🇺🇦🇷🇺 FP-2 combat drones of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) struck the oil depot FGKU “Gvardyiskyi” in Saky District of Crimea, used by Russian Armed Forces (AFRF), along with a pumping station on the oil depot’s premises.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Undated footage captured by a FPV drone show a Russian Molniya-2 One-Way Attack (OWA) drone striking Ukranian positions with yellow phosphorus. Ukranians assume that the yellow phosphorus is being crudely extracted from Soviet 120mm 3D5 mortar shells.

Russians have also mounted thermobaric warheads derived from the 93mm RPO-A “Shmel” rocket on this relatively cheap drone.

Soviet PTM-3 anti-vehicle (AV) mines have been mounted too on Geran-2/Shahed-136 & the ZALA “Lancet” drones to cut logistic routes of the Ukrainian Army.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇬🇧 Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 fighter jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for $3 million, and to fly it to the Romanian Air Force’s (RoAF) Mihail Kogălniceanu Air Base (57th AB) in the coastal city of Constanta – which hosts NATO & US troops assigned to the US Area Support Group Black Sea (ASG-BS)–, allegedly planning for a large-scale provocation, and accusing the investigative group “Bellingcat” to be involved in the alleged plot.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian Armed Forces (AFRF) launches Geran-2/Shahed-136 drone attacks from Crimea and Krasnodar in southern Ukraine against targets in Odessa.

🇺🇸 The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (CSG), led by the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), entered the US Southern Command Area of Responsibility (USSOUTHCOM-AOR). The CSG will augment Joint Forces already in the AOR, including the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group & a Marine Expeditionary Unit.

Alongside Gerald R. Ford, the Carrier strike group brings additional capable, lethal, and adaptable warfighting assets including the nine embarked squadrons of Carrier Air Wing Eight, Destroyer Squadron Two’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Bainbridge (DDG 96) and USS Mahan (DDG 72), and the integrated air and missile defense command ship USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81).

The embarked squadrons aboard Gerald R. Ford include Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 31, VFA 37, and VFA 87, flying the F/A-18E Super Hornet; VFA 213, flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet; Electronic Attack Squadron 142, flying the E/A-18G Growler; Airborne Command and Control Squadron 124, flying the airborne command and control E-2D Advanced Hawkeye; Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 9, flying the MH-60S Seahawk; Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70, flying the MH-60R Seahawk; and a detachment from Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, flying the Carrier Onboard Delivery C-2A Greyhound.

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/News-Stories/display-news/Article/4329588/gerald-r-ford-carrier-strike-group-enters-us-fourth-fleet/

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷 “Russia is ready for Istanbul negotiations with Ukraine at any moment, but Kyiv has not responded to previous initiatives,” says Alexey Ivanov, Charge d'Affaires of Russia in Turkey.

https://t.iss.one/tass_agency/347998

🇺🇦🇩🇰 Under the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) arrangement and the Danish Model (DM), the Danish Goverment has agreed to supply Kyiv with a new military aid package worth 1.4 billion Danish kroner, which is about 217 million US dollars.

Under the DM, 100 million kroner will go to the production of weapons in Ukraine, more than 370 million kroner are allocated for the purchase of American weapons, and 80 million for fuel, which will be procured through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency.

https://www.fmn.dk/da/nyheder/2025/finansielle-donationer-skal-styrke-ukraines-kamp-mod-rusland/

Very busy day today for the U.S. Air Force and NATO over Europe, with a Norwegian P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft heading northeast for a patrol off Northern Russia, while a U.S. Air Force RC-135U “Combat Sent” Electronic Surveillance Aircraft and a NATO E-3A “Sentry” Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) Aircraft head east for their respective routine patrols near the border with Russia and Ukraine.

Additional, two KC-135s are refueling a pair of B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers over the North Sea who will soon head northeast towards Finland, and several French A330 Multirole Tanker Transports (MRTT) have departed Istres-Le Tubé Air Base in Southern France heading east towards Romania.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Deep Strike units of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) struck with drones Stavrolen gas processing plant in Russia’s Stavropol Territory.

🇺🇸 1x US Air Force B-52 "Stratofortress" (#AE58B0) -- one of the two bombers that departed Moron Air Base in Spain as it was reported in the morning -- is now refueling over Estonia by a KC-135R/T (#AE05AB) from Geilenkirchen NATO AB in Germany.

🇺🇸 Also, the RC-135U "Combat Sent" (JAKE37 & #AE01D4) is returning to RAF Mildenhall following a reconnaissance tour over the Baltic Sea and near Fin-Russian border.

🇺🇸🇳🇴 The P-8A “Poseidon” of the Norway Air Force (Reg: 9585) seems to have completed its flight north of the country. Another NATO E-3 (NATO40) is now airborne over Germany.

1x US Navy P-8A (#AE688F) is conducting a surveillance east of the Mediterranean near Lebanon and Syria.

🇮🇶🇰🇼 Seven flights (JZR638D - JZR1448 - JZR702D - JZR736D - FYC703 - JZR512D - JZR708D) initially diverted to Basra International Airport due to adverse weather returned to Kuwait International Airport this morning.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Goverment-funded Russian Drone Program uses video games to teach kids how to operate drones in exchange for extra points in their university exams.

Interesting.

🇮🇶🇺🇸 The US State Department has approved a $100 million deal to supply Iraq with Command-and-Control (C2) equipment package, including Radio Access Points, handheld dismounted radios, radio base station systems, and radio repeater systems, along with Very High Frequency (VHF) vehicular radios, WiMax equipment, and intermediate-power amplifier systems for both base stations and vehicles, and Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSATs) for satellite communication. In addition to all of this, the package includes routers, switches, IT racks, shelters, solar-power components, cameras, and spare parts to build a nationwide repeater network.

🔗 DSCA

🇫🇷 France releases first images of the latest version of its Air-Sol Moyenne Portee (ASMP/Medium-range air-to-surface) ramjet-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile, assembled on a Navy Rafale-M jet (the white missile in the middle), belonging to the service’s Force Aeronavale Nucleaire (FANU/Naval Nuclear Aviation Force), which conducted a test launch of an ASMPA-R (Navy’s Renove variant), without a live warhead, as part of what was dubbed “Operation Diomede.”

🔗 Images analyzed by TWZ

🇹🇷🇺🇸 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that US President Donald Trump expressed a clear will to resolve the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) issue during his September meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the act which prevents Turkey since 2020 from buying the Next-Gen Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightining II fighter jets for purchasing two Russian S-400 “Triumph” SAM defense systems.