Steffan Watkins
@steffanwatkins
I'm a writer and research consultant specializing in tracking ships and planes using publicly available information. https://www.patreon.com/SteffanWatkins
🇨🇦⚓️ Royal Canadian Navy Media and Public Awareness Update (Week 29) showing the state of the RCN, and last reported locations of the fleet. Journalists should know at least this much info is publicly available. (26 Page PDF distributed via Patreon) patreon.com/posts/rcn-medi…
A reminder to my followers, who are interested in defence, that media has limited resources and will spend them topics people show an interest in. Reading articles about defence leads to more articles about defence, leading to more interest - which helps hit defence priorities.
A good, timely, article from Murray Brewster. Xue Long 2, the Chinese ice-breaker a Canadian frigate deployed to escort on short notice last year, is sailing near North America again and CAF and CCG assets appear to be keeping an eye on it.
Sound On: The CP-140 Aurora with serial number 140105 spotted in #Iqaluit #Nunavut @RCAF_ARC JUL.22.2025 #YFBSpotters #LockheedMartin #YFBVideos
A hacker mindset is a huge asset in OSINT.
The term hacker is commonly used for someone who penetrates computer systems without authorization. The term originally referred to anyone with expertise in programming or hardware who tinkers with technology to understand its workings and explore new uses.…
Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up"
A Chinese research vessel returns to Arctic waters — and it appears Canada is watching #cdnpoli #China #ARCTIC cbc.ca/news/politics/…
A grandma celebrating the birthday of her dog. The dog didn’t even look at the food, the eyes were all on grandma.. 🥺
“If you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourself so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavourless, that you will never again be on the boy king's radar … you are fucking wrong." cnn.com/2025/07/22/med…
I guess the US Army got ratioed and ran like the Taliban were chasing them. Too soon? 🤷♂️
It's 2025 and this is sad.
“This is one of the worst tragedies we’ve seen,” @WFPChief tells me as dozens of Palestinians were reportedly killed by Israeli fire while desperately approaching a @wfp 25-truck aid convoy in northern Gaza. She tells me how it all unfolded and calls for immediate humanitarian…
Today,#HMCSVilledeQuébec completed the forward rearmament of Block II Harpoon Missiles while participating in Exercise TALISMAN SABRE 25 in Australia, demonstrating the continued military interoperability between Canada and Australia. canada.ca/en/department-…
"If MAGA recognizes their empathy-deficient heroes in the film’s main bad guy, it’s not because Lex Luthor is based on Thiel and Andreessen and Musk; it’s because Thiel and Andreessen and Musk are themselves comic book villains." #SupermanMovie gregolear.substack.com/p/sunday-pages…
The Air Force confirmed that a 52 bomber was performing a flyover of the North Dakota State Fair Friday evening and said it is “looking into” reports of a close call with a Delta regional jet… cnn.com/2025/07/20/us/…