🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- 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.

🇺🇸 -

🇺🇸⚡️- For now Biden will remain President despite dropping out from the race, he has not officially endorsed Kamala Harris yet.

🇺🇸⚡️- Biden officially endorses Kamala Harris to be the democratic nominee for President

🇺🇸⚡️- White House aides say they learned Biden was dropping out on Twitter

🇺🇸⚡️- Former President Obama issued a letter of congratulation to Biden for his historic decision, but has not endorsed presumptive challenger Kamala Harris for president.

🇺🇸⚡️- Kamala Harris confirms she will be running for president as a Democrat this year.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bill and Hillary Clinton have endorsed Kamala Harris’ 2024 presidential bid.

🇸🇩⚡- Abdel Rahman Al-Bishi, Commander of the Rapid Support Forces in the Sennar Province, has been confirmed to have died in battle.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Air Force is on high alert due to information indicating the Houthis may possibly attack Israel tonight – several Israeli media.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- Satellites captured Houthis preparing dozens of drones and ballistic missiles that will be launched from different areas of Yemen tonight – Israeli media.

🇺🇲🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- US intelligence warned Israel of an imminent Yemeni attack – Israeli media reports.

🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Navy has been placed on maximum alert too – '8200' Israeli right-wing media.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tennessee Democrats are the first to formally dedicate their delegates to Kamala Harris

🇯🇴🇮🇱⚡️- A 3.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Israel and Jordan, its epicenter in the Dead Sea.

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr: "JD Vance represents the interests of the CIA"

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media reports that "all sectors of the military" have raised their state of alert in anticipation for Ansurallah's retaliatory attack