KAZAKHSTAN – Russian "peacekeepers" are using Orlan-10 drones to monitor the surroundings of the Alma-Ata airport, RIA Novosti reports.

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SYRIA – Turkish military attacks and destroys Syrian terrorist army bases in Aleppo.

TAIWAN – The parliament passed an additional spending bill of nearly 9.59 billion euros in its latest attempt to bolster defense capabilities against an increasingly bellicose China.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 “Rather than complain about its exclusion from today’s US-Russia talks, the EU should take on something it really can handle: preparing for waves of Ukrainian refugees.”

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The #Israeli company #ElbitSystems entered into the first-ever deal with the #UAE ,which became possible after the normalization.

The #UAE will purchase a J-MUSIC MANPADS detection and countermeasures system in #Israel for $ 53 million.
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🔗 Dana Levi דנה🇮🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧 (@Danale)

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A large delegation from the Turkish defense industry arrived in Nigeria last week, including TAI, Roketsan ,BMC, Otokar Tais ,Shipyards, Aselsan and several others.

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Saudi Arabia has turned directly to its neighbors in the region for help in replenishing the stocks of its missile defense .

The Saudi Patriots could dry out in a matter of months amid the intensification of strikes from Yemen.

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Diehl Defence set a benchmark with its ground-based air defence system IRIS-T SLM. The latter system demonstrated its operational efficiency under realistic operating conditions during several successful test firings.

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A quadcopter with a mounted QBZ-95 automatic rifle used during counter-terrorism exercises of the special forces of the People's Armed Police of China.

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⚓ Bigger Than A US Navy AEGIS Cruiser: China Is Building More Type-055s

The Type-055 Renhai Class is in many ways the Chinese Navy's answer to the U.S. AEGIS cruisers. Large & heavily armed, they play a leading role escorting China's aircraft carriers.

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Syrian Army 4th division with Golan-S01's – rare.

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KAZAKHSTAN – Russian CSTO peacekeepers fly home - from Alma-Ata to Chkalovsky near Moscow

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Chinese PLA Navy's 40th Escort Task Force departing for the Gulf of Aden and Somalia waters to escort merchant ships, in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution. "

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The first Indian-built aircraft carrier Vikrant (IAC-1) on sea trials at sea. January 2021. The construction of the ship was carried out at the Indian state-owned shipbuilding company Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) under the Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) program, sea trials began on August 4, 2021.

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Russian troops are already arriving in #Belarus, says secretary of its Security Council Alexander Volfovich. A Russian train with military equipment was seen in Kolodishchi heading towards #Minsk.
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China seeks to use Gwadar port as military base: Report

China will seek to use Pakistan’s Gwadar Port, which comes under the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, as a military base.

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France delivered six Dassault Rafale fighters to the Greek Air Force, and the priests blessed the transferred aircraft.

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In 2021, the Russian MoD received 5k pieces of new or modernized equipment including:
-900 armored vehicles
-3 submarines
-4 surface ships, 10 cutters, 17 support boats;
-151 aircraft (77 planes, 29 helicopters, 45 UAVs)
-Pantsir-S, S-350, S-400
-3 Bastion systems
-4 Tu-95MS

Footage of modernized Mi-28NM attack helicopters are ready to be delivered to the Russian military.

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