MT Anderson

🇷🇺ENGELS AIR FORCE BASE
0.5M📸 Dec 12. Saw a message on the tarmac where the Tu-95s usually are. I'm not a russian speaker but will let someone else translate СМЕРТЬ НАЦИСТАМ but google says 'death to the nazis'.
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Strait of Hormuz Traffic Flow (10 Sep 2026)
SAR pass (02:06 UTC/06:06 Local) shows vessel flow via the Omani channel:

Caveats apply but based on length (which is hard to be certain with SAR imagery), we could have the following:
2x VLCC (~350m & ~330m) transiting south
Aframax (~245m) & previously disabled hull to the north

🇺🇸USN Force Posture Update: NSF Diego Garcia
Sentinel 2 pass (4 Sep 2026) shows naval activity at NSF Diego Garcia.

Wharf berthing has Whidbey Island Class USS Comstock (LSD-45) alongside, while an Arleigh Burke DDG and an unidentified 202m commercial cargo vessel sit anchored in the lagoon.

🇺🇸USN Dual Carrier Footprint - SOCAL
Sentinel 2 (30 Aug 2026) shows 2x Nimitz-class CVNs across SOCAL (NASNI & OpArea)

⚓ NAS North Island: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) alongside
🌊 SOCAL OpArea: USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) underway for workups

High-Speed 🇨🇳PLAN Sortie Off Qingdao
Sentinel 2 (25 Aug 2026) captures heavy North Sea Fleet activity off Qingdao:

🌊 Underway: 2x Type 052 DDGs & 3x Type 054A Frigates
⚓ Anchorage: Suspected Type 076 LHD (~252m)
📍 Pierside Qingdao: Liaoning remains alongside.

Surface action group deployment or Type 076 trials? WDYT?

Caveats apply on vessel IDs given low resolution