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Identifying an unknown naval platform

Using Janes you can identify an unknown platform and understand its capabilities. The example below demonstrates how you can identify a military ship using length measured from satellite imagery.

This case study utilises content from:

  • Janes GEOINT
  • Janes Military and Security Assessments
  • Janes Defence Equipment and Technology

Geospatial layers deliver rapid insight into your chosen area

Using Janes OSINT data you can overlay ORBAT and air defence layers to maximise your visibility of a foreign entity’s capabilities and force structure.

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Detailed aerial imagery supports platform recognition

Using Janes map and measurement tool we can measure the length of a ship shown at the Bandar Abbas base to enable us to identify it.

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By entering the measurements we collected into Janes sea specifications tool we can identify that the class of the ship is likely to be a Hengam Class Logistics Ship (LSLH).

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Drill down into detailed platform profiles to support entity recognition

With more than 41,000 profiles, Janes offers the only single resource for comprehensive, unclassified and up-to-date intelligence on military equipment (air, sea, land and space) in production and use around the globe. Janes delivers insight into platform families and variants, with verified and validated data on specifications, weapons and systems, inventories, images and related news and analysis. Using the military ship profiles and silhouettes of the Hengam Class Logistics Ship (LSLH) is the closest to the image from the map.

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Quickly understand the capabilities of your chosen platform

Using Janes Defence Equipment and Technology profiles we can also quickly understand the capabilities of the Hengam Class Logistics Ship (LSLH).

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Satellite imagery analysis further enhances your understanding and augments your analysis

Finally to increase our awareness of events surrounding the base, we can use Satellite Imagery analysis.

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What we now know ...

To identify an unknown naval platform we used:

  • Janes geospatial layers to maximise visibility of force structure and capabilities
  • Janes defence equipment content to identify a naval platform and understand its capabilities
  • Janes satellite imagery analysis to increase awareness of events surrounding the base where the military ship was located