The team at @sbreakintl locates #China's PLAN CV16 Liaoning (Type-001) carrier group 100 nautical miles east of #Shanghai on 10/04/2020 at 02:38:45 UTC before it sailed past #Miyakojima, #Japan into the #Pacificocean— d-atis☠️ (@detresfa_) April 11, 2020
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Forbes: Satellites Track Chinese Aircraft Carrier In South China Sea
The vastness of the ocean is easily underestimated. Even a ship as large as an aircraft carrier is hard to find, it is the classic needle in a haystack problem. Until recently it was only viable for the best equipped navies. Spy planes, submarines, military satellites and communications intercepts are among the tools of the trade, and they do not come cheap. But today a revolution is happening in open-source intelligence, meaning that you do not have to have a navy to do it. This has been amply demonstrated by analysts who have been tracking a Chinese aircraft carrier as it maneuvers far out to sea. And they did it via commercially available satellite imagery.
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WNU Editor: The evolution of open-sourced intelligence in the past few years has truly been amazing. The idea that a civilian can track an aircraft carrier from the comfort of his home was unthinkable just a generation ago.
