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Created
Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated.
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 10 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 97% 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
36 measurements spanning 63 days, net -329. 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 21,344–21,771 and does not start at zero.
Measurement log — every subscribers count we have recorded, most recent 20 of 36
Measured (UTC)
Subscribers
Change
8 Oct 2026, 15:17
21,393
-19
4 Oct 2026, 05:59
21,412
-70
25 Sept 2026, 14:18
21,482
+32
18 Sept 2026, 23:56
21,450
-21
16 Sept 2026, 14:40
21,471
-21
14 Sept 2026, 15:56
21,492
-11
13 Sept 2026, 05:17
21,503
-1
11 Sept 2026, 04:18
21,504
-11
8 Sept 2026, 08:22
21,515
-22
5 Sept 2026, 04:41
21,537
-12
3 Sept 2026, 11:38
21,549
+2
2 Sept 2026, 03:54
21,547
+3
1 Sept 2026, 04:34
21,544
-5
31 Aug 2026, 02:18
21,549
-1
30 Aug 2026, 03:54
21,550
-6
29 Aug 2026, 02:04
21,556
-1
28 Aug 2026, 01:12
21,557
-7
26 Aug 2026, 22:36
21,564
+3
25 Aug 2026, 22:13
21,561
-7
24 Aug 2026, 20:05
21,568
first reading
Engagement
428 posts held, back to 5 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 67 pages of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
ERR · 30 days
10.3%
avg views ÷ 21,393 subscribers
Avg views / post
2,210
90 posts measured
Reaction rate
1.41%
reactions ÷ views · ER floor
Posts in window
90
of 428 held
ERR is average views per post over the last 30 days divided by subscribers, the definition TGStat uses, so this figure is comparable with the one you will see elsewhere. It falls structurally as a channel grows: a high ERR on a small channel and a low one on a large channel describe reach mathematics, not quality. We publish the figure and the sample it came from and pass no verdict on it.
ER is defined industry-wide as (forwards + reactions + comments) ÷ views — note the denominator is views, not subscribers. Telegram’s public web preview carries views and reactions but not forward or comment counts, so the reaction rate above is the reactions term only and is therefore a floor: the true ER for this channel is higher by an amount we have not measured and will not estimate.
What these figures were computed from
Window
Rolling 30 days · latest post in window 9 October 2026
Posts held
428 (5 August 2026 – 9 October 2026)
Views total
199,214
Reactions total
2,807
Forwards / comments
not exposed by the public surface — not measured, not estimated
Readings taken
9 Oct 2026, 17:25 UTC
Views are a single reading per post, taken at the time above. A post published in the last day or two is still accumulating views, which pulls the 30-day average down slightly. That is a property of the standard definition rather than a fault in it, so we keep the definition rather than “correcting” the number into something nobody can reproduce.
Precision. Telegram publishes view counts on its public widget in short form — 8.12K, 3.7M — so any reading at or above 1,000 reaches us rounded to three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. Averages and rates derived from them are shown to the same precision rather than to the unit: a figure like 3,701,250 would assert digits nobody measured.
Reaction counts are published per emoji and rounded the same way, so a total below 1,000 is exact and a larger one is a sum that may carry a rounded component from each emoji above 1,000. Because it is a sum, it does not look rounded — read a large reaction total as three significant figures per contributing emoji rather than as the figure it prints.
What this channel posts
Photos
≈14,000
Videos
≈5,360
Links
≈186
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 9 October 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. A count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints these counters in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈142,000 means somewhere between 141,500 and 142,499.
Video runtime
44m 46s
Average length
41s
Measured directly from 65 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.
Reaction mix
14,617 reactions across 428 posts, in 68 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 17.8% of them.
Every reaction kind recorded on the sample, most used first
Reaction
Count
Share
Share, drawn
🤡
2,596
17.8%
❤
1,715
11.7%
👍
1,228
8.40%
👏
931
6.37%
🔥
905
6.19%
🤣
866
5.92%
🤬
814
5.57%
🤔
568
3.89%
🖕
511
3.50%
💩
464
3.17%
🙏
431
2.95%
🫡
396
2.71%
🥱
388
2.65%
🤮
354
2.42%
👀
278
1.90%
😁
257
1.76%
👎
246
1.68%
🥴
221
1.51%
😢
132
0.903%
😭
106
0.725%
48 further kinds
1,210
8.28%
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 428 of the 428 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 14,617 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 428 most recent posts we hold, published 5 August 2026 to 9 October 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The FBI has arrested a man in Pennsylvania on suspicion of carrying out the hack that stole sensitive personnel data on thousands of FBI employees, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The New York Times. They said he is a Canadian citizen and is considered a primary co-conspirator in the intrusion. His name and the charges have not been released.
The FBI’s cyber chief, Brett Leatherman, sai…
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday, according to Reuters, which reviewed a statement from Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of the official announcement. Reuters reports the sanctions would bar U.S. companies from providing services to the court itself, forcing banks, insurers and software companies to cut ties. That goes beyond earlier sanctions on indiv…
The National Hurricane Center in Miami upgraded Hurricane Isaias to a Category 3 major hurricane a little more than an hour ago, with maximum sustained winds of 120 mph. The upgrade was based on data from a U.S. Air Force Reserve WC-130 Hurricane Hunter aircraft. Isaias is about 240 miles south of Pensacola, Florida, moving north northeast at 15 mph.
It is the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season and the firs…
Following Houthi strikes against Saudi Arabia’s King Khalid International Airport, a statement Fri Saudia has said that one pilot was killed in the strikes, Captain Hamoud Ali Alkalyhami. In the hours/day since the attack, the Saudis have targeted the Houthi seat of power, Sanaa, Yemen, a number of time, as Yemeni government operations, supported by Saudi strikes, continues.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) Center has issued a warning after receiving multiple reports that a vessel was struck by an unknown projectile 13 nautical miles west of Al Jazeera, United Arab Emirates (UAE), at about 10:00 UTC today. The strike caused a fire that has since been extinguished. The condition of the crew, the damage and any environmental impact are unknown, and authorities are inves…
Following Houthi attacks against King Khalid International Airport and other areas across Saudi Arabia, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office has put out a commensurate advisory to the U.S. State Department’s on Saudi Arabia, saying that they advise “against all but essential travel to Aseer, Riyadh, Najran, and Jizan provinces.” Per the advisory, travel within 10km of the Saudi-Yemen border is not adv…
The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of former U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed, the Associated Press reports. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that the execution would be “public” and that people will be able to watch it.
Hasan was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, that killed 13 people and wounded 32. Hegseth recommended death by fi…
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth looks over 'victory marks' on the hull of USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), with “EPIC FURY” painted above rows of ship and drone silhouettes. Victory marks are a long military tradition for recording combat results, and aircraft from the Lincoln’s air wing have returned with similar ones, including a submarine silhouette on a VFA 41 Super Hornet.
Hegseth visited the carrier at sea yesterda…
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B "Osprey", based at Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina carrying 4 Marines made a hard landing in Bladen Lakes State Forest near Elizabethtown, North Carolina at approximately 10:20a.m. local time today, according to local media reports. The incident reportedly injured one Marine, and they were transported by air ambulance to the University of North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center…
According to an update from the U.S. State Department, following Houthi Attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, U.S. government employees will now require authorization to use the airport and must stay at least 20 miles away from the Saudi-Yemeni border. The current recommendations for U.S. civilians in country remain the same.
The U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) has sanctioned 17 more tankers tied to Iran’s shadow fleet, the network of older vessels that move sanctioned Iranian oil and petrochemicals to foreign buyers. Treasury says the action “effectively neutralizes the vast majority” of Iran’s remaining shadow fleet. It did not say how many vessels are left, and it acknowledged the network is fluid, with ships routi…
President Donald J. Trump has announced on Truth Social that the U.S. is having "productive" discussions with Iran and that the U.S. will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the U.S. midterm elections on November 3rd.
🤡38🤣6❤5💩3🤔2✍1🖕1🤪1
Showing the 12 most recent of 428 posts we hold for @DefenderDome. 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.
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 1 registered channel — 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.
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.
Handles this channel named that no longer answer
Dead references
2
handles named in this channel’s posts, vacant today
Evidenced gone
0
we ourselves saw one of these resolve, at some point
Never seen alive
2
vacant every time we have ever looked
@DefenderDome named 2 handles that resolve to nothing today. That is a fact about the reference, not necessarily a fact about the handle’s history — see the two groups below.
Most of these may never have existed as a live channel at all. A handle a channel names can be a typo, an aspirational name nobody registered, or a channel that was already gone before this one ever mentioned it. Unless a row below is marked evidenced, all we know is that it references a handle that is not a live channel today — not that anything “died”. How this is measured.
Never seen alive
References a handle that is not a live channel — we have no record it ever was one.
@barakravid named in 1 post, 28 September 2026 – 28 September 2026
@thewarzonewire named in 1 post, 23 August 2026 – 23 August 2026
Channels Telegram recommends alongside this one
Telegram’s own answer, not this register’s. When this register asks Telegram’s API what is similar to this channel, this is the list it returns, in the exact order Telegram returns it — never re-sorted by subscribers or by anything else this register measures. The relationship, and the order, are Telegram’s; we record them and date them, and make no claim of our own about which of these channels actually resemble this one.
Read from Telegram’s recommendation API, most recently 23 September 2026. Telegram holds a list like this for a small and growing share of the register — how this is measured, and why most channel pages show nothing here.
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.
Hoje no Mundo Militar - Canal @hojeno_mundomilitar · 89,664 Telegram ranks this channel #72 of 76 here — alongside 75 others — read 17 August 2026
This channel appears in 1 seed channel's Telegram-generated recommendation list in total. 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 8 October 2026 — this
entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“The Defender Dome” (@DefenderDome), 21,393 subscribers as measured 8 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/DefenderDome.
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.