Russia has long included Belarus as a part of its export supply chain, repairing older military equipment in order to keep Belarusian maintenance proficiencies up to par. Not to mention, Belarus has often relied upon military exports as a key area of income. The recent transfer of 18 former Indian Su-30K to the Belarusian-based 558 […]
The latest satellite imagery from Digital Globe shows further improvements at an airfield located on Qeshm island near to what is thought to be an underground submarine naval base. The airfield’s ongoing development over the years — following closely with tensions in the Strait — now includes additional support buildings as well as a lengthened, […]
Although Iran’s Veleyat 91 naval war games have come and gone, recent statements and historical satellite imagery continue to reiterate Iran’s long term goal of projecting substantial force into the Sea of Oman. Almost every year commercial satellite imagery has shown the Ghadir coastal submarines mobilizing at Bander Abbas for the Velayat naval war games. […]
NATO scrambles French fighters on rotation in Lithuania to escort Russian aircraft as Russian flights near Baltic airspace continue to grow. On 08JUN13, two Mirage F1 CR took off in less than ten minutes from the alert apron at Siauliai, Lithuania, a primary deployment location of NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission. They joined two of Sweden’s JAS-39 Grippen […]
Iran reported on 09JUN13 that it opened its first space tracking center to monitor passing objects in space specifically citing overhead satellites. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who inaugurated the facility located approximately 14 miles Northeast the town of Delijan, said the center will help the country to manage “activities of satellites” but was also capable of monitoring […]
The Quick Look As is well known, Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia is one of the US military’s forward operating hubs in the Indian Ocean region. It supports the prepositioning of military assets, long range bomber ops, the replenishment of naval surface combatants, and now with recent upgrades, the special operations capabilities of the SSGN. […]
