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Nov 19, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
Video geolocated at Shifa Hospital complex showing a large tunnel released by the IDF and Shin Bet. The tunnel portal descends 10 meters down, 7 meters covered by staircase and then enters an underground network that spans 55 meters to a metal door. 1/4 Geolocation: 31°31'29"N 34°26'39"E

The structure under which the tunnel was located was destroyed. 2/4

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Oct 17, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Russia has now bought Mohajer-6 UCAV’s and Shahed-136 loitering munitions from Iran. It is also now reportedly buying Fateh-110 and Zolfaghar short-range ballistic missiles. A possible next purchase may be Iran’s arsenal of land-attack cruise missiles (LACM’s).

A thread: The first and most likely contender is the Soumar LACM which first appeared in 2015. The missile has a claimed range of 2000-2500km. This missile is ground launched and has been tested on a variety of occasions.
Oct 16, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
The Luna-M isn’t a ballistic missile and the Fateh-110 isn’t a crummy knock-off, it’s actually very capable and generations more advanced… and actually a ballistic missile. Next we’ll be suggesting the Emad is a crummy knock-off of the V-2. It makes that little sense.
Oct 16, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
It’s substantially more advanced than the Luna-M which is essentially an unguided artillery rocket. These are short-range ballistic missiles with a range of 300-700km and a high accuracy of 5-10m CEP. Playing down Iran’s weapon capabilities has always been a pet peeve of mine. If you don’t have adequate air defences to shoot these down, which Ukraine doesn’t (only a few S-300V and I don’t know how many are still operational), they are going to seriously damage your infrastructure and military targets.
Oct 12, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
I’m losing my mind at this discourse that is materialising around military aid to Ukraine. “It will get us into nuclear war” “it’s the military-industrial complex wanting to prolong war”. Just engage your brains. The conventional weapons that we are currently providing and plan on providing to Ukraine to strike Russian targets inside occupied Ukrainian territory is not going to force Moscow to launch nuclear weapons on NATO countries.
Oct 10, 2022 5 tweets 1 min read
I really don’t understand people who call for talks between Russia and Ukraine. To me demanding peace negotiations now suggests you likely have failed to understand the basics of the conflict, as well as each sides demands and ensured you kept up-to-date with developments. Russia has set goals. It intends to fully steal Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblasts and facilitate full territorial annexation. Putin literally won’t stop the war until these basic goals have been achieved. There may be operational pauses, but the war will go on.
Aug 7, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
THREAD: Last night reports were received of an Israeli airstrike in Jabailiya northern Gaza, that killed at least 4 children, among others. However, evidence points to a different conclusion: that a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket landed short and was responsible. 1/7 Firstly we have video from the scene which shows little damage from any apparent airstrike, however a rocket can be seen at 0:04 planted into the ground with locals inspecting. Screenshot is on the right, the image from the left shows the same location in higher definition. 2/7
Jun 13, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
List of possible targeted killings and operations inside Iran over the past month:

22nd May: IRGC Unit 840 Colonel Hassan Sayyad Khodei shot dead outside his home in Tehran

25th May: Quadcopter drones explode at Parchin missile base killing unnamed engineer and wounding another 31st of May: Ayoub Entezari, an Iranian aeronautics engineer who worked on missile projects for a government research centre attends a dinner party in Yazd, he suffers food poisoning symptoms and dies days later, the party host can no longer be located nytimes.com/2022/06/13/wor…
May 11, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Another video geolocated in Jenin reportedly uploaded to TikTok earlier and then deleted showing militants facing and possibly firing onto street junction nearby to where Al-Jazeera journalist was shot. Location: 32°27'45"N 35°17'05"E This does not prove Palestinian militant shot her but shows, if the video is confirmed to be from today, that active fighting was ongoing on the street and may indicate Israeli forces were present at the junction in the green box above.
Apr 8, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Yes they are, we even have video of Tochka-U missile Transporter Erector Launchers (TEL’s) being moved by Russian forces in Belarus Heading towards Gomel:
Mar 24, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
A ship is reportedly on fire at Berdyansk port in Russian occupied southern-Ukraine on the Sea of Azov coast It’s right where the Russian Project 1171 large landing ship was a few days ago
Mar 18, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Updated map of Israel's integrated air defence system based on public domain information:

Systems included are:

5 Patriot PAC-2GEM+ batteries (70km range)
2 David's Sling batteries (160km range)
2 Arrow 2 batteries (90km range)
1 Arrow 3 battery (range classified) Image Patriot PAC-2GEM+ batteries located at:

(1) Safed air defence site
(2) Haifa air defence site
(3) Palmachim airbase
(4) Dimona nuclear facility
(5) Eilat air defence site

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Feb 21, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
I won’t be posting Ukrainian military movement and you shouldn’t either I’ll definitely be posting Russian military movements however
Dec 7, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
#UPDATE: Houthis say they fired multiple ballistic missiles and 25 drones against military and vital targets in Riyadh, Jeddah, Taif, Jizan, Najran and Asir in Saudi Arabia. -6 Samad-3 drones and a number of Zulfiqar ballistic missiles (Iranian-made Qiam) targeted the Ministry of Defense, King Khalid Airport and other military targets in Riyadh.

-6 Samad-2 and Samad-3 drones targeted King Fahd Air Base in Taif and Aramco in Jeddah
Dec 4, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
👀 “The issues of covert and operational redeployment of troops will be considered at an operational mobilization meeting (OMS) with the command staff of the Southern Military District (YuVO).”
Jul 2, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
I just sat for hours and read about China’s military expansion: from the South China Sea, to missiles, to Navy expansion, to western airbase developments, stealth jets production rates, to ground forces modernisation etc. And I must say we’re most definitely totally fucked. There you go, that’s my analysis on the topic.
May 24, 2021 8 tweets 2 min read
Video of three times Hamas militants hid in ambulances in Gaza, first one is filmed from a cameraman on the ground during street fighting, two other times from drones and in another instance Hamas militants run towards civilians and the IDF has to abort Here Hamas launches artillery rockets from the “Abu Nur” school
May 23, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
One of the more important implications for Hezbollah to learn from this latest conflict with Gaza is that Israel has the ability to locate its underground tunnel and bunker cities and destroy them, as seen with the militants Metro in Gaza. timesofisrael.com/hezbollah-has-… Another point is “the IDF is using a new method to rapidly detect and destroy multi-barrel rocket launchers in Gaza. The innovative technique was developed in the past week of fighting by intelligence experts”- this too will have implications for Hezbollah israelradar.com/idf-new-method…
May 16, 2021 8 tweets 4 min read
Video reportedly from Al-Wehda street or nearby last night. It appears bunker busters were used. They may have been targeting tunnels under the roads. Screen shot from the video from what looks like a fighter jet targeting pod view on the street area. It appears you can see a bunker buster make entry on the middle street and on the street on the left a row of white dots can be seen from what could be bunker buster entry.
Apr 28, 2021 7 tweets 3 min read
🔰Brief introduction to some of the resources in use by Unit 9900 in the IDF and the data collection methods used by Israel and analysed by this unit in order to highlight underground infrastructure and insurgent centres of gravity embedded in both rural and urban areas. Drones- Chariot of Fire: This is a hyperspectral imaging system in use by IDF MALE drones such as the Eitan. Hyperspectral imaging is collected via sensing through narrow spectral bands and the data is used in the classification or identification of properties of objects. ImageImage
Mar 31, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
That’s a lot of BMD IFV’s for airborne assault troops near Crimea. I count 31 on this train, video said to be taken 3 days ago. More Russian BMD’s for airborne troops spotted reportedly in Crimea earlier today according to this account