CHINA – Footage from an air defense exercise in Guangdong province of the air defense unit of the 74th Army of the Ground Forces of the PLA Southern Command.

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NEW – South Korea plans to test its "Hycore" hypersonic cruise missile by the end of the year / early 2024

📌 Land and air (KF-21) based variants.

📌 Hypersonic glider vehicle to be shown soon.

📌 Two-stage rocket booster - Dual-mode scramjet

📌 Max speed of Mach 6++

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JUST IN – The Spanish Army's NASAMS SAM battery will be deployed to secure the NATO summit in Vilnius on July 11-12.

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NEW – Germany has awarded Diehl Defence a contract for 6 IRIS-T SLM batteries

Contract value was previously estimated at 950 million € and will see the first deliver in as early as Q3 2024.

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ISRAEL – Against the background of talk about export of Merkava tanks, the IDF today introduced a new heavy infantry fighting vehicle Tiger 1500.

The machine is equipped with a new 1500 hp engine, touch screens, increased mobility and speed.

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BREAKING – US House passes amendment to equip Kurdistan's Peshmerga with US air defense systems, following Iran strikes.

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US Coast Guard’s cutter Stratton Jun 20 transited the Taiwan Strait after weeks of operating in South China Sea. This is the 4th time the US sent ships through the strait in 2023 & the 1st coast guard cutter to do so.

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JUST IN – Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs just confirmed that the US aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is expected to make a port visit to Da Nang from June 25th to 30th.

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The Israeli concern IAI presented a new reconnaissance aircraft IAI Golfstream Mars2 IAI concern been partner of the Gulfstream company for many years, and all the business jets class G250/280/300 are completely developed in Israel, and produced at one of the IAI plants.

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BREAKING – China: Official Weibo account of the PLA have hinted, the aircraft carrier Fujian will begin sea trails soon.

⚠️ China will enter the 3 carrier era.

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Satellites have recorded the passage of the aircraft carrier strike group of the Chinese Navy along the "median line" of the Taiwan Strait - the unofficial border between China and the island state.

Chinese ships "border" did not cross. Passed right along it. The ships of the Taiwanese Navy followed a parallel course.

The combat aviation of the PLA regularly crosses the "median line".

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Pro-Syrian Army sources: The terrorists based in Idlib and its suburbs will soon face a harsh response from the Syrian Arab Army and will pay a heavy price for their crimes.

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Despite the growing tensions between Serbia and Kosovo, the US military held a joint military exercise with the Serbian military today.

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⚡⚡Wagner Group soldiers having some coffee while launching their military coup against Russian army.

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1,700 units of Wagner PMC equipment arrived in Russia from Ukraine, - Russian media citing Russian war correspondents.

🔗 Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en)

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BREAKING – The Russian army blocked the bridge over the Oka river south of Moscow to stop Wagner PMC troops from approaching the capital.

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Chechen leader Kadyrov announced, support of Putin, - calls this a military coup, requests Wagners to lay down weapons.

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Heavy Wagner convoy with active air defense in Voronezh Oblast, moving with at least one Pantsir-S1 SAM system, Strela-10 SAM system, and multiple BMPs and tanks (T-72B3, T-80BV) loaded on equipment haulers.

🔗 OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical)

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BREAKING –Kadyrov’s Chechen soldiers start arriving to Rostov.

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Chechen special forces on the way to Rostov after Wagner PMC troops captured the city

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BREAKING – "Many military units in the Lipetsk region have gone over to the side of Wagner and are moving towards Moscow" - Prigozhin's channel reports

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