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Latest Satellite Sea Surface Temperature for North Atlantic – Loop Current – Gulf Stream ~ link  

China, which has agreed to the transaction in principle, would also build a base of operations near Riyadh for the new Saudi purchases.

Moscow may hand Iran the S-300 Air Defense System ‘if Assad ousted’ ~ link ~ If Assad comes close to being ousted it will trigger the regional war that Netanyahu and the globalists want, and that will trigger WWIII, so any sale ‘if Assad is ousted’ is a mute concept.  I strongly suspect that both Syria and Iran already have the S-300 or the Chinese equivalent or even the Chinese equivalent of the S-400.  Any attack on these two allied powers will not be a ‘cakewalk’ for NATO/GCC/Israeli air forces.  Stirling      
Links on the S-400 and HQ-19 Air Defense Missile Systems:  First photos of S-400 in China ~ link ~ HQ-19 (S-400) ~ link ~ HQ-15 (upgraded version of S-300PMU-1) ~ link ~ S-400 ~ link ~ Wikipedia S-400 (SAM) ~ link 

Syria’s Military Strength – from Syria – video ~ link ~ Good One Morris!   Stirling      

According to a July 5 report published by the Turkish Hurriyet Daily, the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 set off from Istanbul.

The group consists of Turkey’s TCG Gediz, France’s Courbet and Germany’s Bayern warships and the three frigates have a total of 545 crew members on board, with Germany leading the mission.

German Rear Admiral Thorsten Kahler said on Wednesday that the mission of the maritime group is “to give a clear message to terrorists in the region that NATO is on duty.”
“We are not telling our whole schedule, but we will stay in the region.” Kahler said the anti-terrorism mission is “the only Article 5 mission of NATO so far.”

Article 5 of the Washington Treaty of NATO says the member states “agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all.”

The development comes days after Syria said on June 22 that its air defense forces shot down a Turkish F-4 Phantom in the Syrian airspace “according to the laws that govern such situations.” The warplane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. 

Links on some of the warships involved:  
 
German frigate FGS Bauern shown above.
FGS Bayern ~ link ~ FGS Bayern (F217) ~ link ~ Brandenburg Class frigate ~ link  

 
 
French frigate Courbert
French Navy frigate Courbert (F 712) ~ link ~ LaFayette Class frigates ~ link

Turkish Navy frigate Gediz
USS John A. Moore (FFG-19) now TCG Gediz (F495) ~ link
F-495 TCG Gediz Visits Muscat ~ link ~  
Turkish Navy ~ link