🇱🇧🇮🇱Hezbollah has published a video of an FPV drone striking another launcher of the Iron Dome air defense system in the same place where a previous one was hit earlier .

However, there is a suggestion that in both cases, the victims of the drones might have been high-quality mock-ups:

▪️On both of the hit launchers, there are no central lifting hydraulic cylinders, characteristic of real launchers, but there are extra slats.

▪️There are also no connection cables on the sides, protruding supports, and a characteristic antenna on the left.

▪️In addition, the central part of the support part looks completely empty, whereas in reality, various mechanisms are located there.

It is likely that the IDF is deliberately placing these mock-ups in the same place, provoking Hezbollah's drone operators to hit a convenient but not real target.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The landing of the special unit Force Recon from the 31st Expeditionary Unit of the US Marine Corps on the Iran-linked tanker Celestial Sea under the flag of Aruba in the Gulf of Oman.

The landing was carried out without parachutes from the helicopter SH-60 Seahawk under the cover of the helicopter UH-1Y Venom, which took off from the deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) states that the detained vessel was suspected of attempting to violate the American blockade of Iranian ports, but was released after a search with an order to change its course.

Over the entire period of the blockade, according to CENTCOM, 91 commercial vessels were redirected.

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🇷🇺🇬🇧Russian fighter jets intercepted a British reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea, according to the British Ministry of Defense.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺Donald Trump called the situation absurd, in which Russia has several dozen icebreakers, while the US has only one, he said during a speech to graduates of the US Coast Guard Academy.

"We will have a lot of icebreakers. You know, Russia has 48 of them, and we have one, and that one is very old. It's ridiculous," Trump said.

Trump has repeatedly emphasized that the US is seriously lagging behind Russia in terms of the icebreaker fleet. At the moment, the US Coast Guard has one serviceable icebreaker - the Polar Star.

Russia's Arctic fleet includes 42 icebreakers, including eight nuclear and 34 diesel-electric ones. Trump added that he plans to increase the US icebreaker fleet to at least 55 units.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾Russia has demonstrated the delivery of nuclear warheads to the territory of Belarus.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that nuclear munitions have been delivered to the storage points of the missile brigade in Belarus.

This is happening as part of exercises, where Belarusian military personnel are practicing the equipping of missile carriers with "special munitions", the covert deployment of units, and preparation for launches.

Recall that Belarus and Russia are currently conducting nuclear exercises, including with the use of "Iskander" missiles, designed for strikes on Europe.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷The USA has deployed the USS Spruance and USS John Finn destroyers with laser weapons designed to blind and disorient drones in the Arabian Sea, southeast of Iran.

They are under the command of CENTCOM, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East.

In previous instances, before an attack, the US also prepared by deploying strike groups as close as possible to Iran.

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🇺🇸The White House published a photo of Nicolas Maduro, Ali Khamenei, and Raul Castro with the caption: "America's enemies, neutralized by Trump."

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🇨🇺🇺🇸Cuba continues to prepare for a possible US attack to the best of its ability and understanding.

And again, in the exercises, the only relatively modern air defense system in the Cuban arsenal is the S-125-2BM.

In general, in the event of a massive US attack, these air defense systems would only have a chance of success in ambushes and when using passive channels (fortunately, there is thermal imaging). And even then, only if the enemy's reconnaissance does not detect them earlier and the enemy enters the zone of assured defeat.

After all, the initial balance of forces and geography cannot be ignored.
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🇱🇻🇺🇦At least one drone has again entered Latvia, according to the country's army.

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