| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| 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. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-04 19:36:30 | Checkers | The pattern is the result of logging and reseeding. The darker squares (1/4 mile to a side) are older growth, the medium squares are partially regrown, and the lightest areas are the most recently... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-04 06:21:53 | Tacoma Museum of Glass | Museum of Glass? Is that located anywhere near the World's Largest Ball of Twine? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-03 21:12:39 | Stabilization Thrusters On Supertanker? | Another clue that they are not bow thrusters is that the thrusters are only used to position the tanker when entering or leaving port. If it was doing either of these evolutions there would have... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-03 21:10:42 | Stabilization Thrusters On Supertanker? | It was a reasonable guess. You recognized that there was something discharging near the bow and, based on your experience, thrusters were a reasonable assumption. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-03 12:40:22 | Stabilization Thrusters On Supertanker? | I guess it works better if I log in BEFORE I post a comment, eh? |
| Analogman | 2005-11-03 12:29:22 | Iranian F-14 Fighter | Yep, F-14. It's parked on the engine test pad in the maintenance area. (The parking area is to the south, in the covered hangars). The cleared area behind the aircraft is a result of hot exaust... |
| Analogman | 2005-11-02 07:18:20 | Lake Lines | They appear to be marks on the roll of film, perhaps from the processing machine. |
| Analogman | 2005-11-01 06:41:51 | El Dorado Energy Plant | They are, indeed, cooling water ponds. They appear black because the ponds are lined with dark plastic to prevent water seeping into the ground. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-29 21:49:54 | Pair of Liybian MIG-25 Foxbats | I think the TU-22 is unused/abandoned because of where it is parked. Since there is no real threat to the Libyan Air Force it would be odd to park a functional aircraft in the dirt next to a... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-29 12:28:10 | Pair of Liybian MIG-25 Foxbats | There is an apparenlty unused Tu-22 parked in the dirt just off of the circular disperasal pad at 32.893570,13.267847 |
| Analogman | 2005-10-29 12:20:14 | Pair of Liybian MIG-25 Foxbats | There are three more MiG-25s parked on the apron to the east and what look like a pair of MiG-23s in desert camouflage and, parked in the SE dispersal area you can see seven more MiG-25s and a pair... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-29 12:14:58 | Pair of Liybian MIG-25 Foxbats | Those aren't Mirage F-1s. The F-1 has swept back wings at both the leading AND trailing edge where as the plane in the image has swept leading edges but straight trailing edges. The aircraft in the... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-27 07:36:17 | Khatamin Air Base | That's Khatamin Air Base, sometimes seen as Esfahan or Isfahan Air Base because of it's proximity to the city of Esfahan, home to F-4s and some army aviation units. If the image was higher... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-25 18:34:36 | Hulk of an old battleship | It's not just the turrets but the magazines, ammo handling rooms, and equipment to rotate and power the turrets. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 20:08:37 | Hulk of an old battleship | Unfortunately, none of the ships on that list fit the ship in the photo. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 19:47:04 | Hulk of an old battleship | The USS Cabot was an aircraft carrier and, as such, would have no turret wells.
You can find a picture of the mostly cut up Cabot here: ... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 16:34:27 | az-Zubayr naval missile assembly and storage facility | If you ever have questions on this kind of stuff you can e-mail me. I do this for a living so I recognize a lot of these places like you might recognize a picture of your house or office. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 16:26:20 | az-Zubayr naval missile assembly and storage facility | Thanks. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 09:53:26 | Pair of Bar Lock early warning radar | Your looking at a pair of "Bar Lock" early warning radar, most often seen near an SA-5 site but they also appear near SA-2s. They are parked atop mounds of earth to get them higher off of the ground... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 09:42:58 | Korean Tanks? | Too small to be tanks. They're only about 15 feet long and roughly 6 or 7 wide. Trucks, perhaps, but not tanks. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 09:37:58 | Disassembled Maritime Crane | Given the location of this facility and the surounding area I believe this might be portions of a drilling rig instead of a crane. Just my two-cents worth. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 09:25:53 | Destroyed facility at Coastal Airbase | I don't think that's a helicopter. I measured one of the "blades" and it indicates a rotor diameter of 110 feet, much larger than any Iraqi helicopter.
I'd guess it's either some... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-24 09:07:20 | az-Zubayr naval missile assembly and storage facility | This is the az-Zubayr naval missile assembly and storage facility. The cross-shaped building to the west of the helo pads WAS, prior to the war, the missile assembly building. It is now... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-19 08:33:07 | MIG In Scrap Heap | Good place for it. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-14 13:14:31 | Italian baseball stadium | Baseball is becoming more popular in Europe, especially in towns with U.S. military bases. There is a U.S. Army facility on the other side of town, Caserma Ederle, home of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-14 09:36:36 | Airplane with fifteen mile long contrail | I drew a line along the contrail, then stretched it out. It certainly looks like a great circle route from northern Europe. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-14 08:30:27 | Airplane with fifteen mile long contrail | ROFLMAO! Dude, you have WAAAAAAY too much free time on your hands. No wonder your wife is pinging on you to get a different hobby.
BTW, you're right about this being a satellite... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-13 11:33:11 | North Korean bunkers | Bunkers, possibly ammunition storage. They appear to be mounds of earth inside a fenced enclosure with well used roads leading to the compound.
Mounded earth = trying to protect... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-11 18:43:43 | North Korean AAA | Probably KS-19s in the large facility and S-60s in the two smaller ones. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-11 11:52:18 | North Korean Military Base with AAA Batteries | Their size and general shape lead me to believe they are KS-19s, radar-controlled 100mm AAA guns. The North Koreans have thousands of these guns, which make up a big portion of their air defense... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-11 08:20:22 | North Korean Military Base with AAA Batteries | Not SA-2s but rather AAA guns, possibly KS-19s (100 mm) or S-60s (57 mm). They look similar and there's not enough resolution in this image to tell for sure. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-10 21:12:13 | Iranian Hawk missile battery | Good shot. You can clearly see the radar on the SE mound and the launchers on the other two. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-10 20:37:11 | C-802 coastal defense cruise missile site | Looks like it might be the C-802 coastal defense cruise missile site. Notice the paved area in the northern edge of the pinched waist portion of the base? It looks like there is a large... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-10 20:33:37 | Iranian Hawk missile battery | Good find. The Iranians are really quite worried that the Israelis will pull an Osirak job on them. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-10 20:31:27 | Iranian Hawk missile battery | That narrow mound in your thumbnail photo holds the radar. You can always find the important stuff by following the faint, narrow footpaths worn into the ground by the maintenance guys walking... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-10 20:25:46 | Bushehr I-HAWK missile site | This is the Bushehr I-HAWK site, and it's still occupied. The two launcher sites, the paved areas that look a bit like flattened baseball diamonds, each hold a launcher for three I-HAWK missiles. ... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 20:15:25 | Openings Into North Korean Mountain | LOL! Yep, pretty much, although I'm not getting paid THAT much. I'm getting ready to retire from the Navy at the end of this year. I've got a job with a private company doing exactly what I'm doing... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 17:58:02 | Airplane over North Korea 1 | They appear to be AN-2 "Colt"s from the nearby airfield. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 17:14:27 | Openings Into North Korean Mountain | No problem. I look at this kind of stuff all day at work so I tend to notice things that others might not think of. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 17:13:30 | Well Camouflaged Fighter at Taechon Airbase | It certainly LOOKS like some sort of aircraft. If you can get a clean shot of the outline you can measure the length and wingspan and then see if the measurements match any of the aircraft in North... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 17:07:04 | Openings Into North Korean Mountain | These openings, and any opening into a hillside like this, is called an adit.
Your assumption is correct, this is not a mine. A mine would have larger adits, signs of heavy vehicle... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 07:39:32 | Iraqi AAA battery | Most likely S-60s (57mm). They're pretty close to the airfield and the layout looks like right. The five horseshoes would hold the guns and the small mound of dirt to the south would hold the "Flap... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 07:32:53 | Iraqi bunker | Look at the size of the fenced in area. This thing must be pretty big, underground. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-07 07:30:40 | Iraqi SA-2 site | You're getting pretty good at IDing these things. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-06 15:15:40 | North Korean military base | The 3 rows of 7 look like camouflaged netting over roofs, or possibly frames. It's likely the area is a parking area for vehicles and parking them under canopies prevents them from being easily... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 19:05:41 | Well Camouflaged Fighter at Taechon Airbase | Methinks those are not planes but more likely AAA guns or, less likely, missiles. If they were aircraft there'd be some sort of taxiway or tow road to get the planes to the runway. These revetments... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 19:01:56 | North Korean Aircraft with Drone | It is a trick of lighting. Their is only one plane there. The aircraft in revetments look like AN-2 Colts, piston-powered, bi-plane transports used for, among other things, sneaking covert agents... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 18:55:51 | 50 Mwe Reactor at Yongbyon | That's a sizeable capacity for producing weapons grade fissile material. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 12:58:35 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | The North Koreans have had some problems maintaining their Soviet systems since the breakup of the USSR and the resulting lack of technical support. They don't have all that many functioning SAM... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 12:56:45 | AAA battery | Probably AAA, 57mm or bigger, most likely positioned to guard the nearby airbase |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 12:42:41 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | This might be of some assistance:
http://www.fas.org/news/dprk/1999/m0326l09.htm
"The 10... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 12:40:16 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | North Korean SAMs are mostly SA-2. SA-3, and SA-5 systems, all former Soviet equipment and generally laid out in the same patterns as you've seen in Iraq, Libya, and Egypt. If you see one, you'll... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 12:34:21 | Offshore platforms in Tokyo bay | They're dredges, possibly working on the Tokyo cross bay tunnel. The southern and northernmost dredges have large hopper-bottomeded barges tied alongside, to receive the spoils (mud, dirt, and... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 08:39:00 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | I suppose HTML abuse was inevitible. Too bad really, it is quite useful. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 08:38:22 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | Must be my lucky day. I found another, unclassified satellite image at Global Security showing "A close up of one of the 22 anti-aircraft artillery batteries protecting the Yongbyon Nuclear... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 08:31:08 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | Well, just DARN IT!
... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-05 08:29:54 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | If there's that many it is likely they are not SAMs but rather AAA sites. I did some checking this morning and the big facility at the bend of the river IS the nuclear fuels processing facility... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-04 20:02:02 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | I'll do some research tomorrow at work and see what I can find out about these two sites and the industrial facility in the valley in between. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-04 19:57:00 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | This one is odd too. It's on the north side of the mountain but the threat is from the south. If these were missiles they're way out of position to defend anything. Also, missile sites are usually... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-04 19:42:13 | North Korean anti-aircraft artillery battery | Just my two-cents but I don't think that's a SAM site. It isn't configured like any SAM site I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few of them. The location is not very good and there are just too... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-03 19:50:35 | Helicopter Departing Camp Babylon | Looks like an AH-64. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 16:54:51 | SA-2 missile battery | Thank you. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 15:17:24 | SA-2 missile battery | This one appears to be an SA-2 battery, split to better cover a particular section of the compass. The northern three revetments are empty but the southern three appear to have SA-2 launchers in... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 13:41:46 | SA-3 missile site | SA-3 site. Four launchers, in revetments, plus the notches for the wheels, visible in the open end of the U. Those are where the reloader vehicle parks when reloading the launchers, in this case... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 13:38:52 | Armed SA-2 missile site | There's also an adjacent AAA site on the SW side of the base. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 13:36:04 | Large communications facility | Definitely military communications. Mix of HF, LF, and some cell towers. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 12:40:16 | Plane shaped shadow near The Boneyard | It looks like the shadow of a large electrical transmission tower. It's not a plane, especially because it's heading 90 degrees off of any runway heading. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 12:36:10 | Ship with floating barrier around it | Reasonable guess. It looks like there is a barge tied up directly aft of the small ship, possibly offloading/onloadin oil. The squarish, orange boat directly to the east looks like an oil... |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 12:31:07 | Platform in harbour | Pedastal base for some sort of oil rig? |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 12:20:04 | Lake near Abu Ghraib Prison | Good call, Anonymous (If that's your real name!) Most likely a windy day, causing minor chop on the water. The wave faces make multiple reflections, causing the effect you see here. |
| Analogman | 2005-10-01 12:16:58 | Broken B-52s | More planes sitting in storage in the desert than most countries have in their entire Air Force. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-28 17:56:31 | Radar (?) | Yeah, most likely an early warning radar, possibly also an air traffic control setup. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-27 14:06:10 | Missiles? | You're welcome. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 10:36:03 | Supertanker off of Rio De Janeiro | That's a big one...275 meters. That's a whole lotta crude oil. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 10:32:30 | Iraqi MIG-23s Pushed Aside | MiG-23s. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 10:27:43 | Missiles? | The missiles would have been in the six revetments arranged in a circle. The ones outside the site might contain command and control vehicles. SA-2 usually have six launchers, arranged in a rough... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 10:18:11 | Beni Suef Air Base | And a third about 2,500 meters NE of the base, near the narrow part of the dirt area. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 10:14:25 | Beni Suef Air Base | There are two abandoned SA-2 sites in the ear-shaped patch of dirt to the west. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-26 07:45:16 | Missiles? | Yep, it's an SA-2 site, now unoccupied. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-25 10:18:28 | GO WINGS (also D54 Nike missile site) | Hockey fans, apparently. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-25 10:16:03 | Decoy Aircraft Painted On Airstrip | The Soviets used to do this, and they passed the technique on to the North Koreans, North Vietnamese, and many other countries. Apparently it was quite effective as it it supposedly very difficult... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-25 10:11:45 | Giant Running Man near bomb craters | Pedestrian overpass. The site appears to have been, in better times, a recreation facility. Note the four tennis courts just north of the bridge? The area immediately east of the bridge appears to... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-23 16:32:04 | Iranian Naval Vessels In Port | Kaman and Houdong missile patrol boats and a couple of old, WWII vintage destroyers. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-22 18:38:54 | Surface to air missile site near Iranian nuclear plant | Looks like an I-HAWK battery. The U.S. sold quite a few of these to Iran before 1979 and they've managed to keep them up and running, no doubt through clandestine sales from U.S. companies. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-22 18:26:31 | Libyan SA-5 / S-200 missile site | This is one of two SA-5 sites in Libya, the other being near Sirte, just south of the airport. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-22 18:24:11 | Libyan SA-5 / S-200 missile site | This is absolutely, positively NOT an SA-4 site. It IS, however, absolutely, positively an SA-5 site. The SA-4 is a mobile missile mounted in pairs on a tracked vehicle.
The gray... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:49:01 | Tajoura Nuclear Research Centre | I look at satellite imagery for a living, so I tend to notice things that others may not. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:37:54 | Tajoura Nuclear Research Centre | Just to the NW of the main gate is what appears to be a housing area, possibly for the scientists, complete with a mosque. (The building with the blue dome on the western end of the housing area) |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:34:53 | Tajoura Nuclear Research Centre | Interesting facility. Probably military R&D and, in Libya, that means missiles. The college campus-like layout would indicate just that, an academic institution. The security means classified... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:20:43 | Armed Libyan SA-3 missile site | Look at 30.996740,16.624203 |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:20:18 | Armed Libyan SA-3 missile site | Good find. There is also an SA-5 site just south of the airport near the coastal town of Sirte. Unfortunately, there is no high resolution coverage of the site, just the blurry stuff. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 10:07:07 | Abandoned Egyptian Military SA-3 Missile Site | This one is also probably an SA-3 site. Soviet doctrine, which Egypt adopted, often had multiple sites around high value targets. The equipment is moved every so often to prevent potential enemies... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 09:58:33 | Abandoned Egyptian Military SA-3 Missile Site | Actually, you're looking at an SA-3 site instead of an SA-2. Some of the big indicators are:
1) Four launcher revetments instead of six. At the site to the south you can see the... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 09:28:29 | Airborne UH-1 helicopter at Merrill Field | It's a UH-1 Huey. There's also a CH-53 on the tarmac. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-21 09:21:28 | Naval Hovercraft | Cobra Gold is a big exercise but one would expect to see far more activity than just one LCAC. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-15 07:28:10 | Heavy Smoke Outside Airbase | It looks to be the trash dump. The black smoke suggests burning of petroleum products or perhaps tires. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-14 06:54:32 | Destroyed Iraqi bridge | Yep, that's precision bombing for you. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-12 09:44:27 | One Berm, One Bomb | Judging from the complete lack of craters outside of the revetments I'd venture a guess that whatever was inside the berms was blown in place. Even with the most accurate laser or GPS guided bombs... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-10 19:20:35 | Iraqi aircraft in the sand | Due north of the NW end of the runway you'll see eight Il-28 Beagle light bombers. Probably haven't flown in years. |
