The latest satellite imagery from 22JUL13 acquired by Digital Globe shows the USS Ponce (LPD-15) and a US Navy Mine Countermeasures ship at Jebel Ali in the UAE deployed from the US Navy’s 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain. The LPD-15 had yet to show any activity related to the installation of the Navy’s new solid-state […]
Sweihan Military Air Base is situated in the heart of the UAE’s Zayed Military City, a location approximately forty miles inland from the coast near Reflex Responses main garrison. There, the Directorate of Military Works Abu Dhabi has commissioned the German Dorsch Gruppe to extend the runway and expand the various support facilities to accommodate […]
The Directorate of Military Works Abu Dhabi commissioned the Dorsch Gruppe to construct the military support section on the north-eastern side of the existing Abu Dhabi International Airport. Although nearly complete, the finished section has departed from the original contract which envisioned a much larger aircraft apron at 360,000 square meters, a parallel taxiway, as […]
New infrastructure developments at Minhad airbase may suggest that the UK is ready to invest more militarily into her Middle East partners as the US begins shifting to Asia. Over the last year Minhad Airbase has been featured prominently in the press, most notably in the BBC and the Guardian for UK military movements. For […]
Three recent events have drawn the attention of global hawk watchers: 1) the potential deployment of the Global Hawk platform to Japan in light of North Korea 2) February’s announcement that Beale would be losing a Global Hawk Support Squadron and 3) the potential cancellation of the Block 40. In light of these events, I would […]
Brigadier General Farzad Esmayeeli, Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base, made a statement on 12MAR13 indicating his forces turned away a US U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane approaching Iranian airspace on February 10, when Iranians were celebrating the anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. “On Bahman 22 (February 10) and around noon, a U-2 […]
