Located approximately 12 miles West of the Shaheed Mwaffaq AB, the al Azraq refugee camp has grown in size since opening. Imagery acquired by DigitalGlobe on 28DEC13 shows ongoing construction activity at the site. At the time of imagery, 3,174 structures were detected in the camp, which included 2,431 infrastructure and support buildings as well as […]
The latest available imagery from January 2013 acquired by DigitalGlobe shows a flight of MIG-29 multirole fighter aircraft on the main operations apron at Syrian Air Force Sayqal AB, approximately 53 miles northeast of Damascus. (Another MIG-29 was parked on the airfield’s engine test stand at the time of capture). Syrian MIG-29s were first utilized to defend […]
Belarus and Russia will now jointly patrol Belarusian airspace in an attempt to operationalize the joint air defense agreement ratified by Belarus previously in February 2012. Last month, Russia deployed the first four Su-27P (FLANKER-B) fighters to Baranovichi’s 61st Fighter airbase, located in Brestskaya Voblast, approximately 130 and 140 kilometers from the Lithuanian and Polish […]
It would appear that North Korea’s West Sea Fleet may have participated in last year’s March exercises. The latest imagery from DigitalGlobe, available in Google Earth, shows substantial activity at North Korea’s Yongdok Naval Base, the main deployment site of hovercraft on the northwest coast. A total of 16 Kongbang hovercraft were observed parked on or near the shore. […]
A new imagery report from 38North.org, a program run by Johns Hopkins’ U.S.-Korea Institute, shows activity at North Korea’s Sohae Test Facility. Recent commercial satellite imagery indicates that North Korea may be preparing the Sohae Satellite Launching Station (“Tongchang-ri”) for a more robust rocket test program in the future involving larger space launch vehicles and road-mobile […]
A Reaper drone (Predator B) part of the CBP fleet that patrols the border with Mexico has crashed off the coast of southern California, Michael Friel, an agency spokesman, said in an e-mail on 28JAN14. Customs and Border Protection said the drone was looking for drug and people smugglers when a mechanical problem developed about 20 […]
