Defence Australia

Independent observers of the Australian, NATO and APAC defence and security landscape.

[Matthew Levitt @Levitt_Matt]

NBC’s Election Night Republican Pundit Disclosed as Foreign Agent of Qatar https://t.co/Z0l74S0s4Z

[Andrew Greene @AndrewBGreene]

Australian businesses furious after advanced defence technology project 'cancelled' following months of investment. "There will be companies that go into administration because of this"
https://t.co/LslQ7trrry

[Samuel Ramani @SamRamani2]

Top suppliers of Western made machine tools to Russia

1) Turkey
2) China
3) Germany
4) South Korea
5) Taiwan
6) Italy
7) The UAE
8) Lithuania and 9) Serbia

[HarrisX @HarrisXdata]

🚨BREAKING:

Our final HarrisX Georgian Parliamentary Election Exit Poll analysis shows statistically unexplainable discrepancies in the results published by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia amounting to over 8 percent of the national vote, or at least 172,523 raw votes, across at least 27 electoral districts.

The final HarrisX report concludes that the final CEC election result that places the Georgian Dream party at 53.96% is, simply put, statistically impossible.

Learn more: https://t.co/ZDMojAS8Ft

#GeorgianElections2024 #CEC

[Andrew Greene @AndrewBGreene]

Breaking: The Australian Navy has been left with just one fully operational submarine as the rest of its aging Collins-class fleet undergoes urgent repairs or waits to complete scheduled upgrades https://t.co/RyMS9hQOZn

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

It’s getting worse

[Go Bluesky (@StrictlyChristo.bsky.social) =🦤➡️🦋 @StrictlyChristo]

JD VANCE (yesterday): "Americans need to stop getting so offended by everything."

JD VANCE (today): "I'm offended!!"
https://t.co/rWQcKBp1An

[Clauda Tanios @ClaudaTanios]

#BREAKING Germany to close Iranian consulates in Germany after execution of German-national national, working with EU on further Iran sanctions, foreign ministry says.

[Jan Vömel @JanVoemel]

Germany is closing all #Iranian consulates in the country, thereby reducing #Iran's diplomatic presence to the Berlin embassy.

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Germany will close all Iranian consulates within its borders while permitting the embassy to remain operational, in response to the execution of German-Iranian national Jamshid Sharmahd, the Foreign Ministry announced on Thursday.

The execution of Sharmahd has placed "extreme" strain on diplomatic relations between Berlin and Tehran, a ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. In a show of protest, Germany has already recalled its ambassador from Iran and summoned the Iranian chargé d'affaires to formally convey Berlin's strong disapproval.

[Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @stavridisj]

This is simply ridiculous.  We need a global coalition to destroy the Houthis capability to shut down shipping.  Now. https://t.co/bAM4T1l8FM

[Georg ‘Maverick’ Löfflmann @gloefflmann]

Germany has managed to build a €650 mil, 10.000t frigate that is essentially useless for any but the most benign of operational environments. Anything above a Somali pirate skiff and the F-125 is in trouble.

[Navy Lookout @NavyLookout]

German frigate 🇩🇪FSG Baden-Württemberg & support ship FGS Frankfurt am Main to avoid Red Sea on their way home from Asia Pacific deployment and will go around the Cape of Good Hope.

Commissioned in 2019, the frigate -Württemberg lacks adequate combat systems to cope with the Houthi threat.

H/T @AlexLuck9

https://t.co/VCQ5bn28X3

[Jonathan Schanzer @JSchanzer]

Now, ask yourself: If you were a foreign leader and buyer of Russian military platforms, would you want to keep buying them after this?

[The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome @TheMossadIL]

BREAKING: Tentacle condemns targeting of its octopus.

[Nico Lange @nicolange_]

The BRICS do not represent “half of the world’s population” because in dictatorships and authoritarian systems people’s interests are not represented in the governments.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

David vs Goliath

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Israel’s Air Force jets are flying over Iran like it’s a damn picnic. It’s historic.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

The S-400 air defense system given to Iran by Russia has just turned into a S-40000 tiny pieces.

Almost all of Iran’s radar and air defense systems have been taken out, and their comms array are mostly destroyed.