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23.04.26 - 03:51
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U.S. Deploys Ukrainian Acoustic Sensors, Interceptor Drones At Prince Sultan Air Base (ZeroHedge)
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U.S. Deploys Ukrainian Acoustic Sensors, Interceptor Drones At Prince Sultan Air Base
Last month's Iranian drone strike on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia appears to have inflicted a costly toll on U.S. forces in the region. The attack destroyed a U.S. Air Force E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft and damaged multiple KC-135 refueling tankers, highlighting a major gap in U.S. air defenses against cheap attack drones.
Nearly a month after the drone strike on Prince Sultan Air Base, and following multiple reports that Ukrainian drone forces had been shifted into the region, Reuters confirmed Wednesday morning that the U.S. has deployed Ukrainian counter-drone technology to defend against Iranian-developed Shahed drones.
At the center of this new security effort to fortify the airspace above Prince Sultan Air Base against low-cost Iranian one-way attack drones is Sky Map, a Ukrainian command-and-control platform used to detect incoming drones. The coordinated response ...
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23.04.26 - 03:51
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US Blocks Regular $500 Million Cash Pallets Flown To Iraq, Over Pro-Iran Militias (ZeroHedge)
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US Blocks Regular $500 Million Cash Pallets Flown To Iraq, Over Pro-Iran Militias
In confirmation of some early reporting we featured at the start of this week, The Wall Street Journal has verified something that Iraqi officials themselves were denying just days ago: the US is blocking Iraq's regular dollar shipments in order to pressure it's Iran-backed militias.
"The Trump administration has suspended U.S. dollar shipments to Iraq and frozen security cooperation programs with its military, escalating the pressure on Baghdad to dismantle powerful Iranian-backed militias," said Iraqi and US officials interviewed in the report.
Pallets of cash and the Middle East should ring familiar, stretching from the Bush-Cheney years to even the Obama years (and Iran sanctions relief as part of the original nuclear deal). In this case, like with the Obama/Iran deal saga before, this is actually Iraq's own oil revenue money.
Memory lane via CNBC: The New York Federal Reserve shipped billions ...
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23.04.26 - 03:48
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Japanese Market Notably Higher (AFX)
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TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - The Japanese market is notably higher on Thursday, extending the gains in the previous three sessions, following the broadly positive cues from Wall Street overnight. The Nikkei ......
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23.04.26 - 03:30
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Win Streak May Continue For China Stock Market (AFX)
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BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - The China stock market has moved higher in three straight sessions, collecting more than 55 points or 1.3 percent along the way. The Shanghai Composite Index now sits just abov......
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