🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡- MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighters prevented two American B-52 bombers from violating the Russian Federation airspaces – Russian Ministry of Defense.

🇫🇷🇦🇿⚡- "It is our duty to help these nations liberate themselves from this revolting remnant from the past. We will support you until you are free. The Comoros islands, Mayotte are still under French colonial rule." – Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan, threatening to interfere in more French overseas territories after New Caledonia.

🇸🇦🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "We have no connection and did not participate in the Israeli attack on the port of Hodeidah, in Houthi Yemen. The Kingdom will not allow any entity to use its airspace." – Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israel claims they've now received confirmation, Muhammad Daf, leader of Hamas military wing, was killed in the airstrike a couple of days ago.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Kiryat Shmona direction.)

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Initial reports of an explosion in Haifa

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- BREAKING: Russian forces have crossed the Seversky-Donetsk-Donbass Canal, Chasov-Yar (Bakhmut direction) – both sides have confirmed.

The exact location is unknown to both sides, but Ukraine confirms there was a major breach overnight. The crossing could have happened in western Kalinovka or just slightly north of Chasov-Yar itself.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Residents of Haifa have confirmed a "strong explosion" towards the coast. It is not known if the explosion is a security-related incident.

🇧🇩⚡- Tarique Rahman, Senior Vice-Chairman of the opposition 'Bangladesh Nationalist Party', has openly called for the US and the UK to interfere in the country's ongoing violent protests, demanding regime change.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Dalton direction.)

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Al Jazeera, quoting a spokesman for Ansurallah, says that the Houthis are planning a "long battle, a war without limits or rules of engagement." It is believed the Houthis will launch a retaliatory strike against Israel at any moment after the bombing of Hudaydah port.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli sources reporting this as a "false alarm."

🇬🇪🇺🇦⚡- The Georgian State Security Service has begun summoning Georgian mercenaries, who returned from Ukraine for questioning.

The interrogations are being conducted as part of a criminal case about an "attempted coup".

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in northern Israel (Nahariyya direction.)

This series of alarms was preceded by unrecognized aircraft, likely drone infiltration from Hezbollah.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Impacts have been confirmed at an IDF base in Hanita, northern Israel.

Fires have broken out surrounding the base.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Fires in Hanita as a result of Hezbollah strikes.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Rockets also impacted just outside Nahariyya, northern Israel.

🛰 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 US prepares jamming devices targeting Russia, China satellites

🔶️ The US is about to deploy a new ground-based jammer designed to blunt Chinese or Russian satellites from transmitting information about US forces during a conflict, the Space Force disclosed.

🔶️ The Pentagon’s space service branch tested the system for the first time earlier this year at two different locations, with control of the system at a third. The devices aren’t meant to protect US satellites from Chinese or Russian jamming but “to responsibly counter adversary satellite communications capabilities that enable attacks,” the Space Force said in a statement to Bloomberg News.

🔶️ The Pentagon strives - on the rare occasions when it discusses such space capabilities - to distinguish its emerging satellite-jamming technology as purely defensive and narrowly focused. That’s as opposed to a nuclear weapon the US says Russia is developing that could create high-altitude electromagnetic pulses that would take out satellites and disrupt entire communications networks.

🔶️ The first 11 of 24 Remote Modular Terminal jammers will be deployed in several months, and all of them could be in place by Dec. 31 at undisclosed locations, according to the Space Force statement. The terminals “are small, transportable and low-cost satellite communications jammers that can be deployed in austere environments to protect” US forces, the Space Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office said in a posting online.

🔶️ The new terminals augment a much larger jamming weapon called the Counter Communications System that’s already deployed and a mid-sized one called Meadowlands “by providing the ability to have a proliferated, remotely controlled and relatively relocatable capability,” the Space Force said. The Meadowlands system has encountered technical challenges that have delayed its delivery until at least October, about two years later than planned.

🔶️ China has “hundreds and hundreds of satellites on orbit designed to find, fix, track, target and yes, potentially engage, US and allied forces across the Indo-Pacific,” General Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command, said Wednesday at the annual Aspen Security Forum. “So we’ve got to understand that and know what it means for our forces.”

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-07-19/us-jamming-devices-russia-china-satellites-14536629.html

🇺🇸 - Biden drops out.

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