🇮🇱🇸🇦 “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

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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.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) stated that its F-16AM fighter jets are credited with intercepting more than 1,300 airborne threats since August 2024, in addition to over 300 ground targets, including hundreds of Russian vehicles, command posts, UAV control centers, ammunition depots, and key elements of Russian Armed Forces' (AFRF) logistics.

Image: UAF, featuring a F-16AM fighter jet loaded with 6x AIM-9L "Sidewinder" air-to-air missiles and 3 fuel tankers (4,000 L).

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🇮🇳🇦🇪 An Indian Air Force HAL “Tejas” Mark 1/1A Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) crashed earlier today during the Dubai Air Show 2025 in the UAE.

Looks like its engine failed while it was airborne.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 US Vice President JD Vance said on a post on X that any peace plan has to “Be acceptable to both Russia and Ukraine” while also “Maximze the chances the war doesnt restart.” He also said that “There is a fantasy” that if the US gives more aid and support to Ukraine, “victory is at hand.”

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian operators from Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) along with local resistance forces conducted a joint operation in Kalynove in Luhansk region east of Ukraine, remotely detonating a bomb, killing at least four Russian Armed Forces (AFRF) troops and destroying a UAZ-469/UAZ-3151 4x4 vehicle in addition to a buggy.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Footage released by Ukraine's Defense Intelligence (HUR) unit show drones operated by the "Ghosts" special unit carried out drone strikes against multiple targets belong to the Russian Armed Forces (AFRF) in occupied Crimea, south of Ukraine, hitting a Lira-A10 S-band Terminal Area Radar Complex (TARC) [00:00], a 55Zh6U "Nebo-U" radar used in Russia's long-range detection system [00:05], a "Nebo-SV" radar housed in a dome shelter [00:14], a P-18 "Terek" radar [00:18], and a Ka-27 naval multi-purpose helicopter [00:33] in unidentified airfield. Also, at [00:24], you can see one of the HUR drones evading a Pantsir-S1 air-defense system missile over sea.

🇮🇶 Iraqi Air Force (IQAF) conducted a precise airstrike in Kirkuk targeting a gathering of five Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists in Kirkuk, north of the country, with the help of the French, utilizing the Cessna 208B “Grand Cravan” aircraft to launch the AGM-114 “Hellfire” missile, and prior to that it was used to gather intelligence.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Overnight, Ukrainian drone operators, utlizing about five FP-2 combat drones, struck the Shatura Thermal Power Plant (STPP), approximately 120 kilometers east of the Russian capital, in the outskirts of Moscow Oblast, igniting oil-filled transformers.

Its a very old plant, and generates power by utilizing two 210 MW units, three 200 MW units, and one 80 MW unit. Per Ukrainian OSINT researchers, the strikes hit the 80 MW unit in addition to other 210-200 MW units, causing a loss of 900 MWs.

🇪🇺🇺🇸 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen shows objection to US draft plan in a video statement on X, stating that Ukraine's borders cannot be changed by force, its army cannot be reduced leaving it vulnerable to an attack, and the European Union (EU) must have a central role in a peace deal for Ukraine, as top officials from the US, Ukraine, and national security advisers from France, Britain and Germany hold talks in Geneva to discuss Washington's draft plan to end the war in Ukraine.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US is considering the possibility of transferring BGM-109 “Tomahawk” Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) to Ukraine as a security guarantee after reaching a peace agreement to increase deterrence measures after the conflict, as an alternative to the deployment of military troops of European countries on Ukrainian territory, which Russia opposes.

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🇬🇧 UK Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier of the UK Carrier Strike Group (UK-CSG) seen from air embarking 24x F-35B Lighting II fighter jets, the largest number of fifth-gen jets ever embarked on a UK carrier, while it was operating in the Mediterranean Sea as part of NATO’s “NEPTUNE STRIKE 2025”, led by Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO).

🔗 COMUKCSG

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Special forces of the "Alpha" unit of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) carried out a series of drone strikes on Russian positions in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, hitting a tower of an industrial facility that was used to monitor Ukrainian forces, along with warehouses containing Zala Lancet UAVs and Gerbera UAVs somewhere in Donetsk too. SBU reports it used FP-2 drones with combat charges weighing 105 kg during the attacks.