Digital Globe satellite imagery of the U.S. military base at Camp Lemmonier in Djibouti, dated Sept. 20, depicts NASA’s WB-57 high-altitude aircraft on the recently-expanded auxiliary operations apron. The question is—why? What purpose does a scientific research plane have in visiting America’s main military outpost in Africa? One possible answer is … making maps for […]
Amak News Agency published a video suggesting that the B-1B Lancer carried out airstrikes in and around Kobane, a Syrian Kurdish town under siege by Islamic State. Early in the morning of 07OCT14, US airstrikes targeted key Islamic State positions around the Syrian-Turkish border town. According to video uploaded to youtube by Syria’s Amak News Agency, […]
Amak news agency reporting from Syria posted images online purporting to show an American Predator drone orbiting the skies of Kobane, a Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey. Kobane, also known as Ayn Al Arab, has been under siege by Islamic State militants since Sept. 15. Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units—a.k.a. […]
Satellite imagery acquired by Airbus and analyzed by Jane’s shows an IS training and logistics site struck by multiple PGMs located near Syria’s Abu Kamal. On 23SEPT14, the USAF launched F/A-18s from the aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush (CVN-77) targeting an Islamic State vehicle staging site with PGMs. (The site was previously geolocated here). […]
The Dorsch Gruppe has upgraded UAE’s Sweihan military airbase which now shows up to four new aircraft hangars and two new aircraft shelter areas. According to information previously released, now since removed from public viewing by the Germany-based firm, the new hangars and shelters support the deployment of the AH-64 Apache, the AW-139, the AS-365 Panther, and […]
Trevor Paglen, talking at Germany’s Chaos Computer Club in December 2013, presented the first video known of the RQ-170 Wraith in flight. A few months before the conference, Paglen setup his camera near Creech AFB in Nevada, to catch the aircraft making its ascent after takeoff. Paglen describes the aircraft engines like that of a “Tie […]
