Star in a ring

Cuba (CU)

Is this some kind of military installation, radar station perhaps?

Star in a ring

Cuba (CU)

Is this some kind of military installation, radar station perhaps?

Info Requested
By: Hinkkanen

Nearby:

Santa María del Mar, Havana

Cuban SA-2 Site near Havana

Combinado del Este Prison

Torreón de Cojimar

Ernest Hemingway Monument

Reinaldo Paseiro Velodrome

Comments

kjfitz

@ 2006-03-13 10:34:52

He doesn't site his sources but someone at the GE forums says it was a SAM site but is now a playground.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/258378/page/vc/vc/1

Parabellum

@ 2006-03-13 15:03:49

Classic shape for a SAM site.

http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~pacrange/s1/usrGuide/usrTgt/UsrTgt22.htm

romulusnr

@ 2006-03-13 15:20:54

It looks an awful lot like a pagan Sabbat circle.

romulusnr

@ 2006-03-13 15:27:22

The SAM site views I've been able to find are all six-pointed and symmetrical, this one's five and not.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A//www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_389.shtml&ei=V-MVROqOMqPaqQKO3unTCA&sig2=VVYTEPXmQgY_Aq_MavqhQw

http://images.google.com/images?q=cuban+sam+site&btnG=Search&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

romulusnr

@ 2006-03-13 17:56:18

City appears to be Tarara.

cthippo

@ 2010-09-18 02:55:39

Definatly a former SAM site. The number of launchers per site would vary depending on the capabilities of the guidance radar and how many missiles we carried by each launcher. The 6 launcher type were for SA2 missiles which only had a single missile on each launcher. Not sure what type these may gave been.