🇪🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine asks EU for 250’000 artillery shells a month. - Financial Times.

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🇮🇱 Israel’s domestic front risks implosion.

With the return last November of the government of the veteran "Bibi" Netanyahu who built a majority composed of extremist political forces, Israel risks blowing up an internal cauldron with a highly precarious balance. Likud is joined by Orthodox ultra-Zionism such as Ben Gvir, the new security minister, and by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who immediately clarified the intentions of the new executive.

😢We start from last January, Ben Gvir, previously accused of embracing forms of Islamophobia and legitimizing the expulsion of Arabs from the Jewish State at a time when, instead, they should be assimilated given the growing demographic expansion of them in Israel, always subordinate to the law of the Nation-State approved by the Knesset in 2018 that puts at the center the indisputable Jewish identity of Israel above all, decides to visit the Esplanade of the Mosques in Jerusalem, place of worship disputed between the different religions that live together. Dangerous action that led to new threats from Hamas, the condemnation of Jordan and the request of the United States to "maintain order and the status quo". Washington wants to avoid catastrophic destabilizations in a region that it considers currently secondary after the decades of the War on Terror and in which it does not want to return massively. It therefore calls on the Israeli ally to keep calm by defusing the dangerous transformations of the status quo in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The plans for the semi-annexation of the Netanyahu government of the West Bank, which announced the expansion of the IDF’s military occupation following a series of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem that resulted in the deaths of 14 Israelis and several dozen Palestinians, a red line that cannot be crossed for the USA remains.

🇺🇸The situation remained tense despite the arrival of US Secretary of State Blinken in Israel at the end of January, who tried to mediate between the parties. A dialogue, that between Jerusalem and Washington, which is now at a standstill, if not of tension if it were not for the common interest to avoid a nuclear Iran putting on the table all options, including the military action that is done every day that passes more concrete than ever.

The extreme action of the government of Netanyahu, probably not legitimized by the apparatus of Mossad and Shin Bet, not only constitutes a danger for the internal stability of the Jewish State but also for the Arab Emirates on which Washington’s diplomacy has worked allowing a historical normalization of relations with Israel in 2020 through the agreements of Abraham that can find a Stop or stall beat.

It is not by chance that the United States has condemned Israel in the last few hours following statements by the Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, suggesting that the Palestinian town of Huwara be razed. The US State Department called the proposal "repulsive and disgusting".

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🇺🇦🗡Ukraine will receive twice as many Challenger 2 tanks from the UK as originally promised by London. This was announced by Ukraine's ambassador to London, Vadim Prystaiko.

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🇷🇺 Russia for the first time in Ukraine used a new gliding bomb weighing 1500 kg (basically Russia equivalent of JDAM). According to the publication, the first use of this type was recorded in the Chernihiv region. The bomb can be dropped 40km from the target from a height of 46.000 feet. - Defense Express.

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🗡 Armin Papperger (CEO of Rheinmetall) says company is negotiating with Kyiv on establishing “Panther” MBT production in Ukraine. Says talks are promising, hopes for decision in two months.

💰Cost is 200 mln euro for infrastructure, aims to produce 400 Panther per year.

🇺🇦 We can understand Kiev's desire to attract Western “capital”, but it's a mistake. Ukraine has a good "know-how" on MBTs, for the example the T-80 "OplotM" which is the best variant of the T-80s (better than the Russian variants). The problem is that the "project" has been blocked for “absence of budget” and so not being able to bring it in with the Ukrainian army.

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🇺🇸 The US Army Chief of Staff, General Mark Milley, visited northeastern Syria and held talks with some of the more than 900 American troops in the country. Milley reiterated the maintenance of the US military to counter the Islamic State troops not completely removed from the country in civil war for more than a decade. The US military in Syria also serves to combat Iranian threats from Iraq and Syria. The intentions of Milley and the Pentagon are aligned with the will to fight the regime of the Ayatollahs despite the progressive American disengagement from the Middle East and despite Iran being a tactical and not a strategic problem for Washington.

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🏳️ 🇦🇿 MoD of the Republic of Artsakh reports that a group of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan attacked a car of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic, causing the death of a police officer.

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🇷🇺 The Wagner Group opened at least 3 new recruitment centers at sports clubs in Russia between March 2-4, possibly to augment Wagner Group’s recruitment base after losing access to prisoner recruits

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🇷🇺 Prigozhin said his representative was denied access to the headquarters of the Russian military operation in Ukraine

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🇹🇼🇺🇸 According to Financial Times, Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen has convinced US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy to meet in California instead of in Taipei in a bid to avoid an aggressive response from Beijing.

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🇺🇸 General Atomics LongShot program has been selected to progress into phase 2 of its development and it's on track to make the first test flight in 2024. It aims to revolutionise the aerial warfare domain with a system of air dropped ucav’s armed with air to air weaponry. Current air superiority concepts rely on stealthy manned fighters to penetrate the enemy airspace and deliver their weaponry effectively, with LongShot the manned platforms will be allowed to stay at longer stand off ranges thus improving massively their survivability and lethality. The ucavs will basically create a dynamic, cost effective, interchangeable and very hardly counterable fast moving aerial A2/AD bubble. From other programs developments we can immagine that such drones will also have modular sensor and armament suites. The company mentions that the drones will be air dropped but doesn't state which recovery method will be used, aerial recovery in the likes of an aircraft carrier Is extremely difficult even with the best possibile AI due to the dynamic nature of weather conditions, which can lead to serious problems if non optimal.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine seeks US cluster bombs to adapt for drone use, lawmakers say.

🚀 Kyiv has urged members of Congress to press the White House to approve sending the weapons but it is by no means certain that the Biden administration will sign off on that. Ukraine is seeking the MK-20 “Rockeye II”, an air to ground cluster bomb, said U.S. Representatives Jason Crow and Adam Smith, who both serve on the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. That is in addition to 155 mm artillery cluster shells that Ukraine already has requested, they said.

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🏳️ Armenian-Azerbaijan tensions rising the possibility of another confrontation for the control of Karabakh.
Along the border, Armenian Forces are preparing trenches and bunkers. The officials of both sides say they are preparing for the worst. Armenian Forces uses truck tires to build bunkers and trenches, but this was useless in the last Karabakh war.

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🇰🇵 Kim Yo Jong: “If the United States takes military action against North Korea’s strategic weapon tests, the DPRK will view it as a declaration of war.”
She also added that the Pacific Ocean does not belong to the domain of the United States or Japan and NK is ready to take 'overwhelming' actions against enemies.

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🇮🇱 Military analysis of the think tank dedicated to the Middle East "The 24News" underlining the concern of the United States about Israel’s intentions towards Iran. Washington fears that the Jewish State may attack Iran’s nuclear sites without warning by bypassing coordination with the Pentagon. These concerns have led US Chief of Staff Mark Milley to meet his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant.

🇺🇸 The news counterbalances the visit of the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin who will arrive in Israel on Thursday after going to Jordan today ensuring military cooperation and discussing the Palestinian dossier in view of the recent, serious tensions between Israel and Palestine and the approach of Ramadan.

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