🔄 UPDATE – 🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy littoral combat ship USS Tulsa (LCS-16) joined Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group during presence operations in South China Sea.

This marks the first time a LCS has operated as part of a carrier strike group in 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

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🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier in the South China Sea today.

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Interesting video of 🇬🇧⚓ Royal Navy HMS Queen Elizabeth, 🇺🇸⚓ U.S. Navy USS America & USS Carl Vinson sailing together in the pacific.

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🇮🇳✈️ The Indian Cabinet approves procurement of 56 Airbus C-295MW transport aircraft for the Indian Air Force to replace its old Avro transports.

40 among the 56 are to be made in India.

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The Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan hasn't been so lively for a long time.

The visit of CSG21 gave Japanese, American, British, and Dutch naval ships only this opportunity to appear in the same frame. 🇯🇵🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱

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RUSSIA – Su-25SM planes and Mi-8 helicopters fired air-to-surface missiles at imaginary enemy targets during Exercise Rubezh-2021 at the Edelweiss training ground.

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UPDATE – 🇹🇼⚡ 6th day in a row that China has sent aircraft into Taiwan’s ADIZ…

4 Chinese military planes enter Taiwan’s ADIZ

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Russia and Belarus formally opened vast joint military drills on Thursday, a week-long exercise across the territory of both countries and in the Baltic Sea that has alarmed some NATO countries.

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RUSSIA – Servicemen from the Baltic Fleet's 336th Naval Infantry Brigade conducted a counter-amphibious landing exercise in Kaliningrad.

Note: Kaliningrad is located close to the borders of NATO members Poland and Lithuania.

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BELARUS – As part of the joint Air Force and Air Defense Forces training center, Russia also transferred part of an S-300PM2 system (looks like two TELs) to Belarus a week and a half ago.

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🔄 UPDATE – Video from the opening ceremony of large scale exercises Zapad-2021 in Russia.

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South Korean Army firing Israeli Spike NLOS ATGM with a range of 25kms.

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CHINA – Servicemen of one of the reconnaissance units of the ground forces of the Eastern Command of the PLA have practiced combat in an urban setting.

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