 2026 and 2027 in external money to keep up.
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Canada joined the EU's SAFE low interest defense loans.

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Admission fee is to be calculated but it will be in the millions not billions Canadian MoD.
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Bundeswehr to grow 2-3x in 10 years by 2035.

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The Bundeswehr to grow from 180k active + 49k reservists (231k) to 260k active + 200k reservists (460k).

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Also AFVs to grow from 1k to 3k.

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Bundeswehr lacks the logical tail now such as recovery tanks, heavy transporters, fuel-containers and other support infrastructure.
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Russian logistics mule getting FPVed.

Animal cruelty...
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Australia is considering donating 22 of its Tiger helicopters to Ukraine.

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Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Italy is pulling out of PURL initiative to fund us weapons for Ukraine.

Italy was very reluctant to join it and didn't even say how much they will pay. It's likely they run out of money.
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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ’ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Belgium is ready to approve transfer of โ‚ฌ140 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine if there are guarantees and shared risk from all EU/ countries that hold frozen assets that are to be provided. ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Ursula von der Leyen is prepared to meet theseโ€ฆ
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Belgian Prime Minister stated, commenting on the EU initiative to transfer Russian assets to Ukraine.

Nobody touch my money im making billions off to the state budget. Even when humans die because of it.
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Ad for BTS-4's in the Smolensk Region was discovered.
Add was placed in July 2022 and will run til 2027.

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Price is 11.000 euro for each.
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Pokrovsk/Myrnohrad map.
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Since 2022, foreign donors have bought military and defence materiel worth $12,6 billion from Czech Defense Industry for Ukraine.
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Ukrainian troops have fully cleared Yubileiny district of Kupyansk.
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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑโšก๏ธ- Netanyahu:

You say we committed war crimesโ€”I committed war crimes. Whatever.

But no army has done more than Israel to keep civilians out of harmโ€™s way.

I think Churchill would have been accused of stupendous war crimes.

We don't carpet-bomb. We don't do Dresden. We don't do any of that.
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The Central Bank of Iraq announced that the classification of the Houthis and Hezbollah as terrorist organizations was due to a technical error, and that the order to freeze terrorist assets was meant to apply only to the organizations "Al-Qaeda" and "ISIS".

According to the bank's statement published by the official Iraqi news agency ("WA"I), the official order will be corrected so that the Houthis and Hezbollah will be removed from it.
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