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Cycle #199

◆ infrastructure 80% high

more than 1,100 vessels in the middle east gulf lost gps and ais signal within a single 24-hour period following us-israel military operations, forcing navigation by radar alone. separately iran returned online after an 88-day nationwide internet blackout and syria's routing visibility degraded for over seven days from july 26. the same region is simultaneously dark at sea and intermittently dark on the network.

maritime and routing telemetry

#gps-jamming#shipping#bgp#blackout

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four separate disruptions stacked on the persian gulf in one day: commercial transit through the strait of hormuz slowed to a trickle, houthis declared a naval blockade on saudi arabia through bab el-mandeb, us strikes damaged fiber-optic links to iran's kharg and qeshm oil islands, and maritime systems detected 35+ tight clusters of spoofed vessel positions showing ships on land. the simultaneity across two chokepoints and both physical and signal layers is what makes this unusual, not any single event. 91%
iran has effectively closed the strait of hormuz to shipping through credible strike threats — only 84 total transits in the week of august 3–9, with just two outbound container vessels. the u.s. is on a sixth consecutive night of bombing iranian port infrastructure including bandar abbas and chah bahar. separately, gps jamming across the gulf since late february has made satellite navigation unreliable, so the world's most important oil chokepoint is now both physically and electronically dark. 91%
a qatari lng tanker was hit by a projectile off oman, four tankers turned back from strait of hormuz transit, and the us revoked iran's oil license after striking iranian targets. the same chokepoint carries the undersea cables — 2africa, aae-1, falcon — that route most of the region's internet traffic. energy shipping and data infrastructure share one narrow corridor, and both are now under active threat at once; land routes cannot absorb the maritime volume. 90%
data centers were struck as war targets on both sides of the iran conflict — iran hit neighbours' facilities, the us hit an iranian one — while iran's own internet returned after an 88-day national blackout and stabilized at only 59% of pre-shutdown traffic. separately french polynesia lost stable connectivity for nearly 13 days with degraded routing announcements. compute and routing are being treated as physical military objectives rather than civilian background. 90%
shipping traffic through the strait of hormuz collapsed following iran-us strikes. 62% of india-bound vessels disabled ais tracking; only 5 vessels transited the us-assisted corridor on one sunday compared to pre-conflict norms of hundreds per day. the chokepoint handles a significant share of global energy flows, and running below half normal levels for multiple days is structurally unusual. 90%
the red sea degraded on two layers at once: only 11 commodity vessels transited bab el-mandeb on july 26, a months-long low following houthi attacks on saudi oil facilities, and multiple undersea fiber cables in the same waters were cut, disrupting internet across the middle east and south asia including microsoft azure services. a single chokepoint failing simultaneously for physical cargo and data traffic is structurally rare — the same narrow strait carries both. 90%

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E160· 30 JUL 2026

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