I love the FCNL Nuclear Calendar. I like it so much, one of our amazing readers created a program that scrapes the static FCNL page and create an RSS feed from the contents. So I was amused when a colleague noticed this little entry in the current calendar: Feb. or March North Korea tests its …
First Debris Cataloged Right on Schedule
by | 2009-02-17 | 6 Comments
click on the image for a larger version This shows the first 14 pieces of debris associated with Cosmos 2251 to be cataloged As I said before, it takes a while for NORAD to accumulate enough observations on separated debris before they can uniquely identify the same object over and over. Today, exactly when I …
When SSBNs Collide
by | 2009-02-16 | 40 Comments
Greetings from Chicago, where I am about to give a talk at the AAAS Annual Meeting on open source intelligence and blogging. This is embarrassing for the Royal and French Navies: Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD has confirmed. …
Safir Engine Component Contest
by | 2009-02-15 | 11 Comments
ACW readers love to analyze photographs and foreign missiles so I thought I would have a little contest: identifying components of the Safir second stage engine. I’ve been staring at a couple of images of the reverse side of the Safir second stage for a couple of days now trying to make sense of it …
