Day: October 23, 2026

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Satellite images show Iran rebuilding its “Eagle 44” mountain airbase 100 miles from Hormuz after three rounds of US strikes… with a new taxiway already paved

Planet Labs imagery from late September shows the runway cleared of obstacles, bombed equipment bulldozed off the pavement and fresh concrete leading into the ridge tunnels where Phantoms, drones and possibly cruise missiles are stored.

The tunnel entrances look intact.

The Pentagon has never named the base; Iran has never admitted it was hit.

Hegseth said in April the air force was “wiped out” and the missile program “functionally destroyed.”

Both can be true about March and still miss what’s happening now: 50 of 69 struck tunnel entrances were reportedly cleared by May, a Western official told Bloomberg this month Iran is “well-stocked” with missiles, and Tehran is spending scarce concrete on a base for a fleet Trump says no longer exists.

Either the regime is building for show, or the strike plan for November is about to find out what’s behind those doors.

Source: The War Zone / Planet Labs / Writer: Daniel
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🇺🇦🇷🇺 Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are fighting HAND TO HAND inside 4-foot gas pipelines under Kupyansk, with machine guns, gas masks and 13 feet between them

Russia has been crawling miles through Soviet-era pipes to pop up behind Ukrainian lines, dig out, launch drones and vanish underground again.

Blowing the exits didn’t work, so Ukraine’s 13th Brigade went in after them in an operation named Veles after the god of the underworld, sending explosive robots at sandbag barricades and finding Russian living hubs dug into the walls where men spend months.

It says it has killed over 100 and captured 30 down there.

Drones made the surface unlivable, so the war went where drones can’t see.

The same pipeline network runs into Poland and the Baltics, Moscow is training dedicated tunnel units, and Iran put its whole missile program underground for the same reason.

The $2 trillion drone era just made the shovel a weapon again.

Source: WSJ / Writer: Daniel
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