Chris Biggers

GEOINT Consultant; words @JanesINTEL; also over at Views are my own & do not represent my employer

[Chris Biggers @CSBiggers]

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.

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

Indonesia has become Rafale's first operator in Southeast Asia! Jakarta signed for 42 jets in a deal worth roughly $8.1 billion, comprising 26 single-seaters and 16 two-seaters. The first deliveries arrived in early 2026. It's a big shift for a region that has traditionally relied on Russian and American aircraft. Dassault is also pitching the Rafale to the Philippines and Malaysia. I feel buying French is as much about supplier independence as it is about capability. So, who's next?

[Giorgi Revishvili @revishvilig]

Ukrainian forces struck Russia’s Ust-Luga port on the Baltic Sea, setting parts of the facility ablaze in the latest drone attack. 1/

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

snow and ice look amazing in SAR

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

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

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

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.

[Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer) @DrChrisCombs]

NEED

[Taepodong @stoa1984]

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 https://t.co/Ar50hB29H3

[Joe Morrison @mouthofmorrison]

New rule: no more asking me how to interpret SAR imagery until you’ve at least read the book https://t.co/BZG9sErQJd

[Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel]

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.

https://t.co/AVLNzOHepJ

[Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 @bayraktar_1love]

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

[Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel]

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.

https://t.co/QHQHxpY2hw

[Aviation Archive @aviationarchive]

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 diver could move the oil-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.👀

[Aron Lund @aronlund]

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: https://t.co/RY3zwXSGis

[Financial Times @FT]

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. https://t.co/9MWF6Z3d9m

[Ben Zhang @un1c0rnioz]

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 number climb. Found it.

Apparently you can just make the tool you need now.

Code: https://t.co/fmnISzHfZ2

[David Wang @DavidWangPLA]

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

[Chris Biggers @CSBiggers]

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

[Aryan @GEOIMINT]

Geolocation of archival footage showing the unveiling of an electronic warfare jamming system and a radar developed by the Masaf Institute (@masaf_fa) under Ali Akbar Raefipour.

C: 35.747419, 51.603134
S: https://t.co/aL0J7OYgYj

[Chris Biggers @CSBiggers]

Nope.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

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 warm water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic.

[Open Source Centre @osc_london]

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.