U.S. Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Surveillance Aircraft is currently Deployed to the Southeastern part of Romania, tracking activity in The Black Sea - RoINTEL

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🪂 🇸🇾 "Parachute airdrop training for special mission units in the Syrian Arab Army continues intensively and on a large scale in various environments. Parachute forces have been prepared and trained intensively for many months, raising the level of efficiency and improving equipment. Intensive training and preparation courses have also been conducted in Russia."

US Central Command announced the arrival of a US Navy Ohio-class nuclear submarine in the Middle East.

The guided missile version of the Ohio-class submarine is armed with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

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SYRIA – From the training of special mission units in the Syrian Arab Army.

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Taiwan's military is ordering 10,000 locally made Kestrel rocket launchers, which will be used to train next year's intake of one-year connoscripts.

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The dynamic presence of Chinese and US aircraft carriers in the Philippine Sea
in recent days.

🔗 Duan Dang

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Chinese PLA Navy aircraft carrier Shandong, has likely completed training in joint sailing and air wing operations in the northern and central parts of the Philippine Sea and headed home, bypassing the southern spurs of Taiwan.

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Senior U.S. Officials have reportedly been Warning the Iranian Government and Iranian-Backed Militias in the Middle East such as Hezbollah for several weeks now, both Directly and through Back-Channels in Countries like Turkey, that if they decide to launch a Significant or Coordinated Attack on Israel then the United States will Respond Militarily.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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Recently China’s aircraft carrier Shandong ran exercises in the West Pacific east of Taiwan & Philippines, here's a basic plot showing its route along with previous PLA carrier exercise undertaken in Dec 2022/April 2023

🔗 Damien Symon

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Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the US and UK have kept a keen eye on the region with a heavy presence of ISR flights in the Eastern Mediterranean.

This map shows flights over the region from October 15th to November 5th 2023.

🔗 Orion Intel

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Japan, leaders of the G7 group of countries have insisted their military and economic support for Ukraine "will never waver", even amid growing tensions in the Middle East. Foreign ministers said they recognised Russia's prepared for a long war.

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Ukraine could get 2 MQ9 Reaper drones with transport, training, maintenance and spare parts for 1 USD. And there's 100 more
gathering dust in a warehouse.

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NEW – The US State Department has approved a potential deal to sell Abrams main battle tanks to Romania for an estimated $2.53 billion - Reuters

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