#Sudan ๐ธ๐ฉ: A new video posted by the "Sudan Shield Forces" (allied with #SAF) and their commander "Abu Aqla Kikal".
Kikal is can be seen with his rare status weapon: late model #China-made ๐จ๐ณ CS/LS6 "Changfeng" submachine gun with 50-round helical magazine.
Test firings of Russian anti-FPV โshotgunโ rifle cartridges that have had the bullet replaced with a galvanized steel capsule containing 7 lead shot.
At only 5 m there is considerable dispersion of the shot.
๐ฆ๐ฒ #Armenia โ ๐ฆ๐ฟ #Azerbaijan: Newly released footage from the 2023 Nagorno Karabakh / Artsakh conflict shows Azerbaijani troops execute two already wounded and unarmed Armenian soldiers. One Azerbaijani soldier beats his chest and celebrates the war crime just before the men are killed.
(via @TheLeaflet)
๐ฒ๐ฝ #Mexico: Footage shows CJNG 'explosives teams' locating buried mines on dirt roads near Apatzingรกn and the Michoacรกn โ Jalisco border using metal detectors.
Reports mention that their limited training has led to a lot of casualties while handling explosives.
(via @belikmexican)
CJNG AND LOS CHAPITOS CONDUCT JOINT TRAINING IN SINALOA
Video evidence reveals alleged members of CJNG and Los Chapitos performing coordinated drills in Sinaloa. The footage shows the group practicing tactical movements in open terrain.
New paper was just published, it is a revision of Camarillasaurus, describing new material, confirming it to be a spinosaur and declaring Protathlitis a undiagnostic chimera. I reworked my old Suchomimus sketch for the press release, paper link below!
๐ป๐ช #Venezuela: Venezuela's Defence Minister led mass drills in Carcas with around 4000 Bolivarian Militia under Maduro's "People Go to the Barracks" plan.
On September 5th, President Maduro announced the formation of 5,336 Communal Militia Units, grouped under a new framework called the "Popular Integral Defence Base".
These units are meant to strengthen grassroots military organization and bring local communities directly into the country's defence strategy amid growing tensions with the United States, following incidents such as the targeting of Venezuelan vessels and the presence of U.S. warships in the region.
(via @comrawire)
๐ฒ๐ฝ #Mexico: Footage recorded by a member of the Mencho Special Forces (FEM) shows a firefight in the forests of Michoacรกn between CJNG and rival cartel members.
The Mencho Special Forces (Fuerzas Especiales Mencho) are an elite group of sicarios tasked with the personal protection of the CJNG leader. Based in rural Jalisco, they were allegedly responsible for the downing of a military helicopter in 2015.
(๐น via @CartelWatchNet)
video of one guy getting shot in the neck shocks you but seeing videos of thousands of Palestinian children getting blown up daily doesn't even bother you says a lot about YOU actually. you should look in the mirror before accusing others.
The first two pieces of Lemuria Phase II are done and here you get the coral reefs! An incredibly crowded mess of sessile and mobile critters trying to get by.
One of my whales also sometimes visits here but since it's 11 m long I only show it's lower jaw/skull here...
๐ฉ๐ช #Germany: Activists from Palestine Action have broken into the Elbit Systems weapons factory in Ulm, dismantling tools which are used to manufacture weapon systems that are then sent to the Israeli army.
The Ulm factory, is owned by Israel's biggest weapons producer, manufactures both conventional and unmanned weaponry (drones) and designs software used for target acquisition (radar systems, thermal imagery etc).
Previously, in August, activists tried to block the entrance of the factory, setting up a protest camp.
(via @ryad.aref on IG)
๐ฌ๐ง #UK: A 15-year-old boy from near Market Drayton, Shropshire, has been detained for 18 months after police found a stash of weapons including crossbows, air weapons, a samurai sword and a stun gun. He had described himself as a "Nazi" and discussed online whether to "shoot up" his school.
The teenager admitted possessing prohibited weapons and extremist material from a manifesto. The judge on his case stressed the fact that he had "terrorist motivations, both racial and ideological" and posed a โreal riskโ of carrying out an attack.
๐ต๐ธ #Palestine - ๐ฎ๐ฑ #Israel: Israeli shells land around the Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza during today's mass.
Previously, the IDF has struck the same church back in July with a tank shell, killing two civilians and wounding several others.