Recent satellite imagery acquired by Astrium on 19 March 2014 shows one of India’s latest acquisitions, the multi-mission P-8I maritime patrol aircraft. Parked on the apron at Tamil Nadu’s INS Rajali, India’s new platform is a variant of Boeing’s P-8A Poseidon originally built for the US Navy. Earlier this month, Boeing delivered the fourth P-8I to India on […]
Satellite imagery acquired by Digital Globe from April 2014 confirms that China has been carrying out construction activity on the Johnson South Reef. If things couldn’t get any worse in the South China Sea, earlier today the Philippines publicly accused China of conducting land reclamation on the Johnson South Reef, located in the heart of the […]
The latest satellite imagery from April 2014 acquired by Digital Globe shows several additions to Belarus’ 61st Fighter Airbase, a location less than 90 and 80 miles from the Polish and Lithuania borders, respectively. While both Russia and NATO countries always say their respective deployments are not aimed at one another, it’s not too difficult to read between the […]
New imagery published on Google Earth of Turkey’s Batman airforce base shows three Heron UAVs parked on the apron as well as the relocation of two temporary shelters near the staging area. This is the first time open source imagery has captured three Heron together at the airfield. The Batman air force base is an […]
Russia celebrated the 69th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) with a traditional May 9 military parade on Moscow’s Red Square. This year’s parade reportedly featured 11,000 troops, 149 military vehicles and 69 military aircraft.
The recent deployment of Russian SU-27 fighters to the 61st Fighter Air Base may have allowed Belarus to redeploy a flight of fighters to a key location around Minsk. According to the most recent satellite imagery from 24APR14, a flight of MIG-29 are now deployed to Machulischi, home of the 50th Mixed Air Base and Headquarters […]
