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⚡️🇵🇰Very impressive breakdown by Pakistan Airforce spokesman Ahmed Aurangzeb of the 'largest air battle in history' that allegedly took place yesterday.
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A sensor system, developed with serious customer investment by Leonardo, is credibly claimed to detect and track radar-stealthy aircraft.
It doesn't work when developed in the US by, errm, the company who makes those aircraft.
Just. Fancy. That.
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Between 1980 and 1994 the Royal Navy submarine service conducted over 130 highly classified missions to gather intelligence or covert operations. Even though the files are closed, it is still possible to draw some significant conclusions from the archives. /1
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#BREAKING. A couple of hours ago, #Ukraine shot down two Russian 'high value' aircraft over the Russia-controlled Azov Sea - A-50 Mainstay, an early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft and Ilyushin IL-22, the airborne command post - the deputy head of the Ukr. parliamentary committee on security & defense Yuri Mysyahin said for the Ukrainian media. Both aircraft and their crews presumably vanished. It means, that during the war Russia already lost 2 out of 9 A-50s (the Ukrainian drone destroyed the first one on the airfield in Belarus in February 2023) and 2 out of 20 IL-22/IL-22M (the previous one was shot down by the Wagner mercenaries in June last year).
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Very useful visualization of russia using cruise missiles and Iranian drones to terrorize Ukraine. Several important lessons:
1/n
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Drone attacks on US troops in Middle East rise to 55 in under a month c4isrnet.com/news/your-milit…
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.@NATO selects @BoeingDefense E-7A #Wedgetail for its #AWACS replacement. Six aircraft to be delivered to @NATOAWACS, to begin operations from 2031... nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_…
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UPDATE:
U.S. MQ-9 confirmed to have been shot down over the Red Sea by Houthis in Yemen.
Major US naval power in confines of Red Sea now. Carrier Strike Group, Amphib Strike Group, & SSGN. Ups stakes for a transit south through the Mandeb. Story:
thedrive.com/the-war-zone/u-…
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Take this as a final warning. This isn't an evolving or developing tactic. This isn't a Ukrainian or Russian tactic. This is a baseline weapon of war.
If your force can't do it, they're ineffective. If every echelon of your force can't defend from it, they're vulnerable.
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US Air Force tests jamming pod on MQ-9 drone
defence-blog.com/us-air-forc…
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The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has announced that 11 out of the 28 Spans on the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant alongside the Turbine and Generator Building in the City of Nova Kakhovka were Destroyed earlier today with at least 80 Settlements which are Downstream from the Dam now beginning to Flood with “Critical Levels” expected in the next 4-5 hours.
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The Tánaiste is expected to confirm that Ireland is seeking greater co-operation with NATO later today, while also questioning whether the country's current security and neutrality arrangements are fit for purpose in 2023.
jrnl.ie/6070479t
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Airbus tees up new surveillance drone with ‘Made in Spain’ tack c4isrnet.com/unmanned/2023/0…
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The UK is the only major NATO nation to not raise defence spending since the invasion of Ukraine.
Massive defence cuts seem imminent unless spending rises. We are on verge of a critical failure of Government to keep the nation safe from all threats.
news.sky.com/story/treasury-…
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1/ More than 170 Hungarian generals and senior military officers have been forced into early retirement in recent days by Hungary's MoD, led by Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky. He is a former business partner of Transmashholding, a Russian state-owned company.
telex.hu/belfold/2023/01/20/…
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6/ Russia's import of drones is harder to fish out; we are likely missing a lot of transactions. Notably, there are none in 2021. Iran is not in the dataset.
Totals for 2022 (country maybe reg. of the intermediary):
China: 25
HK: 15
Netherlands: 7 (?)
India: 5
Turkey: 3
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1/ QUICK THREAD based on an interview in an article below with an operator of a Ukrainian heavy R-18 multirotor drone. Main points below:
R-18 operator Yevhen talks about the peculiarities of his work
i-vin.info/news/dron-%E2%80%…
#aerorozvidka #airreconnaissance #drone #droneoperator #Ukraine #war #StandWithUkraine
