🇮🇳 A cow got killed while touching an electric transformer in India, so obviously the citizen decided to beat up the transformer for killing the sacred animal.

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Trump has ordered the U.S. Navy to return to steam catapults on future Ford-class carriers, starting with USS Doris Miller (CVN-81).

The problem: its EMALS system is already nearly 50% complete, and redesigning the ship could cost billions and cause major delays.

Full steam backwards. Literally.

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Russian S-400 intercepting the Black sea.

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Trump imposed 10-100% tariffs on drones and components from all countries including allies.

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Germany needs more bases as its military expands.

Former bases being prepared for Bundeswehr return:

▪️ Graf-Stauffenberg-Kaserne — Sigmaringen
▪️ Unteroffizier-Krüger-Kaserne — Kusel
▪️ Kurpfalz-Kaserne — Speyer
▪️Kanaal-van-Wessem-Kaserne — Soest
▪️ Ray Barracks — Friedberg

Additional sites under consideration:

▪️ Rantzau-Kaserne — Boostedt
▪️ Hinrich-Wilhelm-Kopf-Kaserne — Cuxhaven
▪️ Former NATO JHQ complex — Mönchengladbach

🇩🇪 Fürstenfeldbruck is also being retained as a major Luftwaffe training site.

🇱🇹 Lithuania:

▪️ Rūdninkai — being built for 5000 personel of Germany’s permanently stationed 45th Armoured Brigade.
▪️ Rukla — new €300m complex sized for around 3,000 NATO/Lithuanian troops.

⚓ The Navy is also examining a second North Sea naval base, with Emden and Bremerhaven among the candidates.

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Cyprus is pushing Israel for Merkava Mk3/Mk4 tanks to replace its 82 Russian-built T-80U/UKs.

Earlier talks reportedly centred on roughly 50 Merkavas, while Greece subsequently offered 75–90 Leopard 1A5s. Cyprus rejected the Leopards after inspections found them unsuitable even as an interim solution.

Israel remains hesitant to release tanks potentially needed by the IDF.

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Turkey has occupied more than 36% of Cyprus for over half a century, while continuing its military occupation of parts of northern Syria.

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On 31 July 2026, a Ukrainian Army Mi-8 crashed in Kirovohrad Oblast during mission to disperse due to a Russian attack.

None of the 3 crew survived.

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Russia’s Arena-M APS appears to work against FPV drones but it can be depleted.

During the fighting near Maiak, Ukrainian drone specialist Dmytro Putiata, after speaking with the unit involved together with Rob Lee, said one Arena-equipped T-72B3A intercepted 7 FPVs before exhausting its countermeasures. Across 7 tanks, Ukrainians reportedly needed around 15–20 FPVs per tank to destroy them.

For comparison, published estimates for a normal tank/armoured vehicle are roughly 3–6 FPVs, with a Swedish study putting the average around 4–5.

Heavily protected “turtle tanks” can require 20–30+ FPVs, while exceptional “porcupine” vehicles have absorbed nearly 60 before being stopped.

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As of 11/08/2026, Ukrainian units have claimed to have intercepted a total of 113.788 Russian unmanned aerial vehicles of all types in the month of July 2026.

SBU's Alpha Center destroyed nearly 2,400 Russian vehicles, command vehicles and special equipment in the past month, cutting logistics on and well behind the front line.

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According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Unmanned Systems Units are currently launching an average of 250 mid-range (80-300km) drones per day.