Umbra synthetic aperture radar imagery acquired 0648Z 19APR2024 showed evidence of damage to the Iranian S-300PMU2 strategic surface-to-air missile battery in Isfahan since 15APR2024. A probable damaged 30N6E target engagement radar was visible in imagery still on the radar hardstand. Other battery system components however have been withdrawn from the site. Their status and location is currently unclear. According to senior U.S. military sources speaking to FOX News, “The Israelis hit what they intended to strike.” In my haste to make the previous tweet I pulled callouts from other slides in the deck, so there were discrepancies that required amending. Apologies for deleting the tweet.

Handheld video uploaded to Tik-Tok shows Novoozerne corresponding with Planet collection on 19FEB2022.

https://twitter.com/CSBiggers/status/1495545091825586177

Recent @planet collection on 21FEB2022 showed that the equipment previously in convoy formation on 19FEB had relocated.

Imagery acquired 12FEB2022 by @capellaspace shows armored formed up at Alchevsk. (again another typo fix, sry.) Welcome to the 'count-the-blob' game. @planet's Planetscope imagery acquired on 13FEB2022.

https://twitter.com/COUPSURE/status/1492973802610958343

This is Luninets AB, located approximately 50 km north of the Ukrainian border in #Belarus. It's a reserve airfield that we often see used in air and air defense exercises. (Imagery: @planet) Similarly, we also have Babryusk AB, another reserve airfield that #Russia has previously used in air defense exercises with Belarus. Like Luninets, we have an active EW site and a cleared runway. (Imagery: @planet)

As #china claimed the Sakteng wildlife sanctuary in eastern #bhutan in June 2020—in likely an effort to sow further confusion—it built a new track to one of four new areas cleared for construction in the Dramana and Shakhatoe areas of western Bhutan. shorturl.at/gipNW Given the Ladakh crisis that had just begun, it’s likely decision makers were off-balance as China exerted additional pressure with new deployments along the LAC, some of which we still see today. (imagery: @planet)

With news of the village finally leaking, we may add some color to other developments. We'll see what time allows today.

https://twitter.com/VishnuNDTV/status/1351101693103104001

For starters, we located the pop-up position of the unit likely previously deployed at Gonggar

@planetlabs has a series of great collects of China's Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Interestingly, the rotating service structure on pad 921 underwent modification in June likely to accommodate a larger payload fairing on the LM-2F rocket for the 4 September launch. Here's a quick look at the service structure before modification.

A couple of J-20 touched down briefly at Hotan as tensions remain between India and China. lol here's the catalog:

https://twitter.com/detresfa_/status/1295403141421101056

"Nuclear alerting would start at the first hints of a crisis in which decision makers foresee possible military escalation".<--Our first datapoint for this occured during Balakot. During Doklam Arihant was still undergoing repairs.

https://twitter.com/Yogeshjoshidec1/status/1243321355883307009

Of course, while Arihant may have been out during various periods of the Balakot crisis, we still don't know if nuclear warheads were mated.

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