🇺🇸 - Six E-3Gs are currently stationed in Europe:

- 4 at Ramstein Air Base, Germany;
- 2 at RAF Mildenhall, the UK.

🇺🇸 - B-52 movement was detected earlier this morning in the Indo-Pacific arena, which was picked up on 11384 KHz (Tokyo).

There are currently 4 B-52s deployed at Guam. Unconfirmed whether an additional bomber arrived, or a current one redeployed elsewhere.

🇺🇸⚡- An incredible 26 aerial refuelers are moving towards Europe and the Middle East, departing from across mainland US.

Enough to refuel hundreds of jets.

Note, the tankers do not seem to be dragging jets.

🇺🇸 - Correction: Two B-52s were detected on Tokyo's radio station – not one.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces killed an Israeli recon soldier within the Yellow Line by accident, mistaking the soldier's identity.

The incident occurred in the Southern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇸⚡- The second batch of six F-22s are on their way to Europe, departing from mainland US moments ago.

🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳 - Map showing the movement of Russian crude tankers.

The majority of Russian tankers are seen heading to China, which is an entirely different picture from just a few months ago, when the majority of Russian crude would arrive in India on large discounts, notably at the Jamnagar refinery.

Under US pressure, India has almost halved Russian imports from 2 million barrels per day, mb/d, to just 1.1 mb/d, with the target of further reduction to 800 thousands barrels per day.

Despite the massive discounts on Russian crude, India has submitted to the US pressure, and in return, China is using the rerouted cheap Russian oil to fill the gaps of the lost Venezuelan crude.

Map by Kpler.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- The six F-22s that were meant for UK's RAF Lakenheath are returning back to Langley AFB.

There was a problem with the second tanker that was supposed to drag them across the Atlantic.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "US President Donald Trump is close to ordering a major war against Iran.

Such a war could come sooner - and be much bigger - than most in the US realize," - Barak Ravid of Israeli Channel 12.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- One of two E-3s has already departed from RAF Mildenhall towards the Middle East arena.

The stopover in the UK was unusually very short.

Footage credit: Armchair Admiral, showing the take off of DENALI02.

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) to enter the Mediterranean waters in the next couple of hours.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump seems poised to kill the Netflix-Warner Bros deal and side with Paramount in a new bidding war. Expanding Larry Ellison's new media empire.

🇮🇷🇱🇧⚡️- Hezbollah is expected to join the war, the Iranian foreign minister sent a message during his visit to Lebanon last month confirming that Hezbollah would not remain on the sidelines in the event of a new war. - Ynet

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel raises the level of alertness of its military for both offensive and defensive operations, CNN reports.

🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli security cabinet meeting scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed for Sunday.

🇮🇷⚡- Iran has issued a NOTAM for missile launches for the 19th of February.

The NOTAM restricts airspace along a corridor in eastern Iran, from central Iran to the Strait of Hormuz.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "US forces weren’t deployed to the Middle East to just to sit on bases for long weeks," - A US source tells i24 (Israeli Channel 15).

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- "I have been telling Prime Minister Keir Starmer, of the United Kingdom, that Leases are no good when it comes to Countries, and that he is making a big mistake by entering a 100 Year Lease with whoever it is that is “claiming” Right, Title, and Interest to Diego Garcia, strategically located in the Indian Ocean.

Our relationship with the United Kingdom is a strong and powerful one, and it has been for many years, but Prime Minister Starmer is losing control of this important Island by claims of entities never known of before.

In our opinion, they are fictitious in nature. Should Iran decide not to make a Deal, it may be necessary for the United States to use Diego Garcia, and the Airfield located in Fairford, in order to eradicate a potential attack by a highly unstable and dangerous Regime — An attack that would potentially be made on the United Kingdom, as well as other friendly Countries.

Prime Minister Starmer should not lose control, for any reason, of Diego Garcia, by entering a tenuous, at best, 100 Year Lease. This land should not be taken away from the U.K. and, if it is allowed to be, it will be a blight on our Great Ally. We will always be ready, willing, and able to fight for the U.K., but they have to remain strong in the face of Wokeism, and other problems put before them.

DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA!" - President Donald Trump.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli emergency services, including the Magen David Adom, have been instructed to prepare for war.

🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- A drone strike targeted a vehicle belonging to the deputy council of the Komala Party, a Kurdish opposition party and rival to the IRGC, in Iran’s Kurdistan region. The deputy council member, Omar Ilkhanizadeh, was not in the car at the time of the strike, but two Peshmerga guards were killed.

Initial reports indicate that the drone originated from the IRGC.