Today, Ukrainian intelligence reportedly launched 117 attack drones from trucks that had been placed near Russian air bases. I tasked several collects this morning via @umbraspace and my first images have already started processing. What a remarkable success in a well-executed operation.

snow and ice look amazing in SAR

Revealing it’s all an elaborate performance art piece where we make satellites, send them to orbit, and have them bounce microwave energy off the South Pole in order to sell abstract prints

Dude it’s not that hard to understand. It’s a synthetic aperture radar image. It’s the product of coherent integration of 10,000 polarized echoes sweeping 1,200 MHz of spectrum in the X-band. It’s the salt-sweet smell of the ocean carried on a perpetual breeze. It’s the call of the common loon at dusk. It’s the feeling you get when you solve a line of someone else’s Soduku in your head at the airport. It’s Bach, Come, sweet death, come, blessed rest for five cellos, dude.

NEED

I dont quite like the netting over the TK-3 engagement radar. One, it doesnt appear to be effective, two, it probably limits the rotation of the radar.

source taisounds.com/news/content/7…

New rule: no more asking me how to interpret SAR imagery until you’ve at least read the book a.co/d/06oX1Vzj

The Falaj 3 May Be The World’s Most Heavily Armed Patrol Boat

Officially an offshore patrol vessel, the compact design carries the kind of combat capability normally associated with well-armed corvettes or even frigates.

twz.com/uncategorized/…

An interesting perspective on the launch of the Ukrainian FP-1 strike drone

Australia To Become First Foreign Operator Of AIM-260 Air-To-Air Missile

The procurement marks a major step in Canberra’s push to prepare for high-end conflict in the Indo-Pacific.

twz.com/air/australia-…

In 1914 Harry L. Bowdoin filed a patent for a "Submarine Armor", it was granted in 1915, and by 1918 he had completed his invention, a 1,400-pound metal diving suit. Designed to explore deep-sea caves and sunken ships, the all-metal atmospheric armor used gears and levers so the l-filled rotary arms and legs. Twin 1,000-watt lamps on the shoulders lit the darkness, and tests off the New Jersey coast had already lowered the empty suit to 400 feet and Bowdoin himself to 200 feet, where he walked the seabed for 45 minutes.

The suit and Bowdoin gained fame with an attempt to salvage the sunken treasure of Spanish gold and jewels from the Golden Hoard of Davy Jones, which was believed to be worth more than USD80 million. Supported by “men of wealth”, the expedition aimed to have Bowdoin descend to the seabed in his suit and retrieve the many treasures as well as study the mysterious realm below.

The outcome of the expedition isn’t known, and little further information has been printed on the suit’s design.👀

Sources to @CNN: the United States hasn’t spent a third of its total supply of THAAD interceptors against Iran, as previously reported—it’s closer to four fifths.

@ZcohenCNN, @halbritz, @jimsciutto: edition.cnn.com/2026/08/04/pol…

Reports have surfaced of illegal Colombian armed groups trying to send soldiers to gain Ukrainian expertise in drone warfare — and deploy those skills against their own country’s army upon return. ft.trib.al/SdFW82S

Lost my phone at the office and spent 30 minutes turning the place over. Find My was disabled by MDM.

Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.

I walked around watching the
Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.

Code: github.com/ben-z/findphone

A PLA Air Force H-6N bomber is carrying a JL-1 nuclear missile during a joint strike training, with a pair of J-20s flying close escort

JL-1 Air-launched Long-Range Missile

Quite a few different things tested IVO this location over the years.

Nope.

NASA has released one of the most detailed visualizations ever created of Earth’s ocean currents.

Using data from satellites and advanced ocean models, the map reveals massive rivers of moving water, swirling eddies hundreds of miles wide, and the powerful Gulf Stream carrying f of Mexico across the Atlantic.

The methodology draws together established geospatial analysis with techniques more commonly associated with 3D modelling, animation and visual effects.

For us, that cross-disciplinary approach creates new ways to test, explore and engage with intelligence problems.

With that measurement established, we placed the digital twin into a simulated 3D water plane and adjusted its position until the model matched the observed height of the real vessel.

This allowed us to estimate the Yu Son's draft.

We then anchored the model to measurements derived from the satellite imagery itself.

Using the length of the vessel's shadow and the recorded sun elevation at the time of collection, we were able to calculate the height of the Yu Son above the waterline.