🇺🇸⚡️ — Lockheed Martin has unveiled the new PAC-3 Adapted Capability Effector (ACE) interceptor for the Patriot air defense system.

Designed to reduce the cost of air and missile defense, the PAC-3 ACE is expected to cost less than half the price of a PAC-3 MSE interceptor, potentially under $2 million compared to roughly $4 million for the PAC-3 MSE.

The PAC-3 ACE is intended to intercept less sophisticated ballistic missile threats, allowing the more capable PAC-3 MSE to be reserved for the most demanding targets.

Imagine making an interceptor that's even worse than the PAC-3 MSE, which already struggles to intercept Russian and Iranian ballistic missiles. Makes sense.

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🇾🇪🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — BREAKING: Houthis announce a maritime blockade on Saudi Arabia, effective immediately, framing it as a "blockade for a blockade" response to the ongoing Saudi siege.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Intermediaries between Iran and the United States are proposing a 10-day ceasefire to discuss options for reviving the interim agreement.

This was reported by the Reuters news agency, citing a source in Iran.

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🇮🇷❌🇧🇭🇺🇸 — Sirens in Bahrain.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Private Isabella Gonzales, 19, has been identified as one of the US soldiers killed in an Iranian strike on Jordan three days ago.

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🇺🇦⚡️ — Children are bathing in the Black Sea near Odesa with a fragment of a Geran drone.

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🇮🇷❌🇰🇼 — Kuwait reports it is currently under Iranian attack.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — WATCH: The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released footage of solid-fuel Kheibar Shekan, Fateh-110, and Zolfaghar missiles, as well as liquid-fuel Emad ballistic missiles, being launched in precision strikes against US positions in the region as part of waves 21 and 22 of Operation Nasr 2.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — A ballistic missile launch has been reported from Omidiyeh, Khuzestan Province, Iran.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israeli forces demolished a house that was under construction in the town of Beit Liqya, located west of Ramallah in the West Bank.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The US is deploying additional F-16 and F-35 fighter jets from European bases, along with aerial refueling tankers, to the Middle East as Trump weighs options in the escalating conflict with Iran, CNN reports.

➡️ Trump has received a Situation Room briefing on options to intensify the war, including a potential seizure of Kharg Island or strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Pickaxe Mountain.

➡️ A diplomatic resolution has not been ruled out — Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the door to negotiations remains open.

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