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good luck finding any military sites in israel on open access recon sources
good luck getting recent and frequent satellite imagery of anything actually useful from Russia, even if you sign a contract with Russia for that maybe in 10 years if you sue them enough they'll send a few images from 10 years ago
spy satellites have never been attacked you're talking speculative nonsense as usual
Honestly you really need to stop talking when you have no idea what you are talking about (like not knowing solid slvs are highly inefficient vs liquid slvs).
US Military officials have warned of their own spy/military satellite-vulnerability in periods of war.
Recently both Iran and Russia have done aggressive tactics against spy satellites. Iran blinded a passing spy satellite with a laser. The US was shocked Iran knew the spy satellite even existed. Russia moved an orbiter near a French military communications satellite for close episonage. And this only things that have “leaked”.
This was during peace time. If you for one second think that during war, an Iranian satellite is going to be off limits by the enemy then quite frankly you are the one spouting nonsense.
Lastly if Iran wants Military sat photos it can get it hands on them. Lol at you thinking a “contract” with a russia or open source is what they will use. Yes, that is exactly how military intelligence services work.
good luck finding image newer than 6month to one year old on google earth
It was a figure of speech in an overall counter rebuttal. The fact this is all you could find to nit pick about rather than defend your main point (Iran’s “need” for spy satellites) shows you have no basis for a counter arguement.
Even if Google Earth HAD 6 month military base photos that is all Iran needs, because we all know how “mobile” military bases are. One minute they are there and the next minute they are an empty parking lot. /sarcasm
If Iran’s public sector is capable of producing 5m-10m resolution then Iran’s military sector is capable of <1 meter resolution. The military sector of state is typically decades ahead of the public sector in Sensitive technologies. Just go look at decommissioned US spy sats from the 80’s and their capability versus public commercial reconnaissance sats launched today. It will suprise you.
Even Hezbollah gathered actionable intelligence and warned Israel to move a commercial ammonia storage facility in Haifa as it is an easy target that could cause countless casualties. Israel quickly emptied it.
For the targets that Iran’s military establishment cares about a spy satellite is not a necessity. IRGC could have sent up small spy sats in last 10 years if it desired. Like I said plenty of ways for even paramilitary sources to get their hands on actionable intelligence on targets without spy satellites. Iranian officials have said this in the past as well.
I mean right in this forum in the navy section there are pictures of Iran’s shipbuilding yards this was unheard of decades ago. Just look at Syrian and Ukraine civil war conflict and what twitter users were able to get through open sources. In public space ordinary public sector researchers get their hands on pictures of highly sensitive iranian military sites like Sharud. So just imagine what a military intelligence gathering agency in Iran can do.