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Chris Biggers

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HawkEye 360 by day, Janes contributor by night, GEOINT consultant.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 14

Continuing collection on Israel's airstrikes, Umbra SAR imagery captured late yesterday shows quite a bit of damage at the Tabriz missile complex.

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Keiko @keiko-geo.bsky.social · 3d

`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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Joseph Trevithick @franticgoat.bsky.social · 4d

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · 4d

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.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · Aug 13

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...

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Harry Stranger @spacefromspace.com · Aug 13

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...

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sky @scrutacieli.bsky.social · Aug 1

The night will be shining through a million eyes.
Ad Astra ✨

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Marcel @macelblattner.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Jon Gambrell @jongambrell.bsky.social · Jul 6

Crew abandons Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ship attacked in the Red Sea, UK military says

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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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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 6

A nice 1 look collect from @capellaspace.bsky.social showed the total destroyed structures at the Ahvez UAV airstrip which included UAV hangars, weapons storage areas, the control building, and various support structures.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 4

The latest roundup at Janes looking at Operation Rising Lion and Midnight Hammer is now live for subscribers. I sincerely appreciate the contributions from our friends over at @planet.com and Umbra. There's likely another update to come, so stay tuned.

Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 4

For context, they did the same thing last year after their April strikes on Israel. At the time, we tasked some very high resolution Umbra SAR showing that event in detail. The above Planet imagery showed nothing that we didn't expect to see.

Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 4

Looking at imagery, we often focus on what's not present as much as we do with what's present. This recent conflict between Israel and Iran was no different. It provided us with another opportunity to look at what Iran has been testing out at Kashan airport after they dispersed their UAVs.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 2

As a child of the 1980s, I pause every time I come to this slide. Farewell old friends, gone but never forgotten. (Imagery courtesy of @planet.com)

Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jul 1

While things have slowed down between Iran and Israel, there's still plenty of accounting to be done to fully understand the damage to the air defense network. Plant imagery acquired 1128Z 24JUN2025 showed a destroyed Matla-al-fajr VHF radar and two probable containerized missiles.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · Jun 24

Russian soldiers in heat-insulating anti-drone ponchos tried to approach and attack frontline positions.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · Jun 22

A Ukrainian ground drone equipped with a UB-16 rocket launcher, typically mounted on aircraft such as the Mi-24. It fires S-5 unguided rockets.

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 20

Imagery analysis suggests a possible ELINT system could have replaced one of the TELs—a previously identified configuration with air defense protecting the refinery.

Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 20

Planet imagery acquired 1036Z 18JUN2025 showed that the Bavar system IVO the refinery has likely redeployed approximately 650 m west to a legacy air defense position.

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Jun 18

I can't believe we're in a timeline where Tucker Freaking Carlson is a voice of reason in a conversation.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 18

WATCH: “You’re a U.S. senator and you don’t know anything about the country you want to topple.”

Tucker Carlson embarrasses @sentedcruz as he pushes for war with Iran

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 19

Iran's air defense continues to be degraded. Planet imagery acquired 0744Z 18JUN2025 highly suggests Israeli airstrikes have destroyed S-200 components to include the two 5N62 SQUARE PAIR and the 5N84 TALL KING radars. These were deployed around the Eight Shekari Airbase in Isfahan.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Jun 19

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

Guardian headline saying, "‘It’s terrifying’: WhatsApp AI helper mistakenly shares user’s number
Chatbot tries to change subject after serving up unrelated user’s mobile to man asking for rail firm helpline"

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Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 18

Planet imagery acquired 0433Z 17JUN2025 confirmed that Israel destroyed the Alam al-Huda VHF radar that was deployed to Fath Airport in western Tehran. The radar arrived in April 2025 replacing the Kavosh UHF (Kasta-2E2) system. SEI is believed to have only manufactured one Alam al-Huda.

Chris Biggers @csbiggers.bsky.social · Jun 18

"Good night sweet prince"
I've been tracking Iranian frankenradars for years, and today Tehran lost one I believe to be the basis for several others that have popped up recently.

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · Jun 16

Wild stuff: Mohsen Rezaei in Iran says that Iran has a secret commitment from Pakistan to use nuclear weapons against Israel, leading Pakistan's defense minister to publicly clarify that Pakistan's nuclear weapons are "solely" for its defense www.livemint.com/news/world/p...

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