🇷🇺BALTIC FLEET - BALTIYSK🇷🇺
0.5m from 11 April 2024. What a difference 2 days makes (and the live fire exercises in the Baltic)!

Vessels left in port⬇️
1x Sovremenny Class
1x Karakurt Class
1x Pr. 21631 Buyan-M
2x Improved KILO Class

Interesting:

#NavalNews #SubThursday #Submarines
Vietnam People's Navy Project 06361/Improved Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarines Hải Phòng (HQ-184) & Khánh Hoà (HQ-185) loading practice naval mines.
Photo by vietnamnet.vn via Collin Koh 🇸🇬🇺🇦 aka "SG Government Consultant"

#NavalNews #Submarines
Russian Navy Pacific Fleet's Project 1855 Priz-class deep-submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) AS-30 completed its first dive off Kamchatka after returning from scheduled repairs.

Project 1855 Priz-class DSRV technical data:
Hull length: 13.5 m
Width: 3.8 m…

More photos from the 🇳🇴🇸🇪coop EOD exercise at Nordic Response 24 where allies train together to defend #NATO 's Northern flank. #WeAreNATO 📸Norwegian Armed Forces | Forsvaret Försvarsmakten

Israel weather for the next 4 days:
- periodic clouds thru the overnights
- scattered showers early Thurs
- clearing during the days
- highs in the low 70s (°F)
- lows in the high 50s / low 60s

Iran weather for the next 4 days:
- heavy rain overnight
- turning to partly…

Let Ukraine use Western weapons on military targets in Russia.

My latest for The Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/202…

The US and Norway will build a (temporary?) ground station for the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture satellite network program at Andøya Air Base.

'The station at Andøya will provide early warning on cruise missiles in the High North'

regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/usa…

🔺Arctic Air activity

Two Russian Navy NFAF PROB Tu-142 MPA took off during the 1000Z hour, 10 April 2024 & remained airborne during the 1600Z hour.

Aircraft highly likely operating in the SBAR in support of ASWEX activity possibly with 2 x Grisha V MPKs. The Barents Observer

🇺🇦 Kyiv has the right to strike military targets outside Ukraine, said NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

Earlier, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Ukraine against striking Russian oil refineries, citing potential global energy repercussions.

Izvestia confirms that Russia has formed the 49th Air Assault Brigade as part of the 58th Combined Arms Army, which will be equipped with BMP-3. Air Assault Brigades were previously subordinated to the Ground Forces before all were transferred to the VDV.
iz.ru/1678690/alekse…

This quote is quite something coming from a US official, going against the US position on legal targets, war supporting and war sustaining industries.

And yes, the US position is that powerplants 'usually qualify as military objectives' too.

From the DoD Law of War Manual.

#NavalNews Norwegian Armed Forces | Forsvaret Försvarsmakten #WeAreNATO
Swedish and Norwegian naval EOD divers during the exercise Nordic Response 2024 where allies train together to defend #NATO 's Northern flank. All photos by Minedykker/Forsvaret.

Baltic Fleet activity

Imagery of 9 April shows a UI Pr.21631 class MRK conducting weapons transloading activity probably ahead of missile firing this week. It is unlikely to be the reportedly badly damaged “Serpukhov”

Great find & H/t MT Anderson

I can see where the administration's concerns are coming from but I think they are wrong and this position makes the US look bad too, considering the current state of the war.

If you want a change in targets, as an example, give Ukraine proper tools to go after air bases.

Important bilateral meetings in Pentagon yesterday, reflecting on deepening the longstanding bilateral defense ties between the United States and Norway, and exchanging views on the security environment in Europe, the North Atlantic and Nordic integration into NATO. Thank you!

🇷🇺BLACK SEA FLEET🇷🇺
0.5m📷 (6 April 2024) of Novorossiysk, Feodosia & Sevastopol.

Good view of where 🇷🇺Navy are positioning their vessels⬇️

Novorossiysk: primary warships, subs & assault ships

Sevastopol: small missiles boats, AS ships, Minesweepers

Feodosia: nothing

Thord Are Iversen Gunny Tim L-G🇺🇦 Delta2Juliet Sam ⋆.•.*🍃🌿🌾⋆.•.* Evergreen Intel Intelschizo Radio & Nukes 🇺🇦 monitor Ukraine Control Map GeoConfirmed Saturnax 🇸🇰🇪🇺🇺🇦 H I Sutton Granger D. mojavensis 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 Tatarigami_UA charly015 Tom Bike Ian Ellis

Idag träffar Tobias Billström sina nordisk-baltiska kollegor på Gotland. Fokus är på aktuella utrikes- och säkerhetspolitiska frågor i närområdet, inte minst fortsatt stöd till 🇺🇦. Det nordisk-baltiska samarbetet är viktigare än någonsin i en tid av geopolitiska utmaningar.

#NB8

They finally did the based thing.