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A rare video of flights of the upgraded Su-25K and SU-25UBK attack aircraft of the Peruvian Air Force. 10 Su-25 attack aircraft were modernized under an agreement between the Peruvian military aircraft repair plant SEMAN Perú SAC and JSC Rosoboronexport.

South Korean naval base Jinhe-gu (Changwon), a ceremony was held for the transfer of the Pohang- class PCC 767 Suncheon corvette to the Peruvian naval forces . The ship received a new Peruvian name CC 28 Guise , becoming the fifth ship in the Peruvian fleet with the name in honor of the first commander of the Peruvian Navy (1821) Rear Admiral Martin Jorge Guiz. It is reported that the ship on the same day.

Final price tag of the 300-million-dollar F-16 delivered

Requested Equipment and Services:
24 F-16 Aircraft: Support for 24 F-16 Block 10/15 aircraft procured through third-party transfer.

Weapons and Systems:
36 AIM-120 C-8 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles)
2 AIM-120 C-8 AMRAAM guidance sections
102 MK-82 500lb general-purpose bombs
50 MXU-650 airfoil groups (for GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs)
102 FMU-152A/B joint programmable fuzes
50 MAU-169L/B computer control groups

Additional Equipment:
Weapons and weapons support equipment
Explosives, devices, propellants, and components
AN/ARC-238 radios
Joint Mission Planning Systems (JMPS)
KY-58M and KIV-78 cryptographic devices
Communication security devices (COMSEC)
Training equipment and systems
Spare parts, consumables, and maintenance support
Electronic warfare database support and software
Other logistical and program support items

Total Estimated Cost: $941 million

Images from the European Sentinel-2 satellite, captured on September 3, 2025, confirmed the movement of the Iwo Jima Amphibious Force (Amphibious Ready Group – ARG) in the Caribbean Sea, about 340 miles (~550 km) from the Venezuelan coast, according to public reports shared on X by the account @SADefensa.



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550km is just outside the range of the Bal missile complex i.e. Kh-35 that Venezuela reportely owns.

It's basically the lowest hanging fruit available to them. Consolidate control over Latin America. Latin America will make money by doing business with China, and the US will make money by extracting wealth from Latin America.

The thing is Venezuela operates the Su-30. And the Su-30 supposedly can also fire the Kh-35. Makes one wonder.

The United States is deploying ten F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico in the latest surge of military power in the Caribbean over the last month.

The U.S. military has sent several Navy ships to the region, but the F-35s are the first land-based strike aircraft deployed specifically to operate in the theater.

gelgoog said:

The thing is Venezuela operates the Su-30. And the Su-30 supposedly can also fire the Kh-35. Makes one wonder.

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If they are going for it, any military infrastructures will be leveled in the first hour. Still, I cannot see them achieving anything solid after that, it will be guerilla nightmare on the ground.

Venezuela would have been an ally a long long time ago if honey was used and not the stick...

gelgoog said:

The thing is Venezuela operates the Su-30. And the Su-30 supposedly can also fire the Kh-35. Makes one wonder.

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Iirc no one ever saw su-30 with kh-35. Only su-34 consistently carries kh-35, and other flankers only use kh-31s(red "mgm"s don't count).
It's unironically appears to be one of the reasons why otherwise rather mediocre mig-29m2 was so popular in later 2010s - everything is in fact integrated there, not just promises of "pay and we'll do".