"10 Nigerian Navy warships have returned to base after a military exercise in the nation’swaters and the Gulf of Guinea (GoG).
The warships are Nigeria Navy Ship (NNS) Sagbama, NNS Nwamba, NNS Ibeno, NNS Dorina, NNS Gongola, NNS Ikene, NNS Badagry, NNS Oji, NNS Ose and NNS Okpoku....after the warships berthed in Onne, Rivers, the Flag Officer Commanding Central Naval Command (CNC), Rear Adm. Umar Chugali said the operation code-named ‘Exercise Sea Guardian’ was a huge success." YSV
"An airport in the southern Russian city of Makhachkala was closed after a group of people poured onto the runway, the Russian aviation authority Rosaviatsia said.
Media reports from the area said demonstrators denouncing Israel's actions in Gaza had thronged the airport." MS
"Canadian special forces members are in Israel helping Canada's embassy there with"contingency planning,"......Defense Minister Bill Blair said 300 CAF members are now in the region." CBC
"IDF struck several Hezbollah terrorist cells and infrastructure in southern Lebanon on Sunday after a number of rockets were fired toward northern Israel throughout the day.... three rockets were fired from Lebanon toward Rosh Pina and nearby areas, just east of Safed." MS
"Hamas gunmen ambushed Israeli troops from tunnels near the Gaza border after groundforces entered the strip....several Hamas terrorists had been killed and others were wounded after they launched an attack from a tunnel near Erez in the northern Gaza Strip." MS
"Aerospace Defense Command fighter craft and helicopter sprung into action when a civilian aircraft flew into restricted airspace over President Joe Biden's Delaware home.
The president is staying there this weekend as he takes time out away from Washington.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) jets shot flares to flag down the craft which may have been visible to those on the ground.
The Secret Service said the response was simply "a precaution."
In a statement, it said: "Assets were scrambled to intercept and the civilian aircraft safely landed at a nearby airport.
"There were no impacts to the protectee's movements as a result of this incident and agents from the US Secret Service are investigating in coordination with the FAA." MS
"Ground Forces of Ukraine's Armed Forces have released a video of how they destroyed acolumn of the Russians trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses in Donetsk Oblast." MS
"Russian troops fend off multiple incursions, taking down 14 drones. Astafyev elaborated thattheir Russian contingents countered three major offensives by opposing assault teams, inflicting significant personnel and equipment losses in regions such as Krasnoye, Kurdyumovka, and Kleshcheyevka. Moreover, the group neutralized 14 enemy drones near Vesyoloye and Spornoye, along with eight HIMARS MLRS projectiles." MS
"Ukraine’s youngest government minister is building an army of killer robots and hopes tofind his country’s answer to English engineer Barnes Wallis to help defeat Russia. “You know war starts with one level of technology and ends with a totally different level of technology,” he told the Sunday Telegraph from his office in Kyiv.
While Wallis helped Britain produce weapons like the bouncing bomb during the Second World War, Mr Federov isn’t pinning his hopes on the creation of a wonder weapon. The latest of his projects is the creation of an “Army of Robots” to carry out tasks that Ukrainian soldiers would often have to risk their lives to do." MS
"Over the past 24 hours, nearly about 70 combat engagements between Ukraine’s DefenseForces and Russian invaders were reported in different directions of the front line." Ukrin
"Atesh resistance movement have reported that they have discovered a missile production facility in the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia, and also provided coordinates. The number of employees at the plant has increased from 10,000 to 17,000." Pravada
"This is not the first time the Russian army has attacked the town of Myrhorod." UVNY
"Deputy Chief of Ukraine’s National Police Dmytro Tyshlek will be suspended from his duties for the duration of the criminal investigation launched at his request following a journalistic investigation..a Ukrainian investigative reporting outlet, has found that as of this summer, Tyshlek’s wife has not gotten rid of her Russian passport, and Tyshlek himself has been spotted driving cars and staying in properties belonging to a leader of a Russian criminal gang." Pravada
"The US is 'preparing' to blast enemy satellites out of space, a new painting has revealed. The futuristic intercept vehicle has historic links to the X-20 Dyna-Soar, the first U.S. space plane design, with its low-wing delta shape and vertical winglets. The bay doors of the intercept vehicle are opening as the space plane moves into position and prepares to defend the friendly satellite." MS
"China is continuing to launch trios of classified remote-sensing satellites to low Earth orbit.A Long March 2D rocket lifted off into the night sky above the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China. State media outlet China Daily described the spacecraft as remote-sensing satellites tasked with observing, surveying and measuring objects on land or at sea as well as monitoring weather. Western observers believe Yaogan satellites to be for at least partly military purposes. The wider series includes optical, radar and electronic intelligence gathering satellites." Space.com
