Ukraine released footage from the tests of its new unmanned underwater vehicle, called "Marichka" ("Марічка").

According to available information, this UUV has the range of over 1,000km. It can perform strike, transport or reconnaissance missions.

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TAIWAN – 6 Chinese PLA aircraft and 8 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were
detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8)

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SYRIA – The head of the U.S. Army Central Command, General Eric Kurilla, visited the Al-Hul and Al-Roj camps, where thousands of women and children of IS fighters are being held in captivity due to security reasons.

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US CENTCOM COMMANDER VISITS SYRIAN CAMPS – READOUT

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A record number of foreign reconnaissance aircraft was seen yesterday over Romania and the Black Sea:

2 Boeing E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft

Electronic reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed EP-3E Aries II

Bombardier Challenger 650 ARTEMIS

High-altitude reconnaissance drone RQ-4B Global Hawk.

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The U.S. and South Korea recently kicked off Ulchi Freedom Shield, 11 days of training designed to test their combined capabilities against North Korea’s military with more than 30 separate drills.

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Turkish Navy Preveze-class 209T1/1400 attack submarine TCG Anafartalar (S-356) southbound in the Bosphorus - August 23, 2023

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected the Korean People's Army Navy’s newest Amnok-class corvette capable of launching cruise missiles.

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BREAKING – The exercise Arctic Fighter Meet has begun. Norwegian F-35, Swedish JAS Gripen and Finnish F-18 are flying against each other in dogfights, one against one.

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URGENT – Former Pentagon chief Mark Esper is in Taiwan

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MALI – Yesterday evening around 07:00pm Moscow time, a few hours after the Wagner private jet crash, a "Ministry for Emergency Situations" Il-76 (reg. RA-76841) took off from Zhukovsky Airport to Damascus, Syria (2h stopover), until the flight continued & just arrived in Bamako.

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The Taiwan Cabinet has approved a total defense budget for 2024 of NT$606.8 billion ($19.1 billion), which is 2.5% of the country's GDP.

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Norway will be the third country to donate F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. This is
reported by the channel TV2.

Earlier, Denmark and the Netherlands promised to transfer aircraft to Ukraine.

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BREAKING – BELARUS – The Wagner PMC camp near Osipovichi is being dismantled.
Developing story...

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Norway will donate IRIS-T A2A missiles to Ukraine for use in the IRIS-T SLS TEL's that Germany has donated.

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The U.S. has approved a US$500 million F-16 support package for Taiwan. The deal includes search and tracking systems to help protect the aircraft.

🔗 TaiwanPlus

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The United States believes that the military equipment supplied to Kyiv is sufficient for a counteroffensive, such volumes of assistance are hardly worth waiting for in 2024, writes the American newspaper Wall Street Journal.

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BREAKING – The Pentagon plans to start training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets in the United States in September - NYT with reference to an unnamed American official.

According to the newspaper, the US has changed its approach and decided to join the training of pilots.

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UPDATE – The U.S. in October at a military base in Arizona will begin to train Ukrainian pilots to pilot the F-16, before that they will take an English course, the Pentagon reports.

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