🇷🇺🇺🇦🇹🇷 “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.

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🇫🇷 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.

🇮🇱🇸🇦 “Israel does not oppose the U.S. selling F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, but wants it be conditioned on the kingdom normalizing its relations with the Jewish state.” - Axios

JUST IN - Trump signs bill to "release the Epstein Files."

Source: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115579394833948106

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🇺🇸🇸🇦 Analysis: Two weeks after US media circulated reports of a nearing deal to sell the advanced fifth-gen F-35 Lighting II fighter jet to Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump confirmed the reports, during a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office where they answered media questions.

Trump said that they’re “working on getting that approved very quickly,” Saudi Arabia is expected to buy as many as 48x F-35 jets, along with initial spare parts and spare engines, that could be worth $5.3-$5.7 billion, not including munitions or possible contractor logistics support. The kingdom could get F-35s more swiftly than foreign customers usually do: the US Air Force (USAF) is on record as saying it prefers to wait to buy large numbers of F-35s until the in-development Block 4 upgrade comes to fruition.

Its unknown whether the aircraft would be as powerful as the ones Israel possesses. Israel opposes such deal, but some say the Jewish country could agree if the Kingdom normalizes its relationships with Tel Aviv, but Israe’s Channel 12 reported that the US will not condition the sale on a relationship normalization. Asked in the Oval Office whether the jets would be as powerful as Israel’s, Trump said that he thinks “its gonna be pretty similar,” although the in 2008, Congress amended the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) to state that any arms sale “to any country in the Middle East other than Israel shall include a determination that the sale or export of the defense articles or defense services will not adversely affect Israel’s qualitative military edge over military threats to Israel.”

I think that it would definitely be lower in capabilities. Earlier Reuters reported that the Saudi F-35 jets would not have the next-gen AIM-260 air-to-air missiles, in addition to other advanced weapons and Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Yet the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) submitted a formal position paper to Israel’s political echelon after the US-Saudi deal was announced, in which the Israeli Air Force (IAF) presented an explicit objection to the US’s sale of the F-35 jets to Saudi Arabia.
According to the document, Israel’s air superiority could be eroded if other countries in the Middle East possess the advanced stealth aircraft, a point over which Israel has expressed concern several times in the past. The timing of the deal announcement is interesting, and could be a message to Iran, the country which suffered enormous losses by the same jets operated by the IAF during the 12-Day War. It seems like a strategic flex aimed, now the Mullahs would be surrounded from two sides by F-35 fleets. Thats tough.