According to a report in The Nation, Pakistan has decided to export the Chinese co-developed aircraft, the JF-17 Thunder by sometime next year. The export of the aircraft is part of greater push to increase defense exports including Pakistani ordnance and Pakistani-built helicopters, Minister of Defense for Production Rana Tanveer said while briefing the press. Various […]
A new imagery report from 38North.org, a program run by Johns Hopkins’ U.S.-Korea Institute, shows activity at North Korea’s Punggye Nuclear Test Site. Recent commercial satellite imagery has identified two new tunnel entrances and continued excavation at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site. Excavation in the West Portal area, where North Korea’s 2009 and 2013 nuclear […]
Satellite imagery helps police fight the unlawful cultivation of marijuana as support continues to increase for its legalization in the US. Recently, police nabbed a marijuana grower near Grants Pass, Oregon for illegally cultivating almost three times the amount he had officially been allocated. Curtis W. Croft, 50, was arrested by police after boasting about […]
This week smog in China provides a startling reminder of how much the country needs adequate environmental planning to curb pollution. While China’s third quarter GDP growth looks great due to increased investment, China’s air quality continues to diminish especially in the areas of the northeast. The latest satellite imagery captured by the Suomi NPP […]
While it’s relatively easy to find open-source image intelligence of Iranian facilities, it’s understandably more difficult to find IMINT that originates in Iran. During a late-September ceremony marking the delivery of UAVs to the Iranian Army Ground Forces (NEZAJA), one such piece of IMINT was displayed that claimed to show a NATO base under surveillance […]
A half hour after a severe Pakistani earthquake, residents of Gwadar noticed a strange land-mass barely one kilometer off the coast. Nasa’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite recently confirmed the creation of the new island off Pakistan’s Gwadar coastline after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Pakistan on 24 September 2013, killing at least 328 and […]
