By Raj Kumar On 27 Jul 2013, DPRK President Kim Jong-Un inaugurated the newly renovated “The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum” in Pyongyang. The center attraction at the museum is a Cold War prize catch “USS Pueblo,” the US Navy’s Banner class ELINT and SIGINT technical research ship. The new location of the ship on […]
Located in Iran’s First Naval Zone just to the west of Bander Abbas is Havadaryah airport and its co-located hovercraft deployment site. The airport’s boundaries, situated along Iran’s shoreline, make this an ideal location for hovercraft to support military deployments throughout the region, including Iran’s disputed island territories. The hovercraft observed above were procured from […]
The Philippine military has revived plans to build new air and naval bases at Subic Bay, a former U.S. naval base that American forces could use to counter China’s presence in the South China Sea, Manila-based Manuel Mogato reported in June. The proposed bases in the Philippines, a close U.S. ally, coincides with a resurgence of U.S. warships, […]
OSIMINT recently contributed a piece over at Medium’s State of Play collection on North Korea’s upcoming military parade taking place this year on 27JUL13. In light of that recent post, we would like to take a moment to spotlight the KPA Exhibition of Military Science and Technology co-located at North Korea’s Mirim Airport. The facility’s […]
By Raj Kumar There was an interesting development on 14 July 2013 at the port of Manzanillo near the Panama Canal. A ship named the Chong Chon Gang, a 14,000 dwt bulk carrier with a North Korean flag, was intercepted by Panamanian police on a tip off from its foreign intelligence counterparts. The ship, whose dubious past of three […]
Recap of Recent Activity On 09 June 2013, the Liaoning left its newly constructed homeport of Qingdao for sea training, the first time this year and the first time since it arrived at the port in February, according to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy. Later in the month, China’s J-15 carrier-borne platform, (one pictured on the deck […]
