Chinese AI Startup Publicly Cataloged U.S. Aircraft at Saudi Base Before Iran Strike
A Hangzhou-based company called MizarVision used commercial satellite imagery and AI object detection to identify and label individual U.S. military aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base — and published the results before the strike on Iran.
A Chinese AI startup has demonstrated the end of deployment secrecy in a single image. As @Dereal_ZAMI reported, Hangzhou-based MizarVision used sub-meter commercial satellite photography and computer vision to automatically identify, classify, and label individual U.S. military aircraft stationed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The annotated imagery was published before the U.S. strike on Iran — meaning a private Chinese company was broadcasting American force disposition to the open internet in near-real-time.
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