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Vladimir Putin took a 30-minute ride in a modernized Tu-160M supersonic bomber as part of the crew yesterday. Russian President Vladimir Putin flew in a Tu-160M strategic bomber on Feb. 22, 2024. A 30-minute sortie [...]

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New wave of mass arrests in Belarus of opposition activists and their family members
Increased number of executions in Iran, in particular the case of Mohammad Ghobadlou
Recent attacks on Christmas Eve in Plateau State in Nigeria
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The next ordinary meeting of the Subcommittee on Human Rights will take place on Tuesday 19 March from 09.00 - 12.30 and 14.30 - 18.30 in meeting room Spinelli 3G2.

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Security specialists at the British embassy in Kyiv have recently been busy promoting secure data link solutions for first-person view

China is making unprecedented efforts to increase its industrial-use bottled gas stocks ahead of the 2024-2025 winter. That gas is

Hanoi is experiencing a minor diplomatic headache in its bid to win the support of Western countries for the recognition

For more than a century, a brick rowhouse at 1806 I Street NW in downtown Washington was home to the Alibi Club,

After France and Azerbaijan's tit-for-tat expulsions of each other's diplomats in late December (IO, 11/01/24), the French intelligence services have

After the high-profile arrest of a Russian intelligence-linked FBI source who attempted to interfere in the upcoming US presidential election,

NATO's new spymaster Scott W. Bray quietly took up his job as assistant secretary general for intelligence and security in

Over the past decade, Turkey’s defence industry has undergone rapid development and its products have repeatedly proved their military capability. The Bayraktar-TB2 drone – a product of the Turkish manufacturer Baykar – is exported to numerous coun­tries. In Ukraine, it is being used extensively against the Russian army. In Nagorno-Karabakh, it turned out to be a game changer in favour of Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia. And it has left its mark on the battlefields of Syria as well as in northern Iraq and Libya. But the TB2 drone is only the most visible sign of what is a new era for Turkey’s defence policy. The innovation ecosystem that has emerged in the Turkish military-industrial complex is intended to position the country as a “tekno-nation”. For Turkey’s NATO partners, this recalibration presents strategic challenges for fur­ther cooperation with Ankara.

La guerre fait de nouveau rage au nord Kivu, région de l’est de la RDC (République démocratique du Congo). Goma, la capitale régionale est actuellement encerclée par le M23, un mouvement rebelle tutsi, bras armé du Rwanda. Or, en décembre 2023, réélu à la tête de la RDC sur la promesse de reconquérir le Kivu, le 20 décembre, Félix Tshisekedi  a menacé de  déclarer la guerre au Rwanda.
La guerre du Kivu est la conséquence de celle dé 1990 quand, sous les ordres de Paul Kagamé, les Tutsi réfugiés en Ouganda envahirent le Rwanda alors dirigé par le Hutu Juvénal Habyarimana. Le 6 avril 1994, l’assassinat de ce dernier provoqua un atroce génocide suivi par la victoire militaire du général Kagamé (Voir à ce sujet mon livre Rwanda, un génocide en questions.
Puis, en 1996, éclata la guerre du Congo.  Décidée par les Etats-Unis et par la Grande-Bretagne afin de renverser le maréchal Mobutu allié de la France, elle fut menée par l’armée rwandaise du général Kagamé. Paris laissa faire, épisode peu glorieux qui fit perdre son prestige à la France et qui marqua  le début du recul de son influence en Afrique.
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The AB-212 (HH-212) Twin Huey helicopter made its last flight today ending a 40-year career in the Italian Air Force. The last HH-212 (as the AB-212 is designated in accordance with the Italian MOD Mission [...]

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The weapons will equip the Italian F-35 fleet, with the AIM-120C-8 possibly being a temporary solution until the Meteor BVRAAM is integrated on the 5th gen aircraft. After the U.S. Department of Defense published in [...]

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Erre a hónapra két olyan bejegyzést terveztem, amelynek tartalmát a régi albumokból válogatott képek adják. Az előző, nagygépes téma után következzen egy kisgépes érdekesség. 2001 végén egy olyan légcsavaros típus jelent meg Magyarországon, amely korábban nem repült hazai lajstromban: a Scottish Aviation alsószárnyas, műrepülhető gépe, a Bulldog. A gépet a brit Beagle Aircraft tervezte, de a cég, amely kutyafajtákról nevezte el típusait, 1969-ben megszűnt és már azelőtt átadta a jogokat a skót Scottish Aviation-nek, hogy egyetlen gépet is legyártott volna. Az első 58 Bulldog Sk 61 jelzéssel a svéd légierőhöz, további 20 a hadsereghez került, végül mindegyik a Flygvapnet kiképzőgépeként üzemelt 2001-es kivonásáig.

Az első üzemeltető tehát a svéd légierő lett, de 130 darabos Bulldog-flottájával a legnagyobb a brit Royal Air Force volt, amely az orrfutós, egymás melletti üléses gépet a farokkerekes, egymás mögötti üléselrendezésű, a Zlin Trener családhoz hasonló Chipmunk leváltására szánta. A Bulldog T.Mk1 jelzéssel 1975-ben állt szolgálatba a RAF kiképzőszázadainál és az egyetemi repülőszázadoknál. 2001-es kivonása után a svéd gépekhez hasonlóan eladásra kínálták a kisgépes piacon. Az első magyar Bulldog is ezek közül került ki. (Saját fotóm erről a gépről sajnos nincs, a képeket ezúton is köszönöm Horváth Balázsnak, az avia-info.hu szerkesztőjének.)

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The French defence electronic communications commission (CCED) is working with over-the-top (OTT) media service operators to find a way to unlock those services from the stalemate the national legal interceptions platform, the PNIJ, finds itself in. As Intelligence Online previously reported

The open source intelligence (OSINT) world was very much present at the ISS World intelligence business trade fair, which took

Washington - Global GEOINT musical chairsWilliam McCombe, the former chief financial officer (CFO) of Earth observation specialist Maxar, is leaving

While several sources have told Intelligence Online that Bulgarian company Insa Oil recently received a €100m loan from the International