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The Wire · 2025-02-04

The Wire - February 4, 2025

Overnight many plane-watchers and aviation enthusiasts noted the presence of very substantial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms operating in the vicinity of Mexico. AC: Many eyebrows were raised due to the observance of an…
The Wire · 2025-02-06

The Wire - February 6, 2025

…Details have been hard to come by as this aircraft was an Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) asset. Anytime a spy plane crashes, the details regarding the circumstances of the crash will usually not be disclosed.
How to Hide From Drones · 2021-08-05

How to Hide From Drones: Synthetic Aperture Radar

when it comes to aerial or satellite-based reconnaissance and surveillance one of the most commonly used classes of sensors is what we like to call synthetic aperture radar so what is it well…
The Wire · 2026-02-20

The Wire - February 20, 2026

…Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) flights adjacent to Iranian airspace have continued over the past few days, as last-minute checks are conducted before the final "GO" command is given. Weather: The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF…
ATAK / WinTAK · 2021-03-16

ATAK (WinTAK) How To: Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance: A Primer

…landing at the airport once the covert observation post is complete your task is to conduct visual reconnaissance of the airport as well as any aircraft landing or taking off you are required to log every…
The Wire · 2024-02-18

The Wire Weekly Rollup - February 18-24, 2024

ble a large number of cellular comms and surveil whatever signals remained the balloon itself almost certainly didn't cause the initial outage but conducting reconnaissance in the wake of a Cyber attack would have provided…
The Wire · 2024-02-08

The Wire - February 8, 2024

…These troops will be supporting the Taiwanese 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion. Europe: Widespread protests continue as before. In Spain, demonstrators have begun blocking distribution centers for grocery store chains affiliated with the climate agenda. This follows…
Military Doctrine and History · 2021-09-08

Top 10 Optics for Observation Posts

…optics much like night vision devices thermal optics are a very significant force multiplier especially for static reconnaissance operations though every observation post would benefit from some sort of thermal device these gadgets work best out…
The Wire · 2026-04-02

The Wire - April 2, 2026

…National-level reconnaissance and EW assets being moved into theater at this point (conducting their first combat deployment a full month after the war began), is not an indicator of the war coming to a close…
The Wire · 2026-09-23

The Wire - September 23, 2026

…Russia has very obviously been carrying out reconnaissance to probe air defenses and test NATO's response, and this case was probably intended to spin up Polish responses, which they dutifully did. Russia probably doesn't…
Communications · 2021-01-16

Advanced Comms: Take Your Setup to the Next Level

own radar site and it doesn't emit any signal whatsoever it uses the signals that are already out there in the ionosphere bouncing around in it to see the reflections of aircraft in the sky which is very very interesting
Camouflage · 2021-06-17

Camouflage Detection via Multispectral Imaging

of the state and ignoring the fact that near nadir imagery or imagery that is looking almost straight vertically down is pretty much useless in the intel world we most always laugh at the scenes that show these governmen
S2 briefing · 2021-06-23

Satellite Communications

al purchase price which when plbs were popular years ago this was quite preferable to the only other alternative at the time the satellite phone also most plbs don't use the same constellation of satellites that other sy
S2 briefing · 2021-10-23

The General and the Dragon

our current ground-based mid-course defense or gmd systems are only about 55 effective in order for them to be 99 effective three interceptor missiles would have to be launched for every incoming warhead and considering
Military Doctrine and History · 2022-05-30

Natural Night Vision: An Introduction

nctional radar radio detection and ranging or radar in its early days was one of the most classified military projects of all time for both the allies and the axis both sides had been working on radar during the interwar
Military Doctrine and History · 2022-07-16

Tradecraft: One-Time Pads

d is useless you you have the most false sense of security there is right because if somebody has your one-time pad you're completely compromised right and these last two are not really related to the one-time pad at all
SIGINT · 2022-08-26

Basic Tactical SIGINT: Tracking Aircraft and SDR Scanning

signals intelligence or signant is a pretty big topic intercepting the signals whizzing through the air is something that is not easy and historically mostly been relegated to militaries around the world however with rec
Communications · 2023-04-23

Spy Radio: Antenna Considerations

g tracking tags on diplomats cars and most importantly radios for the Spy abroad governments have spent billions of dollars to build massive infrastructure to communicate with even just a handful of clandestine agents ov
Intel Update · 2023-09-08

September 08 Intel Update: Hot Summer

te a while uh that particular satellite is used for trans-pacific communications so uh aircraft reported uh you know they got a no Tam saying hey your satcom is going to be down again for people that don't understand for
The Wire · 2023-12-28

The Wire - December 28, 2023

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