RQ-180 Secret Stealth Drone Appears To Have Made An Emergency Landing At A Greek Air Base Spotters in Greece have caught an especially good look at what appears to be a particularly secretive drone.

Article from #TheWarZone

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The US has several options to counter Iranian mines. These are some key assets. The U.S. Navy decommissioned its only four minesweepers in the Middle East last year, but still maintains other countermine capabilities it can deploy.

#TheWarZone article on subject

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U.S. Navy Minesweepers Assigned To Middle East Have Been Moved To Pacific Two of the three Littoral Combat Ships that had taken over the minesweeping role in the Middle East have just appeared in Malaysia.

#TheWarZone article covering it

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U.S.-Israeli War With Iran Enters Day Two (Updated) U.S.-Israeli strike and Iranian retaliation continues amid new uncertainly with the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's death.

#Iran #USA #Israel coverage by #TheWarZone

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Claims Swirl Around Government's Response To Cartel Drone Threat That Prompted El Paso Airspace Closure The shutdown of airspace over El Paso highlights the still vexing nature of drone threats over the United States.

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Coverage from #TheWarZone incl. update on #PartyBalloons 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷

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Shadow Fleet Tanker Seizure Operations Expand In The Face Of Russian Warnings Following America's lead, the boarding and diversion of the Grinch came as Europe is drawing up new plans to go after Russia's shadow fleet.

#TheWarZone coverage of #Grinch seizure

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First Contingent Of European Troops Operating Outside Of NATO Have Arrived In Greenland The tiny, largely symbolic force arrives as the White House continues to voice its desires to acquire the Arctic island. While very small in number, larger-scale maneuvers are planned for this year,...

Coverage by #TheWarZone

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Let’s Talk About The Mysterious “Civilian-Style” Plane Used To Strike A Drug Boat Common Launch Tubes make it possible to discreetly arm virtually any aircraft, including types that might appear to be entirely civilian.

#US #USA using civilian-appearing aircraft for boat-attacks

#TheWarZone

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Hellfire-Armed Drone-Killing Buggy Appears In Ukrainian Service Based on a high-mobility chassis, the Hellfire-toting Tempest is a recent addition to Ukraine’s drone-hunting force. Based on a high-mobility chassis, the Hellfire-toting Tempest is a recent addition ...

Buggy from Hell !

#TheWarZone

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Days Of Rage, Nights Of Flames Across Iran Increasingly intense protests have spread across Iran over rising prices, devalued currency and government crackdowns.

#TheWarZone #TWZ coverage of the escalating situation in #Iran

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Is This Russian Rescue Ship Really "Putin’s New Yacht?" There are longstanding rumors that the Project 23700 class ship may have a secondary function as a luxurious leisure vessel. There are longstanding rumors that the Project 23700 class may, at the very...

Rescue vessel or Putins yacht ?

#Russia #Putin #Project23700 #Voyevoda

#TheWarZone

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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Seen Pursuing Fleeing Russian Oil Tanker For First Time (Updated) The pursuit of the tanker Marinera comes as the U.S. continues pouring aviation assets into the U.K. ahead of a potential boarding effort.

#USCG in pursuit of #Bella1 / #Marinera

Pic from crew via #Russia media

#TheWarZone

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From #TheWarZone

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Explosions Ring Out Across Caracas As U.S. Special Ops Helicopters Fly Over City It appears that a major U.S. military operation is now underway within Venezuela.

#TheWarZone coverage of #Caracas #Venezuela #NewYearStrikes #NewYearAttack #NewYearInvasion (?) by #US #USA #Trump

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Update to #TheWarZone article with more pictures

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Danish P-8 Sale Set To Boost Poseidon’s Northern Footprint Denmark is investing in new maritime patrol aircraft to bolster its capabilities in the Baltic and North Atlantic, with a particular focus on Greenland. Denmark is investing in new maritime patrol air...

#TheWarZone article on #P8 #Poseidon for #DK #Denmark

#BalticSea #Greenland #NorthAtlantic

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Chinese Cargo Ship Converted To Launch Advanced Combat Drones Emerges China has reconfigured its medium cargo ship-turned improvised warship into a drone carrier, but just how realistic is what we are seeing?

#TMDLECS now mounted on the cargo ship
#China #Drone #DroneWarfare

#TheWarZone

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Is This China’s Truck-Mounted Electromagnetic Catapult? Having a scalable truck-based catapult concept for land-launched larger drone operations could open up new operational possibilities.

#TMDLECS ? #TruckMountedDroneLaunchingElectromagneticCatapultSystem

#China #Drone #DroneWarfare

#TheWarZone

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Ukraine Now Using Drone Boats To Attack Russian Riverine Targets Ukraine's drone boat attacks on the Dnipro River mark an expansion of Kyiv's campaign against Russian targets on or near the water.

#TheWarZone

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Pentagon To Contract Fleet Of Seaplanes For The Pacific The lack of an American amphibious aircraft capability has become more glaring as the possibility of a conflict with China looms larger.

#Seaplanes #Amphibious #Aircraft for #US #USA ?

#Pacific

#TheWarZone

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What We Know About The Trump Class "Battleship" The USS Defiant would be the first Trump class battleship, but major questions remain about affordability and logic of such a massive design.

#BB #Trump #Battleship

#USA #US #USN

#Trump-admin is like #Hollywood :

More & Bigger explosions = Better entertainment
(Everything is Showbiz)

#TheWarZone

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Navy’s New Frigate Will Not Have A Vertical Launch System For Missiles FF(X) will initially have the same armament installed as the Littoral Combat Ships, relying on uncrewed platforms and modular payloads for expanded capability.

No #VLS #VerticalLaunchSystem on new #US #USA #USN frigates #FF(x) ?

( based on #USCG #CoastGuard design)

#TheWarZone

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Ukraine To Get More S-300 Interceptors With Norway’s Help Norway says it will pay for the badly needed missiles for Ukraine's S-300s, but there are questions about where they will come from.

#NO #Norway support to #UKR #Ukraine

#S300 #S-300 #AirDefence

#TheWarZone

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Mystery Surrounds Luxury 737 That Appears To Be Flying For Department Of Homeland Security DHS is buying 737s for deportation flights, but the appearance of one with an apparently luxurious interior for senior leaders is unexpected.

Interesting #TheWarZone article on a mystery #DHS luxury #VIP jet

#Boeing737

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@altw.bsky.social
@fluegeltyp.bsky.social

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Australia’s Unwanted Tiger Attack Helicopters May Go To Ukraine: Reports After rejecting its request for MRH90 battlefield support helicopters, the Australian government is weighing up sending Tiger ARHs to Ukraine. After rejecting its request for MRH90 battlefield support...

#Australia #AUS #Tiger Attack Helicopters for #UKR #Ukraine ?

#TheWarZone

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U.S. Army AH-64E Apache's Counter-Drone Capability Rapidly Matures Apaches scored 13 drone kills out of 14 engagements during Operation Flyswatter, reflecting the AH-64’s evolving counter-UAS capabilities. Apaches scored 13 drone kills out of 14 engagements during Op...

#Apache #AH64e #anti-drone #counterdrone capabilities maturing

#dronewarfare

#TheWarZone

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Unique Russian A-60 Laser Testbed Jet Destroyed In Ukrainian Attack Ukraine’s latest long-range attack on a Russian airbase claimed the one-off laser-armed aircraft and an important radar testbed. Ukraine’s latest long-range attack on a Russian airbase claimed the one...

#Russia lost #A60 #A-60 to #Ukraine

#TheWarZone

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Japan's Plan To Put SAMs On Strategic Island 70 Miles From Taiwan Could Be Just The Beginning Yonaguni Island recently hosted U.S. Marines and now Japan is looking to deploy air defenses there, which could expand to other kinetic capabilities.

#Japan increading defenses on #Yonaguni close to #Taiwan

#TheWarZone

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Such glorious colors!

#fallfoliage #thewarzone #portland

Our Best Look At Germany’s New PEGASUS Surveillance Jet After abandoning plans to field a Global Hawk-derived signals intelligence platform, Germany will introduce the bizjet-based PEGASUS. After abandoning plans to field a Global Hawk-derived signals inte...

#DE #Germany #Luftwaffe #SigInt #Jet #Pegasus on its way!

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#TWZ #TheWarzone