🇺🇦 A 2S1 Gvozdika 122mm Self-Propelled Howitzer undergoing repairs at a depot of the 50th Repair and Restoration Regiment.
APNewsAlert: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — United Arab Emirates announces its intention to leave the OPEC oil cartel effective May 1.
My article about the NASA WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft appears in this week's Space Review. thespacereview.com/article/5174/1
Our Janes report is live. In it, Sean O'Connor and I examine developments across China’s early warning network. Among the more notable is a unpublicized system resembling a possible land-based derivative of the Type 346 radar. A series of these have been identified along China's littorals. #geoint
I wrote about JUMPSEAT a few years ago. The NRO has not released much that is new, other than the images. Hopefully they will declassify more in the near future. www.thespacereview.com/article/4096/1
The National Reconnaissance Office has declassified limited details about JUMPSEAT, a Cold War-era signals intelligence satellite program in HEO. www.nro.gov/news-media-f...
Anta Rupflin (German painter) 1895 - 1987 Dunkelhaariger Mann mit großem Schal, (Max Birrer), 1927 tempera on canvas (23.62 x 18.11 in.) #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
Teil 2 der deutschen Fassung meines Jahresrueckblicks ueber die chinesische Marine (PLAN) im vergangenen Jahr, fuer @hartpunkt.bsky.social: www.hartpunkt.de/die-chinesis...
Die chinesische Marine im Jahresrückblick 2025 – Teil 2: U-Boot-Flotte, Logistik, Forschung & Entwicklung
Im ersten Teil dieses Überblicks hat hartpunkt wichtige Entwicklungen für die chinesische Überwasserflotte im vergangenen Jahr beleuchtet. Der zweite Teil bietet eine Zusammenfassung der bedeutendsten...
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We’ve placed the available videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis today into the same synchronised timeline and are continuing to analyse further.
More detailed analysis of the killing of Renee Good, this time from the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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I arrive here having finished a major, multi-month project: creating a posters in a hachure style reminiscent of centuries past. Have a look: terrainlines.etsy.com. There's a free ebook, too! somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2024/10/31/a... If you could share them around, I would be grateful!
Georeferencing is one of my favorite parts of my job. It's just so satisfying to get an old map lined up in the right place and be able to reproject it.
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
Terrific high quality images of Type 076 LHA Sichuan docked at the old Hudong facility in Shanghai. I dont think we've seen the hull as clearly before. Via _p2p/Wb.
Hans Bethe, the scientist who worked in both the Manhattan Project & USA H-bomb programs, wrote in 1983 a 40 page history called "The Story of Los Alamos." It seems not to be publicly available online except where I have made it so, free for all: osf.io/thjpk #NukeSKY 1/n
Detailed footages of collapsed structure at the 31st Launch Complex of the Baikonur Cosmodrome
`viewtif` now supports File Geodatabase (.gdb)! Thanks to the contribution by Peter Von der Porten ✨ Check out the v0.1.7 github.com/nkeikon/tifv...
GitHub - nkeikon/tifviewer: A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line
A simple GeoTIFF viewer for the command line. Contribute to nkeikon/tifviewer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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For those who don't have access to imagery, a new Russian radar we've been monitoring that could be associated with the S-500 is now in Google Earth.
NEW: Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani’s visit to Beirut likely reflects Iranian efforts to recover Iranian influence in Lebanon and in the Levant after Hezbollah’s degradation and the collapse of the Assad regime. 🧵(1/4) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate08...
SpaceFromSpace now features over 500 declassified Cold War era spy satellite images from all over the world! Each one fully browsable, interactive, and free for anyone to view. spacefromspace.com/declassified...
The Western Veil Nebula NGC 6960 ✨ Capturing ancient stellar violence in the constellation Cygnus! This shows the aftermath of a massive star that exploded over 20,000 years ago. Part of a larger mosaic project to capture the entire Cygnus Loop! 🌌 #Astrophotography #veilnebula
Crew abandons Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says apnews.com/article/yeme...
Crew abandons Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says
Crew members aboard a Liberian-flagged ship set ablaze by a series of attacks in the Red Sea have abandoned the vessel as it took on water.
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