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Defense.blog

@DefenseBlog

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7,735subscribers

-167 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026

Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 3,162–10,000.

Register entry

Telegram ID	-1001236887441
Type	Channel
Username	@DefenseBlog
Created	3 March 2021 — measured — cross-checked against a third-party dataset (ext.tg_channel)
First recorded	6 August 2026
Last confirmed live	19 September 2026
Measurements held	14
Confirmed unchanged	1 time, most recently 19 September 2026
On Telegram	t.me/DefenseBlog

Topic

International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 12 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 59% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.

Growth

14 measurements spanning 44 days, net -167. Dots are measurements; the straight line between them is drawn to join them, not to claim we know the path taken in between — snapshots are recorded only when a count changes, so gaps mean “no change observed”, never “interpolated”. The vertical axis spans 7,710–7,927 and does not start at zero.

Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded
Measured (UTC)	Subscribers	Change
19 Sept 2026, 17:59	7,735	-16
15 Sept 2026, 06:17	7,751	-21
11 Sept 2026, 08:00	7,772	-15
6 Sept 2026, 21:42	7,787	-14
2 Sept 2026, 02:27	7,801	-11
30 Aug 2026, 04:56	7,812	-15
27 Aug 2026, 08:46	7,827	-10
24 Aug 2026, 00:16	7,837	-18
19 Aug 2026, 23:38	7,855	-13
16 Aug 2026, 20:56	7,868	-10
13 Aug 2026, 14:37	7,878	-11
10 Aug 2026, 13:22	7,889	-9
7 Aug 2026, 09:14	7,898	-4
6 Aug 2026, 10:46	7,902	first reading

Engagement

14 posts held, back to 2 October 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 19 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.

Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 14 posts for this entry, the most recent from 6 October 2025. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.

What this channel posts

Video runtime: 1m 17s
Average length: 39s

Measured directly from 2 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.

Recent posts

6 Oct 2025, 09:02 UTC≈10,600 viewsread 28 August 2026

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⚓🇺🇲 USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier off of Palma de Mallorca, Spain - October 5, 2025 Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

6 Oct 2025, 08:19 UTC≈7,220 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @OSINTRadarTrackerPhoto

🇱🇹 Lithuanian Air Force✈️ Alenia C-27J Spartan #07BLUE departed from Brussels #EBBR 🇧🇪, heading towards Vilnius #EYVI, as flight #LYF275 designated to military transport — possibly for #NATO's #EFG? 🔗globe.airplanes.live/?icao=503fd2 @OSINTRadarTracker 📡 Follow https://x.com/OSINTMilTracker

5 Oct 2025, 12:16 UTC≈5,150 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @OSINTRadarTrackerPhoto

🇺🇸 United States Air Force ✈️ C5M, Lockheed C-5M Galaxy, (87-0032, #AE057D as flight #RCH2064 departed Ramstein AB. global.adsbexchange.com/?icao=AE057D @OSINTRadarTracker 📡 Follow https://x.com/OSINTMilTracker

5 Oct 2025, 07:23 UTC≈3,650 viewsread 28 August 2026

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Pakistan has issued a new NOTAM regarding the conduct of training and firing exercises of naval vessels in the northern part of the Arabian Sea. Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

4 Oct 2025, 13:40 UTC≈2,800 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @OSINTRadarTrackerPhoto

🇨🇵 French Air Force, Lockheed C-130J-30 Hercules ✈️ from Evreux #EVX, to Yerevan Airport (#EVN) 🇦🇲 as flight #CTM2078 as military transport. #EVREUX | CTM2078 from to Yerevan @OSINTRadarTracker 📡 Follow https://x.com/OSINTMilTracker

4 Oct 2025, 06:16 UTC≈2,500 viewsread 28 August 2026

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🇻🇪⚡💥 At least one serviceman died when an Enstrom TH-480B Utility 🚁(YV3549) of the Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela crashed at a landfill near Maracay in the state of Aragua yesterday morning. At least one service member died in the accident. Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

4 Oct 2025, 06:16 UTC≈2,290 viewsread 28 August 2026

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Between Sep. 30 and Oct. 3, the U.S. Air Force carried out the transport of 4 new F-16 aircraft through the Azores Islands, two of which proceeded to Bulgaria, and 2 to Slovakia as part of fulfilling contractual obligations of the Lockheed Martin company with 🇧🇬 and 🇸🇰. Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

3 Oct 2025, 08:12 UTC≈1,860 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @OSINTRadarTrackerPhoto

⚠️ NEW 🇺🇸 #USAF ✈️ C17, Boeing C-17A Globemaster III military transport aircraft spotted over Northern Ireland, heading towards the South, possibly for more REINFORCEMENT 🔥 📂 00-0178, #AE0814 #RCH825 -global.adsbexchange.com/?icao=AE0814 @OSINTRadarTracker 📡 Follow https://x.com/OSINTMilTracker

3 Oct 2025, 08:06 UTC≈1,570 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @WorldWarIIIInfoPhoto

#BREAKING – 🇺🇲 U.S. President Trump may approve the transfer of additional intelligence to #Ukraine to help Kyiv strike oil and gas facilities in #Russia - NBC News 📹 from today, after drones struck one of the main producers of explosives, the "Azot" chemical plant in Perm. @WorldWarIIIInfo ⚔️🌐

3 Oct 2025, 07:37 UTC≈2,400 viewsread 28 August 2026

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#BREAKING 🇺🇲⚔️🇩🇪 Boeing has delivered the first P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to #Germany. ⚡The delivery marks an important milestone in the modernization of the German armed forces for advanced Maritime Surveillance Operations. https://defence-network.com/erste-p-8a-poseidon-seefernaufklaerer/ Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

3 Oct 2025, 06:12 UTC≈3,290 viewsread 28 August 2026

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The US 🇺🇲 will provide #Ukraine 🇺🇦w/h new intelligence for striking deeper into Russian 🇷🇺 territory. ❗The U.K. 🇬🇧 is already assisting Ukraine in planning and carrying out strikes deep inside #Russia, - Financial Times. Your Defense Source Subscribe to @DefenseBlog 🔰

2 Oct 2025, 18:13 UTC≈1,430 viewsread 28 August 2026

Forwarded from @OSINTRadarTrackerPhoto

🇷🇺 #Russia AF, Tupolev Tu-154B-2 ✈️ NATO reporting name: ("Careless") took off from Moscow Airport (#CKL) for more 11 hours during flight to the South of Russia as flight #RFF64838, now approaching Moscow again. T154 |REG RA-85559 - fr24.com/64838/3c79ce69 @OSINTRadarTracker 📡 Follow https://x.com/OSINTMilTracker

Showing the 12 most recent of 14 posts we hold for @DefenseBlog. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.

Forward network

Republished by

Channels on the register that have forwarded this channel's posts into their own feed.

It Happens Quick
@Ithappensquick · 13 posts World WAR III Info
@WorldWarIIIInfo · 4,1201 post Sovereignty International
@sovereigntyinternational · 6451 post

Republishes

Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.

OSINT Radar Tracker
@OSINTRadarTracker · 1,9275 posts Intelsky 🚨
@Intelsky · 20,6771 post World WAR III Info
@WorldWarIIIInfo · 4,1201 post

Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.

Mentions

Named by 3 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.

Named by

Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.

It Happens Quick
@Ithappensquick · 13 posts Sovereignty International
@sovereigntyinternational · 6451 post World WAR III Info
@WorldWarIIIInfo · 4,1201 post

Names

Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.

OSINT Radar Tracker
@OSINTRadarTracker · 1,9275 posts Intelsky 🚨
@Intelsky · 20,6771 post World WAR III Info
@WorldWarIIIInfo · 4,1201 post

A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.

Appears in Telegram’s recommendations for other channels

The reverse of the list above, and a different kind of signal. This does not require this channel to have ever been asked about directly — each row below is a channel we DID ask Telegram about, whose Telegram-generated list happened to include this one. A channel can appear here with an empty list above it, because being named by someone else’s query is independent of having been queried itself.

Intelsky 🚨
@Intelsky · 20,677
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 26 September 2026

🎧 CJ Onfrab🔊🎼 (Official)
@Onfrabmusic · 48,722
Telegram ranks this channel #4 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 26 August 2026

Channel 14 - English Edition
@c14english · 27,106
Telegram ranks this channel #12 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 10 September 2026

Clash Report
@ClashReport · 109,374
Telegram ranks this channel #12 of 83 here — alongside 82 others — read 14 August 2026

Insider Paper
@insiderpaper · 108,525
Telegram ranks this channel #14 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 14 August 2026

The General
@GeneralMCNews · 144,274
Telegram ranks this channel #21 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 13 August 2026

Disaster News
@Disaster_News · 27,010
Telegram ranks this channel #26 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 11 September 2026

War Noir
@war_noir · 53,385
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 24 August 2026

Global News Monitor
@warmonitors · 152,372
Telegram ranks this channel #27 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 12 August 2026

Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸
@rnintel · 170,796
Telegram ranks this channel #32 of 81 here — alongside 80 others — read 12 August 2026

Amir Tsarfati
@beholdisraelchannel · 568,741
Telegram ranks this channel #33 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 10 August 2026

Post Vaksin Fenomena Malaysia 🇲🇾🍁🍁
@PostVaksinFenomenaMalaysia · 30,626
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 67 here — alongside 66 others — read 6 September 2026

Israel War Live
@IsraelWarLive · 31,200
Telegram ranks this channel #34 of 79 here — alongside 78 others — read 6 September 2026

InaTEWS_BMKG
@InaTEWS_BMKG · 24,139
Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 51 here — alongside 50 others — read 16 September 2026

Tabz - Live News
@tabzlive · 66,427
Telegram ranks this channel #38 of 85 here — alongside 84 others — read 21 August 2026

Israel Today
@ILtoday · 33,523
Telegram ranks this channel #40 of 87 here — alongside 86 others — read 3 September 2026

ILTV Israel News 24/7
@ILTVnews · 45,633
Telegram ranks this channel #41 of 89 here — alongside 88 others — read 27 August 2026

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global
@CIG_telegram · 115,278
Telegram ranks this channel #46 of 70 here — alongside 69 others — read 14 August 2026

𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝟰𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺
@stand4muslim · 42,148
Telegram ranks this channel #47 of 77 here — alongside 76 others — read 29 August 2026

Terkini dan Sensasi Palestin
@cintagaza · 117,867
Telegram ranks this channel #48 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 14 August 2026

Bellum Acta - Intel, Urgent News and Archives ✝️ #FreeVenezuela
@BellumActaNews · 114,627
Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 72 here — alongside 71 others — read 14 August 2026

SAVE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇲🇾
@Save_Palestin · 128,017
Telegram ranks this channel #49 of 82 here — alongside 81 others — read 13 August 2026

#TerkiniPalestin 🇵🇸🇲🇾
@terkinipalestin · 23,991
Telegram ranks this channel #51 of 73 here — alongside 72 others — read 17 September 2026

1 Ummah
@AsriKhalid · 23,735
Telegram ranks this channel #54 of 75 here — alongside 74 others — read 17 September 2026

This channel appears in 37 seed channels' Telegram-generated recommendation lists in total, of which the 24 where it ranks highest are shown above. Each is Telegram’s list for THAT channel, not this one — see how this is measured.

Cite this entry

A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 19 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.

“Defense.blog” (@DefenseBlog), 7,735 subscribers as measured 19 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/DefenseBlog.

Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.