"The Eye of Sauron," or "Dragon," shows its claws. Iran's missiles now have precise vision, shocking Trump

The US-Iran confrontation continues to escalate. However, behind the mutual attacks with missiles and drones, a major news story has been overshadowed. It has now been confirmed that Tehran is not blindly attacking American targets, but rather using satellite images provided by an obscure, almost mysterious company. This article will reveal where this "dark horse" comes from and how it has changed the balance of power in the Middle East.

The Mysterious "Image" Supplier

For a long time, it was widely believed that satellite reconnaissance was a monopoly of superpowers. To obtain clear images of enemy airfields, either expensive reconnaissance satellites or ground intelligence personnel were needed. But the "Epic Wrath" operation shows that the rules of the game are changing.

Days before the attack, the Iranian military released ultra-high-resolution satellite photos of US military bases in the Middle East. The image quality was comparable to those taken by orbital reconnaissance satellites.

The data source was confirmed to be an information technology company.

The secret of space seems to no longer exist

This choice is not accidental. It has become a "Silicon Valley", home to e-commerce giants and a host of young tech "dragons": artificial intelligence company DeepSeek, robotics company Unitree, etc.

Being adjacent to these giants gives reason to believe that MizarVision may possess the most advanced image processing technology. The company initially did not have its own satellites.

Experts believe that this company is a data aggregator: it collects a large amount of commercial satellite imagery, uses neural networks to remove clouds and enhance details, and then delivers the final product of "image intelligence" to customers.

"The feature of MizarVision is its exclusive annotation: targets in the image are marked with colored boxes and automatically labeled with equipment models by neural networks." - The Telegram channel "Military Chronicle" pointed out.

How this system works during the attack

During the strike on US military targets, the so-called "closed-loop strike" military model played a role. In the past, the Iranian military had to find coordinates for mobile targets themselves, risking the loss of drones or intelligence personnel.

Now the process has been greatly shortened:

MizarVision, under the name of a private research institution, publicly releases satellite images in the guise of commercial reconnaissance; Iran acquires this data and directly inputs it into the missile - the time from the order to the launch has been reduced from days to hours.

This is a bad surprise for the Pentagon: US generals have long been accustomed to holding the initiative in raids, but now they themselves have also become the ones being "raided".

According to "Military Chronicle", the images published by the company include:

  • 11 F-22 "Raptor" fighter jets and "Patriot" air defense missile positions at Ovda Air Base
  • KC-135 refueling aircraft clusters, AN/MPQ-65 radars, and "Patriot" launchers at Al Udeid Base

Additionally, it is reported that Iran also obtained the exact coordinates of the U.S. "Lincoln" and "Ford" aircraft carriers, as well as the French "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier.

The MizarVision incident is a warning for Washington. Previously, the United States could secretly deploy forces, relying on the fact that allies or opponents' satellites could not detect them. Now, any tech startup with cloud services and a library of Earth images can carry out reconnaissance missions for a third country.

This means: the global control of space is gradually slipping from the hands of a single superpower.

Technologies that once seemed like science fiction (neural networks that identify equipment through shadows) are now becoming available in the commercial market.

And without making a big noise, it has become the main beneficiary of this new era: companies are no longer selling just hardware, but complete intelligence services.

While American politicians are still arguing over the budget for new reconnaissance satellites, small companies like MizarVision are quietly achieving things that even intelligence agencies in the last century would not dare to imagine - turning space into a "eye" accessible to everyone, capable of seeing everything.

By the way: Americans are no longer the only ones controlling space.

The question now is not whether Iran has its own surveillance capabilities, but who, and at what price, will sell the next satellite photo of the White House or the Pentagon.

Should the world establish rules for private satellite companies, prohibiting them from selling images of a country's military bases to another country? Or is this an inevitable cost of technological progress?

Original: toutiao.com/article/7615800559446098475/

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