| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Analogman | 2006-07-03 14:50:38 | Running Track and ? | If it's a school for young boys they could be 1/2 scale football pitches. A school near my house has something similar for the 5-8 yr olds. |
| Analogman | 2006-07-03 10:30:29 | 4 in Drydock, port d'Alger | Looks like two OSA PTGs, a NANUCHKA II-class corvette, and another patrol boat. |
| Analogman | 2006-07-03 10:18:12 | Ilyushin Il-38 May at Severomorsk-1 Base | There are also several Be-12 [i]Mail[/i] ASW amphibians in the shot. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-26 08:55:17 | Airline taxi trainer | I believe that is an airliner taxi trainer. It has a 777 cabin on a motorized frame that allows trainees to get the feel of how an airliner handles on the ground. The cockpit is at the same height... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-26 08:43:09 | Strange towers | I agree with Anonymous, they look to be brick kilns. The city of Dhaka has somewhere around 4,000 brick kilns.
There's a good picture of one of these kilns here: ... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 16:44:45 | 2006-06-23 - Minuteman II site E-9 attacked by clowns | They'd have been hammering until Judgement Day and they still wouldn't have gotten through the silo cover. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 16:41:53 | 3 Helicopters at San Antonio de los Baños Base | More Mi-8/17s |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 16:40:34 | Helicopter in flight over Air Force Base | Mi-8/17 |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 16:38:55 | Airplane on approach | Looks like a Czech-made Aero L-39 Albatross trainer. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 16:30:40 | Tupolev Tu-22M bombers at Olenegorsk Air Base | Did you ever wonder why military bases and other important features are imaged in high-res but the surrounding areas are not? When you look at Google Maps or Google Earth you've undoubtedly noticed... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 10:21:51 | Unknown Aircraft at Sondok | Quite possibly an Li-2. It would be impossible to tell from this image but they're essentially the same plane. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 10:20:52 | Statue of Dear Leader | Keeps 'em guessing, eh? |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 10:20:24 | Armed SA-2 missile battery in North Korea | It looks like an SAM site, with four launchers and a radar in the center. Four launcher sites are typically SA-3s but it is not uncommon to see SA-2s with only four launchers, and these look like... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 03:29:33 | Statue of Dear Leader | I've got that same statue, 1/2 scale, in my back yard. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-23 03:28:14 | Unknown Aircraft at Sondok | The aircraft in the image is a DC-3/C-47, sitting next to what appears to be some sort of catch basin with pumps and piping. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-22 10:11:03 | Naked sunbath | Great! All of this technology and you find the one naked DUDE in the photo. Bummer! |
| Analogman | 2006-06-22 05:37:52 | Strange lines on a mountain | Here's the gouge I found. The circular area with the planes in the middle is a missile impact test target, used to test the warhead effectiveness of Chinese missiles. The planes and other objects... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-22 03:43:38 | Training silos for Peacekeeper missiles | According to a former SAC missile guy here at the office, the site we're looking at is the training area for the missile technicians. The silo mock-up on the right is a Minuteman III site and the one... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 16:33:30 | Air Force Base of Marrakech - Menara (GMMX) | Even caught a C-130 on the runway. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 16:30:14 | Horse and sulky on racetrack | I believe that would be a sulky, the name given to the cart pulled behind the horse in harness racing. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 15:45:23 | Strange lines on a mountain | WOW!, those are some freakish facilities. They look like some sort of military test area, but I don't know what for. I think the circular thing, with the planes in the center, might be an... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 15:12:41 | 2cv Citroën | Atrocious little cars, no? |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 15:10:13 | Training silos for Peacekeeper missiles | The Peacekeepers are all gone now, part of the START II treaty provisions, but the advanced warheads will likely be moved to the existing Minuteman III missiles when they are downsized from five... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 14:50:34 | Minsk | Technically, she isn't an aircraft carrier but rather is classed as a heavy aircraft carrying cruiser (CVHG). This was done to get around a provision of the Montreaux Treaty (the treaty governing... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 14:47:05 | Strange lines on a mountain | If I were a betting man I'd put my money on the lines being an overlay on the image. They're just too straight and the corners are too perfectly square for the lines to actually be painted on the... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 06:20:38 | Wind patterns around Oil Tanker | It's not leaking. The dark area is a calm area caused by the ship acting as a wind break. The wind, coming from the north in this image, is blocked by the ship so it doesn't cause the ripples seen... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-21 06:12:37 | Conveyor belt at Black Thunder coal mine | I got your back, dawg! |
| Analogman | 2006-06-19 08:43:36 | Conveyor belt at Black Thunder coal mine | That appears to be the Black Thunder coal mine, near the town of Wright, Wyoming. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-19 08:20:47 | Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH) | I stand corrected. I was talking recently to a friend who is stationed at AFSOUTH, now called Joint Forces Command - Naples, and the Flamingo Club was, and still is, on the hill above the pool. The... |
| Analogman | 2006-06-19 08:15:15 | Indian Air Force Base of Chandigarh (VICG) | They're Russian-built Il-76s. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-14 08:04:56 | Russian Kirov class heavy missile cruiser | Pretty cool. Ten years ago you would've had to have a very high security clearance to have seen a satellite photo such as this. |
| Analogman | 2006-06-08 09:41:07 | Large ship in the River Plate | It's a Ro/Ro car transporter. The cars are loaded (rolled on) and unloaded (rolled off) via a large ramp at the rear and/or the side, hence the name. |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 18:20:31 | EC-135A 'Rivet Digger' | That is certainly an old airframe. Notice the old style turbojet engines? All of the rebuilt/upgraded -135s have more modern turbofans. Possibly, but not likely, an NC but more likely an RC testing... |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:57:26 | CH-53E Helicopter In Flight Off Hawaii | Looks like a CH-53E, probably from MCAS Kaneohe, just to the SSW of the helo. |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:53:21 | MH-53E Sea Dragon | That would be an MH-53E Sea Dragon. They tow the mine hunting sleds. The big giveaway that this is an MH and not a CH is the presence of the oversized fuel sponsons on the sides of the fuselage. |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:46:07 | Coast Guard Helicopter in flight | Not an Apache. The horizontal tailplanes on an Apache are much further aft than the ones on the helo in the photo. Could be a UH-60 as the aircraft is located just north of both McGuire AFB and... |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:28:41 | Allied Forces Southern Europe (AFSOUTH) | The Flamingo club is the building east of the main compound and south of the football field (looks like it has a big, white tent in the middle). It's the building with the green pool on the north... |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:25:04 | Cuban SA-2 missile site | Looks like SA-2s. |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:23:43 | Armed Bulgarian SA-2 missile site | Good call. There might be a future for you in the image interpretation business yet. |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:21:42 | Baseball in Britain? | The site appears to be some sort of sports club or site. It is quite possibly a pitch for rounders, a game similar to baseball.
You're right about baseball diamonds at bases with... |
| Analogman | 2006-05-06 17:16:36 | F-35 at Fort Worth NAS | Nope, not an F-15. Definitely an F-35 V/STOL variant. |
| Analogman | 2006-04-29 03:03:36 | Andreyeva Guba | Not a submarine but rather a surface ship rolled over on it's starboard side. You can make out the superstructure and funnel on the seaward end of the ship. |
| Analogman | 2006-04-29 02:59:01 | Airplane (F-15) In flight | Yep, F-15. The U.S. has 'em stationed in Japan and the Japanese fly 'em too. |
| Analogman | 2006-04-10 08:02:39 | Fast Attack Submarine (SSN) | It seems tiny compared to the CVN on the other side of the pier. |
| Analogman | 2006-04-10 07:51:43 | Polaris Missile | That's the U.S. Navy's training center at Dam Neck, Virginia. They teach fire control and radar related repair and maintenance courses there. It is also the host base for the Navy & Marine Corps... |
| Analogman | 2006-04-01 01:44:19 | DUKW Convert Tour Vehicle Entering Water | Actually, it looks like it's leaving the water. You can even see the wet tire tracks coming up the ramp. |
| Analogman | 2006-03-21 15:05:05 | Self-propelled artillery | They look like M-110 8" guns, the kind that were capable of firing nuclear shells. They could also be M-107 175mm guns. |
| Analogman | 2006-03-09 15:43:36 | North Korean Missiles near Airbase | Just my two-cents worth but they don't look like either missiles or helicopters. They're in the middle of a field and are probably just storage tanks of some sort. They remind me of a propane... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-22 11:01:08 | USS Arizona (BB-39) Memorial | This image gives a good idea of the relative size of the Arizona< commissioned in 1916 and the Missouri, commissioned in 1944. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-22 10:51:06 | RAF Mildenhall | RAF Lakenheath is about 5 km to the northeast. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-13 08:52:28 | USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) amphibious assault ship | That's actually the USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). The Belleau Wood is LHA 3 and is in San Diego, where it was decommissioned in September.
The easiest way to tell a Tarawa-class LHA from a... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-13 08:44:51 | Big Wake in Boca | That is probably a NO WAKE zone but hey, when you're rich the law only applies to the little guy. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-11 17:41:14 | University of Phoenix Stadium | They'll never get one with the Cardinals. They should have at least changed the name to something more Arizona-sounding. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-11 17:39:51 | Submarine at sea | Los Angeles class? |
| Analogman | 2005-12-09 21:00:43 | Jacksonville Air Naitional Guard Airpark | The lower two are an F-102 (note the shadow of the pointed tail? F-102s had pointed vertical stabs and -106s had squared off stabs, also, 106 was longer than the 102), and an F-15 (twin engines... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-09 16:52:17 | Enchanted Island at Encanto Park | I used to go to Encanto a lot when I was a kid. They had a pretty good amusement park, at least for a 9 year old. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-09 16:50:53 | University of Phoenix Stadium | So now they'll suck in a new stadium instead of sucking in Sun Devil stadium? |
| Analogman | 2005-12-08 09:42:45 | UAE Coastal Defenses | There is an interesting patch of high res imagery about 120 miles SW of the inland missile site. It doesn't show up on Google Maps but it is on Google Earth. There is a military airfield and just to... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-08 09:35:23 | UAE Coastal Defenses | Could be, but not an ideal place to put CDCMs. However, it could be a SAM battery setup to protect the approaches to Abu Dhabi from Iran and the east. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-07 09:38:19 | UAE Coastal Defenses | Most likely. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-06 07:38:17 | Supertanker at rest | Looks like he's anchored, waiting to pull into port and unload. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 21:23:19 | Hunter's Point Crane with rocket test assembly | Hunter's Point is in one of the worst neighborhoods in San Francisco. I was there for about 8 or 9 months in 1987. The buses and taxis wouldn't go there after dark and we were advised not to stop at... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 21:19:01 | A-4 Skyhawk at the side entrance to Alameda Naval Air Station | I was at NAS Alameda from '85 - '89, onboard Carl Vinson. I'll have to dig up some pictures and scan 'em for you. |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 11:36:04 | Amos Fly Ash Pond | "Contaminated" is probably a major understatement! |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 11:12:04 | P-3C Orions | Interesting photo and a good illustration of how pattern analysis is done. You can see there are nine P-3 parking spots, with the DANGER - PROPELLER areas painted on the tarmac. You'll notice that... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 11:03:58 | Pt. Mugu Missile Park | Good picture. The F-4 at the top of the display area is the famous black chase plane with the Playboy bunny on the tail. It was used for many years before the bunny became un-PC and was removed in... |
| Analogman | 2005-12-04 10:59:25 | Brazilian military facility | It's almost certainly storage for explosives. Sometimes very volatile substances, white phosphorous or dynamite for example, are stored in above ground buildings that appear to be rather flimsy. ... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-29 18:00:20 | Barlock Early Warning Radar? | Normally, yes, it would be excessive. However comma these were visible from the exclusive Lake Tharthar compound, playground and summer homes of Baath Party elites. It is quite possible they were... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-28 17:05:43 | Barlock Early Warning Radar? | I don't see any equipment on top of the mounds, but they could quite posibly be meant to hold radar. I can't think of too many reasons to build large mounds with roads leading up the side, unless... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-26 18:55:04 | Two DC-3s in enclosed area of Cape Town Airport | It's almost certainly military in nature. The fenced in area is pretty big, there are guard towers at the four corners, and there are lots of hangars and parking space but few airplanes. They... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 20:22:13 | Helicopter in flight | Looks like a Navy H-3, probably out of nearby NAS Pensacola.
Sikorsky H-3: ... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 20:09:28 | Broken MiG | That one used to be a MiG-25. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 19:52:58 | Partially assembled Libyan SA-3 missile site | No problem. Keep 'em coming. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 15:33:48 | Partially assembled Libyan SA-3 missile site | Close, but it's an SA-3 site, not SA-2s. The launchers are quad-rail versions, and the radar in the center of the site is a "Low Blow" missile control radar. 125 meters NNW of the radar you can... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 15:18:43 | Armed Libyan SA-2 missile site | Yep, it's an SA-2 site. The cluster of vehicles in the center is the site control center and the single vehicle on the right of that cluster is the "Fan Song" missile control radar. The group of... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-23 15:11:24 | Possible coastal defense missile site | I don't think it's a SAM site. It could be a coastal defense missile site. Just north of the marker icon is a vehicle that looks like it could be a CDCM launch vehicle. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-19 16:11:09 | Romanian coal fired power plant | Yep, coal fired plant. It does not appear to generate electricity. Notice the absence of any substantial transformer substation or high-tension power lines? There are, however, several above... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-19 16:04:57 | Romanian MiG-21s | Just northwest of these -21s, about 200 meters, you can see the engine test area. Notice the elongated fan-shaped area caused by hot engine exhaust. Also, the red vehicle appears to be a fire truck. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-19 15:59:30 | Former Romanian AAA site | Probably AAA. It's too close to the end of the runway for a missile site. This would have been either 37 or 57 mm AAA for last ditch defense against low flying planes and helicopters attacking the... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-18 14:32:26 | MiG-21 and Su-20/22 at Taszar air base | The lower plane is a MiG-21, the upper one appears to be a Su-20/22. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-15 09:32:41 | Line of craters | Typically, when bombing to cut a road, it is done at a bridge or in a confined area so it's difficult to fix. If you bomb a road in the desert it's easy for the other guys to simply drive around the... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-14 13:04:18 | Line of craters | I think they're test holes dug while searching for something. There are far too many to be bomb craters, there is no reasonable target and no debris from a previously existing target, and the top... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-12 21:08:47 | Joyce Kilmer Elementary School | I bet they have really nice trees there! |
| Analogman | 2005-11-12 21:06:53 | China - Hong Kong border crossing | Interesting photo. The parking lot/inspection station on the north side of the river, near the circular on ramp, appears to be where they switch from driving on the right to driving on the left. ... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-12 20:56:22 | Dome at plant | It looks like the Inland Pipe plant, owned by Lehigh, in Alberta.
http://www.lehighinland.com/inland/ |
| Analogman | 2005-11-12 07:48:26 | Thai (Chinese?) Cemetery | Interesting. All of the white shapes fan out down hill. This could be some sort of mining operation...possibly salt or phosphate? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-11 17:21:37 | Manito Elementary School | I ran into the shed at the south end of the parking lot behind the school. Got a big bump on my head and bent the sled up.
There also used to be a baseball/kickball field where the... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-11 17:16:36 | Dome at plant | Looks like a cement plant, possibly the Lehigh facility. The dome keeps the dry ingredients dry. They are transported up the conveyors to the horizontal rotary mixer/kiln at the top center of the... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-11 17:04:06 | Camp Yaw-Paw | I lived on Oneida. I went to Manito in K, 1st, and 2nd grade. Of course, that was back in the stone ages, or '71-'74. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-09 08:41:44 | Camp Yaw-Paw | I remember going here as a Cub Scout in the early '70s. I lived right down the road in Oakland. My best friend broke his arm when he fell out of a tree there. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 19:59:29 | Multi-thruster boat in Clarence Strait | He's moving rather quickly. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 18:50:44 | Odd floats in man made inlet | It's possible, but they really don't look like spill booms. The curved object at the mouth of the loch looks more like a spill boom. Besides, this is a coal fired power plant (note the coal train... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 17:03:34 | Multi-thruster boat in Clarence Strait | Nothing so fancy. It's simply the wake of a 30-foot power boat. the middle wake is the prop wash and the outer two are the edges of the wake. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 17:01:48 | Odd floats in man made inlet | Fish farm related? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 16:55:37 | Odd floats in man made inlet | You can see where they are making more on the left side of the loch. One set is under construction (4 of 5 attached) and several 90 foot sections of framing with 5 attach points for the "floats". |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 16:37:11 | Ship in trouble | The above ship is not listing, it's merely an optical illusion created by the backward look angle. The photo was taken after the camera had passed overhead and was looking backward from the... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-07 06:56:23 | Ship in trouble | What leads you to believe the ship is in trouble? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-06 10:19:36 | North Korean Radio Telescope (?) | SatCom? Perhaps for tracking satellites? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-06 10:16:36 | Strange trace in the desert | Soot from an oil well fire. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-06 10:14:46 | Very Tall North Korean Tower | Looks to be a communications facility. Looks like a Yagi-type HF antenna. |
