Princess Leonor has completed three years of military training as the future Queen of Spain.
Since 2023, she has trained with all three branches of the Spanish Armed Forces.
Her program included the Army, the Navy, and the Air and Space Force, where she learned military leadership, navigation, flight operations, and completed a parachute course.
She also spent months at sea aboard the training ship Juan Sebastián de Elcano before finishing her final year at the General Air and Space Academy.
At her graduation ceremony, King Felipe VI awarded her the Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit, marking the end of a path he once completed himself.
Leonor is expected to begin studying Political Science at university while continuing her official royal duties.
Few future monarchs complete this level of military preparation before taking on their constitutional role.
Whether viewed as tradition, preparation, or symbolism, it marks another step toward the day Spain has a new queen.
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BREAKING: Israeli PM Netanyahu and US President Trump agreed to "continue coordination" during a phone call discussing developments in the Gulf, Netanyahu's office says, reports Reuters.
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From the IISS Archive | The IISS estimates that within the next decade, Europe’s defence industry would find it difficult to replace many US capabilities, specifically in the air and maritime domain.
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@onlmaps Isa, Yesus, Jesus is a Big Prophet and mesengger of God in Indonesia, so please don't make a joke of him and be respected, I am a moslem respect him very much as well.
@AJEnglish Well, remember that the US spent hundreds of million dolar a day for their trops around Hormuz Straits, this make Trump like sitting on the hot stove.
US President Donald Trump has claimed that American negotiators will hold talks with Iran in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Tuesday after days of tit-for-tat attacks, but Tehran has denied any planned meeting with the United States aje.news/2akhn8
❗️Norwegian F-35 fighters intercepted a group consisting of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers and two MiG-31BM interceptors, which were conducting patrols over the Norwegian and Barents Seas with the support of an Il-78M tanker aircraft.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s describes the framework agreement with Lebanon as a “historic accomplishment”.
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US Weighs $700M+ Engine Package for Türkiye's KAAN Fighter.
The United States is reportedly considering a defense package worth more than $700 million that could provide General Electric engines for Türkiye's indigenous KAAN fifth-generation fighter jet program.
The potential deal would mark a significant step for the KAAN project as Ankara seeks to accelerate development and production of its next-generation combat aircraft.
🚨🇱🇧 Israel DEFEATED at Ali Taher Hill for 8th night in a ROW!
The IDF has suffered MULTIPLE deaths, over 100 injuries, and 10+ destroyed tanks attempting to capture Ali Taher.
Israel STILL has not been able to recover the bodies, now ASKING for permission to retrieve them.
@AJEnglish Realisticly difficult, if Israel want to shape Greater Israel, this mean have to conquer the middle east, we knew the Israel can stand untill today because of help from Europe and US, without unlimited help from them Israel has been wipeout to the sea, so just make peace.
@TheStudyofWar The US tired to continue the war with Iran, beside the US cost almost 1 bilion dolar everyday and until when this could last, like or not, the Iran government still strong, IRGC still control the Strait of Hormuz, most of Iran people still love their country, Iran is the winer.
NEW: Iranian statements regarding the contents of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MoU) indicate that some terms of the agreement are at odds with stated US positions on the Strait of Hormuz in recent months. The agreement has two parts: a first stage that deals with an “end to the war” on all fronts, a resumption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and economic benefits for Iran, including reconstruction funds, sanctions relief, release of frozen funds, and an end to the US blockade. The second stage would deal with the nuclear issue and “one or two other [unspecified] issues.”
Other Key Takeaways:
Iran is likely attempting to structure the MoU and the phasing of a final agreement to reduce US leverage before later negotiations over the nuclear program. Iran is attempting to access at least some of its frozen assets early in the MoU process, for example, which would give it some economic relief before nuclear talks begin.
Iranian media appears to be portraying a possible MoU as a tactical pause in the war rather than a final settlement. The Ghalibaf-affiliated Khorasan outlet argued on June 13 that the emerging agreement only aims to end the current war and does not resolve the underlying issues between Iran and the United States.
Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi’s readout of the MoU is largely consistent with IRGC-affiliated media’s readout of the latest possible agreement, which may indicate a growing consensus among Iranian regime leaders on Iran’s red lines for negotiations. That Araghchi’s June 12 readout and IRGC media’s account of the latest US-Iran MoU are very similar suggests that Vahidi or elements close to him may have successfully driven consensus on their preferred policy outcomes.
@UN_News_Centre@antonioguterres Well, lets see, for muslims, die as a syuhada is hapiness, we are not afraid of death, we will fight for Palestine for how long?, 10, 100, or 1000 years, time is not importants for us, but the result has been known, Palestine will be freed.
UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres urges the Security Council to "put its full weight behind the two-State solution – the only key to a just and lasting peace in the region."
"There is no alternative. And there is no time to waste."
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that freedom of navigation sanctions would be applied on Iran for the first time, as she warned against renewed escalation in the region.
“It will be the first time where the freedom of navigation sanctions will be applied on Iran,” Kallas said ahead of an informal meeting of EU defense ministers.
She said the region did not need escalation and that the parties should sit down for negotiations.
Kallas said ministers would also discuss what more could be done through the EU’s Operation ASPIDES in the region.
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Burkina Faso 🇧🇫 has officially launched a new agro-processing plant in the village of Mê, marking a big boost for local agriculture and industrial development.
Spread across 7.2 hectares, the modern facility is equipped with advanced machinery to process both mangoes and cashew nuts locally.
-It has an Annual capacity of 10,000 tons of cashew nuts
- 400 tons of dried mangoes
This development means Burkina Faso’s mangoes and cashews will now be processed within the country instead of being exported in raw form.
@TurkishCentury Alhamdulillah, this will become first carrier which built by Islamic country, Inshaa Allah may ALLAH SWT make everything easy..Aamiiin YRA...greeting from brothers in Indonesia...
⚓️ Türkiye's 1st full-scale aircraft carrier #MUGEM, now under construction, is scheduled to join the #TurkishNavy in 2032. Displacing 60K tons, the massive ship will operate up to 52 #Hürjet-N fighters, #KIZILELMA, #ANKA3, #TB3 UCAVs as well as unmanned sea vehicles. 🇹🇷
84 years ago today, a pilot running out of fuel made a decision that won the Pacific War. Most Americans have never heard his name.
June 4, 1942. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's navy is undefeated. Four of the carriers that burned Pearl, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, are steaming toward Midway to finish off the US Pacific Fleet.
At 7:52 AM, Wade McClusky launches from USS Enterprise leading 32 Dauntless dive bombers. Here's the detail nobody mentions: McClusky is a fighter pilot. He'd been given the air group weeks earlier and had barely flown a dive bomber in combat. Now he's leading every SBD the Enterprise has at the most important target in the Pacific.
9:20 AM. He arrives at the intercept point where the Japanese fleet is supposed to be.
Empty ocean. Nothing for miles.
The Japanese had turned. Nobody knew where. And now McClusky owns the worst math problem in naval aviation: his fuel is bleeding away, and every minute he keeps searching, he condemns more of his own pilots to ditch in open water where nobody will find them.
Doctrine is clear. Turn back.
McClusky keeps going. He works a search pattern, squeezing miles out of dying fuel tanks.
9:55 AM. Far below, a single Japanese destroyer is cutting a white scar across the ocean at flank speed. It's the Arashi, racing to rejoin the fleet after depth-charging the American submarine Nautilus. Think about that. A failed sub attack is about to give away the entire Japanese navy.
McClusky reads the wake like an arrow and follows it.
10:02 AM. The horizon fills with the entire Japanese strike force. Four carriers, their decks crammed with planes being refueled and rearmed. Fuel lines snaking everywhere. Bombs stacked in the open.
And here's the miracle: the sky above them is empty. Minutes earlier, American torpedo squadrons had attacked at sea level and been annihilated. Torpedo 8 lost all 15 planes. One survivor, Ensign George Gay, watched what came next while hiding under his seat cushion in the water. Those doomed pilots dragged every Japanese fighter down to the waves. The door upstairs was wide open.
10:22 AM. McClusky pushes over from 14,500 feet. Both squadrons follow him down onto Kaga. It's actually a mistake, doctrine said split the targets, but Lt. Dick Best catches it mid-dive, pulls out with two wingmen, and goes after Akagi alone. His single bomb pierces the flight deck into the packed hangar. It's enough.
By 10:28, Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu, the third hit simultaneously by Yorktown's bombers, are floating infernos. Six minutes. Three carriers that attacked Pearl Harbor, gone. Hiryu follows them to the bottom that evening.
The cost of McClusky's gamble was real. Many Enterprise bombers never made it home, some shot down, others swallowed by the sea when their tanks ran dry. McClusky himself was jumped by two Zeros on the way out, took five bullets through his shoulder, and still flew his shot-up Dauntless back to the Enterprise.
Admiral Nimitz said McClusky's decision "decided the fate of our carrier task force and our forces at Midway." Japan never won another major battle.
One borrowed pilot. One destroyer's wake. One choice to keep flying when every gauge said go home.
SECRETARY RUBIO: "We defined victory as destroying their defense industrial base, significantly reducing the number of missile launchers they possess, and significantly reducing their stockpile of drones, and we achieved all of those."