By Galen Wright For the past six-plus years, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army Ground Forces (the NEZAJA) have engaged in a fitful effort to relocate and modernize their garrisons by moving them outside of urban areas. Spurred by economic necessity and operational needs, this plan has often been delayed, but, as of 2013, finds […]
A half hour after a severe Pakistani earthquake, residents of Gwadar noticed a strange land-mass barely one kilometer off the coast. Nasa’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite recently confirmed the creation of the new island off Pakistan’s Gwadar coastline after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Pakistan on 24 September 2013, killing at least 328 and […]
Sweihan Military Air Base is situated in the heart of the UAE’s Zayed Military City, a location approximately forty miles inland from the coast near Reflex Responses main garrison. There, the Directorate of Military Works Abu Dhabi has commissioned the German Dorsch Gruppe to extend the runway and expand the various support facilities to accommodate […]
A new imagery report from 38North.org, a program run by Johns Hopkins’ U.S.-Korea Institute, shows activity at North Korea’s Sohae satellite launch station. New commercial satellite imagery indicates North Korea probably tested a long-range rocket engine between 25 and 30 August 2013 at the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. This conclusion is based on analysis of imagery […]
Last week at Tyndall Air Force base in Florida, the first unmanned QF-16 Aerial Target flew on September 19, providing fourth generation fighter representation of real world threats. According to the USAF, the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron and Boeing Co. conducted the flight, representing the first step in a two year process to phase out […]
According to a recent report from the Washington Post, the US military has been forced to relocate its (at least) two combat air patrol of drones based at Djibouti’s Camp Lemmonier to nearby Chabelley airfield, a location approximately 5 miles to the southwest. The Air Force stopped flying drones earlier this month after a series […]
