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, […]
Recent video published by Amak News Agency shows Islamic State taking up position on Mount Mishtenur a little over a mile outside of Kobane, a Syrian Kurdish town on Turkey’s border. Despite reports of a US Predator flying overhead possibly collecting intelligence for strikes, the Islamic State continues to advance on key areas of interest. Kobane, also […]
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 […]
DigitalGlobe imagery from 06MAR13 shows a US C-130 transport on the parking apron at Turkey’s Van Airfield along with a clamshell support shelter. The shelter was erected between October 2011 and January 2012. The reason for the support area is not yet known. Subsequent imagery from July 2013, still shows the shelter deployed to the […]
Turkey’s Incirlik air base near Adana gets new aircraft shelters possibly supporting a second combat air patrol of Predator UAVs. Satellite imagery acquired by Digital Globe shows two new clam shell shelters for the drone apron at Turkey’s Incirlik air base since September 2012. Although the activity may be circumstantial, the addition of the support […]
The United States will keep its Patriot batteries in Turkey while the governments of other NATO member states have yet to decide. Last week, Reuters reported that Turkey had sent a request to NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen asking for the deployment of Patriot missile batteries to be extended. Just a few hours ago, the […]
