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Russian intelligence chief warns west may use ISIS proxies against Iran —— Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) chief Aleksandr Bortnikov warned on 26 May that western intelligence agencies are allegedly transferring former ISIS militants and members of other armed groups from detention centers in Syria to specialized camps in Iraq as part of plans to reorganize them into a proxy force targeting Iran and destabilizing CIS member states. Speaking during a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) meeting, Bortnikov said the militants include citizens of CIS countries who had previously fought for ISIS and other armed groups before being imprisoned in Syria. “According to obtained information, western intelligence agencies continue efforts to use terrorists from Syria as proxy forces in a war against Iran,” he said. Bortnikov added that the operation mirrors the original emergence of ISIS from Iraqi prison systems allegedly overseen by western intelligence agencies during the US occupation of Iraq. He warned that, beyond targeting Iran, the plan also aims to destabilize CIS countries and risks dragging more actors into the conflict, threatening to destabilize “the entire Islamic world.” The comments come amid tense indirect negotiations between Washington and Tehran in Doha, while both sides continue maintaining naval pressure and restrictions around the Strait of Hormuz.

Tensions have emerged between SpaceX and the Pentagon over Starlink pricing during U.S. military operations involving Iran, including the use of satellite connectivity for drone systems, Reuters reports. SpaceX executives argued the military has been paying below-market rates for terminal access, while also seeking higher payments for expanded service tiers. The report also says disputes have extended to broader Starlink military and communications services, including direct-to-cell connectivity efforts and the use of the Starshield defense network.

@TheMilObserverr All it takes is a Pakistani JF-17 with Chinese missile to beat the sh.t out of it

India just reshuffled its most powerful air defence system without firing a single shot. 🇮🇳 IAF has reallocated its S-400 squadrons. 65% now facing Pakistan, 35% covering the China border. And the timing tells you everything. 👇 • India procured 5 S-400 squadrons in a $5.4 billion deal signed in 2018 • 4th squadron arriving by mid-May 2026, 5th later this year • 3 squadrons now covering Punjab, Rajasthan and Gujarat • S-400 range of 400 km covers entire Pakistani airspace from border positions • 35% allocation maintains LAC coverage with China • One system positioned near Siliguri Corridor for eastern protection • Fully integrated into India's Sudarshan Chakra air defence grid The S-400 is India's highest layer in a multi-tier air defence shield. Pointing 65% of it west is not just deployment.

If you were to take FlyJinnah’s new Lahore-Islamabad route, you would notice a few things: 1) The rates are pretty cheap at Rs 10,000 per flight. 2) The plane you board has the livery of AirArabia instead of FlyJinnah. 3) Most of the seats are empty. Over the course of the past 10 days, Profit monitored the two flights a day FlyJinnah has been operating between Lahore and Islamabad. We did this by having passengers on the plane who could tell us how full the flight was, by speaking with representatives from the airline’s booking office as early as an hour before the flights were due to take off, and by stationing reporters at the airports to speak to the airline’s booking staff, and passengers emerging from the airport. The flight with the lowest confirmed capacity was operating with only 40% of the seats filled. Some estimates were even lower. At midnight every single day before the early morning flights, FlyJinnah’s booking staff confirmed that there were at least “50+” seats available. But if the route is not filling seats, why is FlyJinnah operating it? The answer can be found in the unique nature of the Lahore-Islamabad route, the current state of international air travel, and the simple concept that consumers should, at the very least, be given a choice between road and air travel wherever it makes sense. The question is whether or not the flight will eventually catch on or not. profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/05/25/fly…

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🚨🚨🇷🇺 Putin signed a law allowing him to deploy the military to foreign countries to aid Russian citizens who’ve been detained or face prosecution, paving the way for Russian invasion on European countries detaining Russians on sanctions-related violations, and Baltic nations bordering Russia.

🚨🇷🇺WEST IN RAGE: Russia's 3D printing Breakthrough Goes Global Rosatom (Russia's state nuclear corporation) shipped an industrial 3D printer to India — its first export to a far-abroad market. The RusBeam 2800, an electron-beam printer for large metal parts, now produces aerospace components. Russian additive manufacturing is outgrowing import substitution and starting to compete globally. Rostec (Russia's state industrial conglomerate) and Rosatom created the country's first certified reference sample of metal powder — titanium alloy PT-3V. Labs can now calibrate powder characteristics against a single standard: fewer defects, faster certification, a common quality language. It's no coincidence that Rosatom and Rostec lead this push. Nuclear reactors and jet engines demand absolute precision — exactly why the PT-3V reference sample matters. It gives every lab a single benchmark to check powders against, ensuring the hundredth printed part matches the first. Without it, 3D printing stays guesswork. With it, the technology becomes a trusted industrial process. Russian aviation has crossed that threshold: Rostec uses 3D-printed parts in PD-14 and PD-8 engines and has certified the first additively manufactured hot-section component for a serial aircraft engine — a combustor swirler inside the PD-14 powering the MC-21. These announcements are two sides of the same coin. Russia is assembling a complete chain: equipment, materials, software, standards, certification. After 2022, severed supply chains turned 3D printing from a trend into industrial survival. When a critical imported part is unavailable, printing it domestically shifts from convenience to necessity. The market hit 22.3 billion rubles in 2025. Hot-section parts face extreme temperatures and vibration, so certification means the technology has passed its toughest exam. Russia has moved beyond printing samples to building a full-fledged industry — from certified powder to exported machines for the most demanding sectors. Do you think the U.S. can really compete with Russia in this field?

TRUMP JUST PUBLISHED THE EXACT LIST OF COUNTRIES THAT MUST SIGN THE ABRAHAM ACCORDS OR THERE IS NO IRAN DEAL Not a suggestion. Not a request. MANDATORY. Simultaneous. His exact word. Here is the list: 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → no diplomatic relations with Israel → now told signing is non-negotiable 🇶🇦 Qatar → hosts Hamas political bureau → now told to normalize with Israel as part of the Iran package 🇵🇰 Pakistan → nuclear-armed, 230 million Muslims, never recognized Israel → leaders reportedly SURPRISED on the call 🇹🇷 Turkey → NATO member, Erdogan called Israel's Gaza operations war crimes → now on the mandatory list 🇪🇬 Egypt → existing peace treaty with Israel since 1979 → full Abraham Accords normalization is a different ask 🇯🇴 Jordan → peace treaty since 1994 → full normalization still a new demand 🇧🇭 Bahrain → already signed in 2020 → now being used as the template everyone else must follow 🇦🇪 UAE → original signatory → now expected to pull the others across the line 💀 8 countries on one call 💀 7 of them have no full normalization with Israel 💀 ZERO were told this was coming — leaders described as surprised 💀 100% of this is being framed as repayment for U.S. efforts Trump's own words on Truth Social, May 25, 2026: "after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords." Every country on this list has a domestic political cost for signing. Not a small one. An enormous one. Trump's 48-hour ultimatum is still forming. These are the countries at the table right now. Follow and turn on notifications before it's too late.

Malezya basını | DSA: ▪️Bağımsız kaynaklarca doğrulandığı takdirde, Rafale uçağının AKINCI'dan ateşlenen füzeyle düşürüldüğü senaryosu Sudan'ın çok ötesine uzanan derin sonuçlar doğuracaktır. ▪️Dassault Rafale savaş uçağı, üst düzey çok amaçlı muharebe kabiliyeti arayan ülkeler arasında savunma planlamasının odağında yer almayı sürdürüyor. ▪️Rafale uçaklarını satın alan ülkeler sadece savaş uçaklarına değil, aynı zamanda beka kabiliyeti ve caydırıcılığa ilişkin varsayımlara da yatırım yaparlar. ▪️120 milyon dolar değerindeki uçağın 35 kilogramlık ROKETSAN EREN'le düşürülmesi, Rafale kullanıcıları açısından durumu karmaşık hale getirecektir. ▪️Ortaya çıkan stratejik etki, Afrika'nın çok ötesine uzanan küresel kuvvet geliştirme önceliklerini yeniden şekillendirebilir. ▪️BAYKAR-ROKETSAN ekosistemi, hava savaşlarının geleceği stratejisi tartışmalarında giderek daha merkezî bir rol oynuyor. ▪️Sudan'ın geniş coğrafyası, gelecekteki hava savaşı konseptlerinin daha büyük devletlerarası çatışmalarda ortaya çıkmadan önce test edildiği, daha geniş jeopolitik rekabetin sıkıştırılmış bir versiyonuna giderek daha çok benziyor.

Book Excerpts | Kahuta: The Indo-Israeli Plan to Attack Pakistan’s Nuclear Plant Israel had attempted to destroy the Kahuta plant as it had successfully destroyed the Iraqi nuclear plant in Osirak. It needed Indian help in undertaking this mission. Pakistani intelligence (ISI) had intercepted the communication of the Indo-Israeli joint plan of attacking Pakistan’s Kahuta facility and took appropriate security measures. Pakistan had sent strong messages to Tel Aviv and New Delhi that if Kahuta is attacked by anyone they would lay nuclear waste on Tel Aviv and New Delhi. Pakistan’s defences were put on a full alert and the Pakistani air force was put on high alert for any incursions. It is said that the PAF Chief of Air Staff had asked the Pakistani F-16 squadron if any pilot was willing to volunteer to fly a one way mission to Tel Aviv (Pakistan couldn't have flown a sortie to Israel as it lacked air-to-air-refuelling at the time), the whole PAF F-16 squadron raised their hands to volunteer. Air Marshal M. Anwar Shamim (PAF Air Chief during that time), narrated “that while talk of the India-Israel nexus was still in the air, he requested Foreign Minister Sahibzada Yaqub Ali Khan to declare at an appropriate time Pakistan’s intention of retaliating if any action was taken against the country’s nuclear assets”. In addition, in 1983 Dr Raja Ramanna, the then director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, was warned by the then Chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Munir Ahmed Khan in Vienna in the autumn of 1983 that Islamabad would attack Trombay (Indian nuclear plant) if its facilities in Kahuta were hit. Furthermore, it is claimed that US intelligence satellites had detected two Jaguar squadrons missing from Indian Ambala airbase in Indian Punjab and moved to another location close to the Kahuta facility near Islamabad. The information was also proved to Pakistan, reducing the element of surprise from a joint Indo-Israeli attack. The joint Indo-Israeli collusion was said to be planned since the early 1980s. It was alleged that a full-scale mock-up of Kahuta facility was built in the Negev desert by Israel. This was done via the use satellite pictures and intelligence. Israeli pilots in their F-16/F-15 combat aircraft had practised mock attacks. However, this mission was aborted once Israel realised that the Pakistani ground defences and air defence fighters were on constant combat air patrols throughout Pakistan. (Saghir Iqbal, Kahuta: The Indo-Israeli Plan to Attack Pakistan’s Nuclear Plant)

China's new Z-10B recently broke cover, and if rumors are correct, it’s already on PLA’s active roster. The new helicopter borrows heavily from the Z-10ME export variant built for Pakistan, packing a mast-mounted radar, satcoms, and a beefy EW suite. Visually, the only real way to tell the Z-10B apart from the Z-10ME is the tail. The domestic version drops the complex scissor-type setup for a simplified, conventional tail rotor design. Anyway, here is a quick visual overview of the new bird. What do you think of it, #avgeeks?

In 2019, Hong Kong protesters tore down surveillance lampposts with their bare hands because they feared facial recognition was coming. They were right. It is coming. And this time nobody is allowed to protest. Hong Kong police have deployed automated drones that launch from rooftop docking stations multiple times per day, equipped with powerful telephoto lenses capable of filming inside vehicles from hundreds of meters away. Since the pilot scheme launched in May 2025, drones have been used to arrest people for visa overstays, illegal gambling, and jaywalking. The police chief's stated goal: replicate mainland China's surveillance coverage, where cameras exist "every two steps." Hong Kong police purchased 700 drones last year for HK$25 million. Another 56 are being purchased in 2026-27. By 2028, 60,000 surveillance cameras will be installed across the city, with facial recognition technology being connected to the network as soon as this year. When demonstrators tore down Hong Kong's experimental smart lampposts in 2019, the government denied any plans for facial recognition and promised to disable or reduce camera resolution to calm public concern. Police chief Joe Chow's February 2026 interview confirmed exactly what protesters feared: facial recognition is now being added to the toolkit. His explanation for why this is now acceptable: "Times have changed." An expert who studied drone surveillance in Hong Kong told the Hong Kong Free Press that once the legal framework exists, surveillance technology becomes "malleable." If a government can make a legal argument to use it against one category of person, the capability is in place for any purpose, "when the government wants to change those terms." The 2019 protesters understood this. They were called rioters. Their concerns were dismissed. The National Security Law passed in 2020. Independent courts, free press, and political opposition followed. Drone patrols followed after that. Sixty thousand cameras and facial recognition come next. #HongKong #CCP #China #Surveillance #Privacy #NSL #Drones #FacialRecognition #Freedom #Geopolitics

BREAKING!! MILEI CONTINUES TO DISMANTLE ARGENTINA SOVEREIGNTY Argentina hands control of the South Atlantic to the U.S. Southern Command through 2030 under Milei's "Protecting Global Commons Program." Admiral Juan Carlos Romay signed a Letter of Intent with U.S. Rear Admiral Carlos Sardiello granting the Pentagon operational control and oversight of Argentine territorial waters through a five-year plan (2026-2030). Argentina will receive: • Textron B-360ER aircraft (ISR platforms: Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) • Drones configured to Pentagon standards • Technology integrated with U.S. Southern Command systems Argentina is not acquiring patrol aircraft for sovereign control, it's becoming an intel collection site for the Pentagon. But there's a catch, while Milei accepts U.S. military "aid," he's imposing a $46 billion budget cut on Argentina's Armed Forces and leaving bases without electricity, gas, or food for troops. His model is to starve the national military, create dependency, accept U.S. tutelage. The South Atlantic, including waters near the Malvinas (Falklands), is no longer defined as Argentine sovereign territory but as a "global commons" under U.S.-Argentine joint control. Argentina provides the personnel and bears the risk. The United States sets the strategic direction and controls the intelligence.

🇵🇰 The Balochistan Liberation Army just claimed the Quetta train bombing in Pakistan. Their "fidayee" suicide unit, meaning self-sacrificing, carried out the attack, targeting what the BLA called "occupying forces" travelling from Quetta Military Cantonment. The BLA is a separatist militant group fighting for an independent Balochistan, designated as a terrorist organization by Pakistan, the U.S. and the UK. They have carried out some of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's history, targeting security forces, Chinese nationals on CPEC projects and civilian infrastructure across the province. Pakistan has been fighting this war way longer than most people have been paying attention to it.

حدثت سابقة أخرى في تاريخ الطيران العالمي. ▪️ضربت المسيرة التركية أقنجي في السودان، طائرة حربية مأهولة مزودة بمحركين باستخدام صاروخ EREN المصنوع من قبل شركة روكيتسان المحلية. المصدر: TR HABER

🔺BIG BREAKING: A Sudanese Akinci UCAV shot down a Rafale, most likely a UAE's Rafale. Last year, Pakistan also shot down 4 Indian Rafales.