Iraq is interested in buying 14 French 4.5-generation Dassault Rafale fighter jets. The deal is valued at $240 million. Iraq offers to pay them through oil supplies.

🔗 Intelsky (@Intel\_sky)

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150 AIM-120C-7/8 advanced medium-range air-to-air missiles [AMRAAMs] are the subject of a future deal between the US and Japan. Tokyo has expressed a desire to acquire these missiles to improve the combat capability of its fleet. — the US Defense and Security Cooperation Agency.

🔗 Intelsky (@Intel\_sky)

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Taiwan is preparing its citizens for war.

Nationwide drills are being conducted that inform people where to seek shelter in case China attacks.

🔗 DW News (@dwnews)

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Russian propaganda truck equipped with huge LED screen spotted in occupied Sievierodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast

It is used to show the Russian TV channels in the ruined city without electricity. Previously, a number of such trucks were spotted in Mariupol.
📹https://news.1rj.ru/str/surovyi_severodonetsk/507

🔗 Euromaidan Press (@EuromaidanPress)

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The latest version of the Stryker, the Stryker ICVVA1, is starting testing very soon. The US Army received the first armor-piercing vehicle. Stryker is an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle. The tests are due to take place at Aberdeen [ATC] in Maryland.

🔗 Intelsky (@Intel\_sky)

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An updated graphic showing the trajectories of missiles fired by the PLA near Taiwan on August 4th by Taiwan’s CNA.

🔗 Ian Burns McCaslin (@IBMcCaslin)

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#Ukraine: The catastrophic explosion of a Russian tank (reportedly a T-90) again due to internal ammo detonation.

🔗 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons)

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#Ukraine: A Russian BMP-2 was captured by the Ukrainian 110th Separate Territorial Defense Brigade after it was abandoned by Russian forces- in fully working condition.

🔗 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons)

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IDF says it struck 11 PIJ rocket launching positions in Gaza

🔗 Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian)

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#Ukraine: I obtained exclusive video which shows the first destruction of a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system in Ukraine, in a Russian precision strike.

🔗 Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura)

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We are concerned by reports of British, Swedish & Croatian nationals being charged by illegitimate authorities in eastern Ukraine. Russia and its proxies have an obligation to respect international humanitarian law, including the rights & protections afforded to prisoners of war.

🔗 Secretary Antony Blinken (@SecBlinken)

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1/3⚡️The SBU (Ukrainian Intelligence - ed.) detained a Russian agent who collected data for shelling in the south of the Odesa region.

In his "reports" he:
- provided the exact coordinates of defense objects on the map;

🔗 Flash (@Flash43191300)

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#Ukraine: A Russian helicopter, claimed to be a Ka-52, was apparently damaged by Ukrainian fire in #Donetsk Oblast this morning.

🔗 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons)

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The sounds of Russian MLRS shelling were audible in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv this afternoon.

The Governor of Kharkiv Oblast Synyehubov appealed to the residents to stay in shelters and don't ignore air raid sirens.

🔗 Status-6 (@Archer83Able)

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Amazing video of a Russian T-72 fleeing Ukrainian troops, discarding men and then crashing into a tree.

🔗 Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura)

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The Russian military decided to overwhelm Ukrainian logistics near Izyum with the burden of recovering and repairing a couple of companies’ worth of T-80 tanks. The cunning minds of the 4th Guards Kantemirov Division strike again. (1/2)

🔗 Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof)

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Russia has gifted all this gear to Ukraine only in Izyum

🔗 Mykhailo Golub (@golub)

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The first batch of the latest Su-35S multirole fighters has arrived at the Center for Combat Training and Combat Use (Center) of the Aerospace Forces,stationed in Astrakhan.
Crew: 1 person.
maximum speed: 2.500 km/h.
maximum height: 20.000 m.
Combat load: 8.000 kg.
#Russia

🔗 Dana Levi דנה🇮🇱🇺🇸🇬🇧 (@Danale)

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India registers strong protest with US over Pakistan F-16 upgrade package

The package for Pakistan, which reversed the Trump admin's decision in 2018 to suspend such assistance to Islamabad, was announced while India was hosting top US officials,

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