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Defence Today is an online publication covering global defence and security. Military platforms and systems. C4ISR and cyber security. Strategic intelligence and emerging threats. Published in Ayrshire, Scotland. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 20/09/2026

C-17A Globemaster III, callsign REACH 252, of the 145th Airlift Wing of the North Carolina Air National Guard, landing at Prestwick Airport, flying in from the Middle East on 19 September.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 16/09/2026

Royal Air Force KC2 Voyager ZZ343, callsign Tartan 39, coming in to land at Prestwick Airport earlier today after air-to-air refuelling circuits over the North Sea.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 27/06/2025

US Marines with Fox Company, 2d Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment provide security in a JLTV during an amphibious landing rehearsal for Atlantic Alliance 2025 at Onslow Beach, on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 26 June 2025. Photo: Cpl. Alexander Lesko / US Marine Corps.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 21/06/2025

The US Air Force has begun to forward deploy B-2 Spirit stealth bombers out from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. The aircraft are being supported by KC-135 Stratotanker and KC-46 Pegasus refuelling aircraft, and electronic warfare aircraft. Image: Joshua Hastings / US Air Force.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 15/12/2024

On 15 December 2005, the F-22 entered service with the US Air Force. Developed under the USAF's Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) programme it was primarily intended as an air superiority fighter while also integrating capabilities for ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals intelligence.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 09/12/2024

Yonhap news agency has reported that the political turmoil in South Korea following the declaration of martial law has cast uncertainty over the prospects of finalizing a deal for exporting South Korean-made K2 main battle tanks to Poland within the year. Photo: Hyundai Rotem.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 07/12/2024

FLASH: As the Assad regime collapses amid the rebel advance on Homs and Damascus there are signs that an evacuation of Russian military equipment and personnel is currently underway at Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Reports that multiple airlift aircraft have arrived at the base in the last few hours.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 06/12/2024

FLASH: Israel mulls creation of a buffer zone in southern Syria as anti-Assad forces begin an offensive to seize the city of Homs. Jordan and Lebanon have now closed all border crossings with Syria. All indications are that the regime of Bashar al-Assad is nearing its end.

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Defence Today @defencetoday.com · 05/12/2024

FLASH: Israeli military intelligence is seeing a faster-than-expected collapse of Syrian government forces and is preparing for the possibility of the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime following the fall of the city of Hama earlier today.

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