Iran’s October Missile Raid
by October 2, 2024 | No Comments
|Iran just launched what may be the largest single missile raid in history, and Israel claims no Israeli deaths. While we’re still very early in the news cycle, Jeffrey and Aaron start picking apart the information available to look at what we can learn about the state of the Iranian offensive missile arsenal, weight what …
Busting the Burevestnik
by September 18, 2024 | No Comments
|Friend of the Pod Decker Eveleth found the Burevestnik deployment site, it seems! Decker, of the CNA Corporation, has tracked down what appears to be the deployment site of the 9M730 Burevestnik, aka the SSC-X-9 Skyfall, using Planet Labs satellite imagery. It appears to be about 300 miles north of Mosco, near a national-level nuclear …
Turkey’s Nuclear Turbines
by September 16, 2024 | No Comments
|Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 we’ve heard a lot of chatter about US and European resolve to sanction or otherwise deter cooperation between the West and Russia’s nuclear industry. A small number of vendors in Europe and the US have acknowledged since the invasion that they aim to capture market share for nuclear …
TYPHON, FATHER OF MONSTERS
by June 27, 2024 | No Comments
|Jeffrey and his team have been OSINT’ing the heck out of the deployment of the Typhon Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) ((Typhon Smurf?)) to the Philippines, and tracked down the airport and deployment zone. Recently the U.S. Army deployed the new Typhon SMRF system to the Philippines as part of an exercise, raising the ire of …
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Iran just launched what may be the largest single missile raid in history, and Israel claims no Israeli deaths.
While we’re still very early in the news cycle, Jeffrey and Aaron start picking apart the information available to look at what we can learn about the state of the Iranian offensive missile arsenal, weight what Iran’s options for next steps are, and dive into the internal nuclear politics of both Israel and Iran.
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