Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@gregm12 @AirPowerNEW1: There are not plenty of RDT&E AN/TPY-2s around the US. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/2030282328015028336#m

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

@666_mancer: Лавров: все эти лохи подписали контракты чисто добровольно по зову сердца, нацизма и колониализма, так что наши кенийские друзья могут сходить нахер (в МО РФ, я имел в виду)
t.me/youlistenedmayak/41515 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nasK4trY-7Y #всрф #понаехали #Кения https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1488187061760835586#m

The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @Osint613: German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius:

We did not start this war.

What does the world expect, what does Donald Trump expect from a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to achieve there in the Strait of Hormuz, which the powerful American Navy cannot manage alone?

It is not our war; we did not start it.

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @AirPowerNEW1: As I've noted in the replies to the quoted post, the US Army had had a small number of the 10 and 20kW class Palletized High Energy Laser (PHEL) made by Blue Halo (AeroVironment) and also known as Locust, forward deployed in CENTCOM for a number of years. This has been known since 2023. In late 2023, the US Army even confirmed that these were in the theater 'having success' but noted that videos of that were classified (video in the reply to quoted post).

Separately, the US Navy has a 60+ kW (scalable to 100kW) High Energy Laser built by Lockheed Martin (HELIOS) operationally deployed on a DDG-51 destroyer. The US Army is also getting close to receiving (if not already in possession) of a 300kW High Energy Laser produced by Leidos and Lockheed Maritn.

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

Tonight’s @usf_army strikes by FP-2 drones on two Russian Tor air defence systems and one decoy of S-300 radar.

Aftermath of the strike on a first Tor air defence system is also shown. https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/2033489096924905485#m

Necro Mancer (Twitter)

#Лабинск, Краснодарский край, 16/03/26: походу, утренние сообщения о локализации оказались несколько преждевременными (смотреть со звуком)
t.me/exilenova_plus/17568 #движуха #красивое

imi (m) (Twitter)

RT @SOF_UKR: SOF Strikes russian Airfield, Depots In Occupied Crimea, Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @fab_hinz: The Iranians were conducting a lot of research and development work on exoatmospheric guidance technologies as part of their missile and SLV programs. Would not be surprised if they were eventually aiming to develop direct-ascent anti-satellite capabilities as well. https://twitter.com/michaelh992/status/2033523701560365536#m

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇺🇸 @RTX_News continues to expand their PATRIOT supply chain in Europe, which now includes 23 companies in 7 countries:

🇵🇱 Poland
🇳🇴 Norway
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇮🇹 Italy
🇩🇪 Germany
🇬🇷 Greece
🇪🇸 Spain

This does not include Lockheed Martin's separate PAC-3 MSE supply chain.

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇺🇸 News: $100 billion defense supplemental probably going to be proposed via reconciliation. Budget request not expected this week.

The hill is of course still waiting on the FY2027 base budget request.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇩🇪🇪🇸 This project would likely be to integrate Indra's LANZA 3D Mobile/Medium Range Radar and perhaps a new command vehicle with IRIS-T SLS/SLM launchers.

LANZA 3D MRR is less capable than @hensoldt's TRML-4D though, which is the current IRIS-T SL radar. https://twitter.com/Jeff21461/status/2033540858968985767#m

Status-6 (War & Military News) (Twitter)

RT @phildstewart: Reactions to Trump's call for help to secure Strait of Hormuz

JAPAN

Japan does not currently plan to dispatch naval vessels to escort ships in the Middle East, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday.

"We have not made any decisions whatsoever about dispatching escort ships. We are continuing to examine what Japan can do independently and what can be done within the legal framework," Takaichi told parliament.

Takaichi will travel to Washington this week for talks with Trump that she said will cover the conflict with Iran.

AUSTRALIA

Australia will not send naval ships to assist in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said on Monday.

"We won't be sending a ship to the Strait of Hormuz. We know how incredibly important that is, but that's not something that we've been asked or that we're contributing to," Catherine King, a member of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's cabinet, said in an interview with state broadcaster ABC.

SOUTH KOREA

"We will communicate closely with the U.S. regarding this matter and make a decision after careful review," South Korea's presidential office said on Sunday.

Under South Korea's constitution, overseas troop deployments require parliamentary approval, and opposition figures have said any dispatch of warships to the Strait would need consent from the legislature.

BRITAIN

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday he would not be "drawn into the wider Iran war" whilst reiterating he was working with allies to reopen the Strait.

"We are working with others to come up with a credible plan for the Strait of Hormuz to ensure that we can reopen shipping and passage through the Strait. Let me be clear, that won't be and it's never been envisioned to be a NATO mission," he told reporters.

EUROPEAN UNION

EU foreign ministers will on Monday discuss bolstering a small naval mission in the Middle East but they are not expected to discuss expanding its role to include the choked-off Strait, diplomats and officials say.

The EU's Aspides mission - named after the Greek word for "shields" - was established in 2024 to protect ships from attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebel group in the Red Sea.

GERMANY

Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Monday that Germany would not participate with its military in securing the Strait.

"What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot do? This is not our war, we have not started it," Pistorius said.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in an interview with Germany's ARD television on Sunday that he was "very sceptical" that extending Aspides ​to ​the ⁠Strait of Hormuz would provide ​greater security.

DENMARK

Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday ahead of the EU ministers' meeting that it would be wise to keep an open mind to this question "as the small country that we are, but a large maritime nation".

Even if Europe did not support the U.S.-Israeli decision to go to war, "we must face the world as it is, not as we want it to be", he told journalists.

ITALY

Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday that diplomacy was the right way to solve the crisis in the Strait, adding there were no naval missions Italy was involved in that could be extended to the area.

GREECE

A government spokesperson said on Monday that Greece would not engage in military operations in the Strait of Hormuz.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@StijnOerde @hensoldt: If its a good radar, by all means. In this case, their existing offerings are inferior, so unless they are unveiling something new...