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America's adversaries have access to more satellite imagery than ever before. The US should be prepared to fight like everyone is watching.
My latest with Elaine McCusker in the Washington Post wapo.st/4rcMavl
Data centers have become targets in war. From Europe to the Middle East, recent strikes show how these expensive facilities can be vulnerable to cheap aerial threats.
See more satellite imagery from @vantortech of wartime damage to data centers here: viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.c…
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With overhead imagery, my latest w/@bradyafr looks at the implications of PRC and RF tunneling, hardening, and theater-nuclear forces programs.
RF and PRC treat the idea of nuclear warfare seriously. The US should do the same to bolster deterrence.
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Introducing Median Monitor, an interactive map of China's incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone: medianmonitor.com
China has built mockups of American-made fighter jets and air defenses deep in its western desert, satellite imagery from @vantortech shows. One of them imitates an E-767 radar plane, which is flown only by Japan.
See more analysis and imagery here: viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.c…
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On today’s battlefield, the United States has to fight like everyone’s watching.
Read the latest from AEI's Elaine McCusker and @bradyafr on how the US should respond to the power and risks posed by the proliferation of satellite imagery.
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New satellite imagery provides a harrowing look at the aftermath of recent flooding in Nepal and Tibet.
Russia's latest fuel crisis has reached the capital.
Satellite imagery from @vantortech shows vehicles lined up at gas stations in Moscow, as Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries squeeze fuel supplies nationwide.
Check out more imagery here: viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.c…
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New satellite imagery shows damage at Russia’s naval base in Novorossiysk today following a large-scale Ukrainian drone and missile attack. Three frigates and a patrol vessel were damaged, and two submarines potentially as well.
(📸: @vantortech)
Satellite imagery shows smoke rising from a Russian oil refinery in Orsk after recent Ukrainian strikes.
This facility is more than 1,400 kilometers from the front line in Ukraine.
Here's a time lapse of China constructing an artificial island at Antelope Reef, one of several outposts Beijing has built out in the Paracel Islands.
Check out a more detailed overview China's construction efforts here in this graphic from @detresfa_ nitter.cf/detresfa_/status/20751…
Satellite imagery has never been easier to buy, or to fake.
As providers multiply and AI improves, the commercial imagery market will be defined less by who has access and more by who can be trusted.
My latest in Foreign Policy:
foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/06…
Smoke rising from the Russian Black Sea port of Taman is visible following overnight Ukrainian drone strikes.
Russian shipping through the nearby Kerch Strait has been halted due to drone attacks since July 10.
New satellite imagery from @vantortech offers a closer look at Russia's Avitek plant, hit last week by a Ukrainian missile as part of Kyiv's growing campaign against the facilities supplying the Russian military.
See more imagery of these strikes here: viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.c…
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While demonstrating an impressive surge in combat power currently in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy is too small to maintain a wartime footing for this long without serious ramifications for men & materiel, both now and in the near future.
The not-fully-open-yet-not-quite-closed Strait of Hormuz is showcasing systemic problems that have long plagued the Navy.
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle recently told Congress that “providing escort services through a contested strait will…exceed the capacity of the Navy to do that effectively.”
The CNO’s candor is welcome as the sea service seems to make it all work, all the time so it can mask (at least temporarily) deep structural weaknesses.
America’s Navy is too important to national security and national economic interests to let it atrophy so deeply, so quickly.
Russia is building new hardened aircraft shelters at Lipetsk air base, satellite imagery from @vantortech shows.
This kind of construction has been seen in recent years at more than a dozen bases involved in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Check out more imagery of Russia's shelters at other air bases below viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.c…
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First @planet satellite image of the fire at the Nevinnomyssk Wildberries warehouse, taken at 11:05 local time today, July 22.
