🇦🇪🤝🇸🇩 — The UAE is reorganizing its arms supply network to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces by developing new logistical routes for shipments to go through neighboring countries such as Ethiopia and the Central African Republic, Le Monde reports.

➡️ Flights tied to Emirati-linked networks are continuously flying into the region, often operating in ways that avoid detection.

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🇨🇳 Meet Atlas: China's drone swarm turns one soldier into an airborne armada

👉 China has publicly showcased the work of its state-of-the-art drone swarm system "Atlas" for the first time. What’s known about the weapon?

🧑🏻‍💻 Mass drone control by single operator

The Atlas’ most jaw-dropping feature is that a single command vehicle – the Swarm-2 - can coordinate up to 96 drones at once, effectively turning one operator into the controller of an entire airborne formation.

🔥 High-density launch capability

The Swarm-2 can carry and deploy 48 fixed-wing drones, launching one UAV every 3 seconds. This ensures safe spacing, stable flight paths, and rapid buildup of swarm mass in the air without collisions.

🤖 AI-powered swarm intelligence

Each drone is equipped with algorithm-driven “smart brain” capabilities — enabling communication, data sharing, and autonomous positional adjustments. The swarm behaves as a coordinated system rather than individual units.

🧩 Expanded battlefield applications

📍 The Atlas system supports multiple modern combat roles, including:

🔶 saturation attacks to overwhelm enemy air defenses from multiple directions

🔶 precision strikes with loitering capability and higher accuracy than traditional munitions

🔶 deep-strike missions using low-altitude, low-signature penetration over long distances

⚡️Rapid swarm formation

Dozens of high-speed drones can form dense, coordinated formations within seconds. They can also automatically adapt to airflow disturbances and avoid mid-air collisions — critical for operating at scale.

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🇺🇸 The USA is deploying nuclear microreactors at key air bases

The US Air Force has identified air bases Buckley (Colorado, USA) and Malmstrom (Montana, USA) as priority sites for deploying nuclear microreactors as part of the ANPI (Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations) program.

The program is being implemented jointly with the Defense Innovation Unit (Mountain View, California, USA) and involves the deployment of commercial microreactors, which will be built, operated, and maintained by private contractors.

The choice of bases is due to their infrastructure, availability of space, and critical role in the defense system. Buckley provides space and reconnaissance operations, while Malmstrom is one of the key bases for intercontinental ballistic missiles.

The reactors are expected to be deployed by 2030 or earlier. Their task is to ensure autonomous and sustainable energy supply to facilities, eliminating dependence on civilian power grids.

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2 Pakistan-flagged oil tankers headed to Strait of Hormuz TURN BACK — Fars News

Trump’s said US Navy beginning 'process of BLOCKADING any and all ships' trying to pass through Strait

⚔️🇮🇳 🇺🇿 Anti-terrorist exercise of India and Uzbekistan “Dustlik-7”

From April 12 to 25, the 7th series of bilateral military maneuvers “Dustlik-7” (DUSTLIK-VII) between India and Uzbekistan is being held.

The opening ceremony took place at the Gurumsarai training ground (Namangan, Uzbekistan).

The exercise is aimed at strengthening the interaction of the ground forces and air forces of the two countries in the conditions of operations in a semi-urbanized area.

The Indian contingent includes 60 soldiers of the Mahar infantry regiment battalion, as well as units of the Indian Air Force. From the Uzbek side — soldiers of the ground forces and air forces of Uzbekistan.

🔷“Dustlik” is an annual Indian-Uzbek initiative, alternating between the countries. The previous exercise was held in April 2025 in Pune (Maharashtra state, India).

The main theme of the exercises is joint actions in the conditions of conducting sub-conventional operations: territory capture, organization of a joint action center at the battalion level, population control, raids, mop-up operations, use of air assets.

Aand force notam for missile test 😂

plan to conduct missile weapon tests in the coastal waters of the Arabian Sea on April 14-15, 2026

Trump announces Israel-Lebanon 10-DAY CEASEFIRE starting 5 p.m. ET

'It has been my honor to solve 9 wars across world, and this will be my 10th'

He’s also inviting Netanyahu AND Lebanese Prez to WH for talks


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🚀🇰🇵 North Korea has launched ballistic missiles

April 19 at 00:10 MSK (06:10 local time), North Korea carried out the launch of several short-range ballistic missiles from the Sinpo area (Hamgyong Nam-do Province, North Korea) in the direction of the Sea of Japan.

According to the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Republic of Korea, the missiles traveled about 140 km and fell into the waters east of the Korean Peninsula. The Japanese side clarified that they did not enter the country's exclusive economic zone



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🚨🇵🇰 Taimoor tested: Pakistan flexes new stand-off strike weapon power

Pakistan has successfully tested its indigenously produced Taimoor air-launched cruise missile, which struck a distant naval target, the Pakistan Navy announced on X.

Key details:

🔸 Type: Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) for land and naval targets

🔸 Range: 600 km

🔸 Speed: Subsonic (860–980 km/h)

🔸 Platforms: Mirage III (tested), JF-17 Thunder (planned)

🔸 Features: Stealth design, terrain-following, sea-skimming

🔸 Developer: Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS), Pakistan

🔸 Tactical role: Stand-off capability to strike long-range targets without entering enemy air defense zones.

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⚔️🇮🇳 The multinational exercise "Pragati 2026"

In Umroi (Meghalaya state, India), the multinational exercise "Pragati 2026" is being conducted from May 18 to 31.
The aim is to exchange experience and enhance the operational compatibility of the armed forces of the participating countries.

About 400 military personnel from the armed forces of India, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam are participating.