Iran’s mass production of the Ghadir class submarine continues to support Iran’s focus on indigenous development of defense equipment as well as bolster Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy. Let’s face it, Iran’s naval vessels are no match for their US military counterparts, especially in the realm of conventional fighting. However, Iran is anything but a conventional player. […]
About Eagle Resolve Eagle Resolve is a multi-lateral event designed to support cooperative defense primarily between the Gulf Cooperation Council member states and US Central Command. [1] This year’s scenario featured naval, land, and air components focusing on: integrated air and missile defense, consequence management, critical infrastructure protection, counter-terrorism, chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear-passive defense, […]
Insurgents in the Baluchistan region spanning Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, are increasingly disseminating reports of their armed activity as part of a media-enabled social-netwar strategy to internationalize their struggle . One such group – Jaish ul-Adl (JuA) – has proven reliably consistent in self-reporting over the past two years, making it possible to track and […]
The latest satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe shows substantial progress on China’s latest space launch center located on Hainan island. In 2005, articles appeared in the Western press citing Chinese officials discussing the development of a new space launch center. That center, now known as Hainan island’s Wenchang, will become China’s fourth after Jiuquan, Taiyuan, and Xichang. [1] According to […]
Satellite imagery acquired by Digital Globe shows a probable Chinese SIGINT station located on the shores of Maodong Bay about 10 nautical miles northeast of Hong Kong. This facility was revealed to Matthew Aid via an Analyst at Digital Globe. Matthew Aid’s description from his blog: Historical Imagery from 2005
Satellite imagery acquired by Digital Globe on 14 August 2013 shows the return of Algeria’s Kilo submarine from the nearby floating dry dock, confirming the completion of routine maintenance noted in imagery from 31 January 2013. The submarine relocated to its regular deployment position shown above. Algeria’s Kilo are deployed to Mers-El-Kevir, Algeria’s second military region naval […]
