Over the past eight weeks, the Russian military has "violated" an agreement to prevent conflicts with the US military in northeast Syria more than 60 times.

Russian military aircraft fly at a distance of less than 200 meters from American aircraft, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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Ukraine is ready to seize small Russian towns to use them as leverage to return Russian-held territories, Bohdan Krotevich, a spokesman for the Azov Battalion told The Washington Post.

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New US spy sub built for seabed warfare with China

$5.1 billion sub to succeed USS Jimmy Carter and may be deployed to disrupt China’s undersea ‘Peace Cable’ stretching for 15,000 km connecting to Europe and Africa.

https://asiatimes.com/2023/04/new-us-spy-sub-built-for-seabed-war-with-china/

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Ten Norwegian diplomats declared persona non grata in Russia

The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed the expulsion of 10 employees of the Norwegian embassy as a response.

The Norwegian ambassador was also told that other measures would follow in connection with Oslo's actions, including restrictions on the hiring of personnel from Russians by the diplomatic mission.

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UKRAINE – Official footage of the US-made Patriot air defense missile system being put on combat duty in Ukraine has been published.

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It is possible that SSBN 741 Maine, which was recently seen in Guam, will be sent to Korea.

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The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced an estimate of the size of the Russian group in the NVO zone. These are 48 brigades, 122 regiments, about 315 formations.

A total of 369,000 personnel and about 6,000 pieces of heavy weapons are involved.

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UKRAINE – Italian donated M109L in action in Ukraine, 20 are present with an additional 40 on their way shortly. Italy is still refurbishing even more M109L’s which will be sent later during the year, the plan likely being to fully transfer the remaining ones Italy has access to.

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38 Aircraft and 6 Ships from the People’s Liberation Army Navy and Air Force approached the Median-Line yesterday between Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland, of the 38 Aircraft at least 19 including a TB-001 Combat Drone crossed the Line and entered the Taiwanese Air Defense Zone.

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Indian Navy's largest and the most advanced guided missile destroyer, INS Imphal—commenced sea trials today.

—INS Imphal the 3rd of the Project 15B (Vizag class) stealth destroyer is to be commissioned later this year.

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According Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov the first Caesar self-propelled howitzer from Denmark have arrived in Ukraine.

Denmark announced few months ago to donate their entire arsenal of that SPG type, altogether 19 vehicles.

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TAIWAN – The Taiwan Air Force carried out the initial combat evaluation of the "Strongbow Project" in August last year. Two "Strongbow interceptor missiles" were launched from the Jiupeng base and one target missile was intercepted to verify the system's ability to detect, engage and fight missiles. The test results All meet the verification standards, and will start planning the mass production phase.

Taiwan version of THAAD system (THAAD) is about to be born.

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USA – The M1A2 SEP v3, the U.S. Army's newest version of the venerable Abrams Main Battle Tank.

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The UK has signed a contract with Poland for 1.9 billion pounds for the supply of CAMM air defense systems

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FRANCE – Yesterday, the nuclear-powered icebreaker FS Suffren S635 left French Toulon for the sea.

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