| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Analogman | 2005-09-10 19:11:12 | Iraqi aircraft in the sand | Those are two MiG-29s and a lone Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft, the Soviet version of the A-10. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-09 21:22:18 | Target aircraft | Part of the Saylor Creek aerial gunnery range. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-09 21:08:19 | "Crows Feet" etched into Surface To Air Site | It's an abandonded SA-2 site. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-08 18:42:26 | Former NSA Naples | Yeah, it is odd. My daughter was born at the old hospital, up the hill from the schools and the exchange/commissary. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-08 18:41:08 | Unusual bunker complex | Not a SAM site though, unless it's for training. No foreign SAM sites have seven launchers, four or six is the norm. Also, each of those revetments has several tall antennas on the berms making it... |
| Analogman | 2005-09-08 18:26:57 | Simulated LHD | It serves the Marine helo squadrons at Camp Pendelton and MCAS Miramar. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-08 18:21:54 | Radomes on Fort Belvoir | Yes, those domes house all manner of satellite antenna, possibly NSA but not necessarily. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-07 11:23:13 | MI-8 Helicopter | The helo in the thumbnail is an Mi-8. The one to the east appears to be an Mi-17. The one to the south appears to be another Mi-8. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-06 11:16:45 | Two rescue helicopters on cloverleaf near storm damage | The smaller of the two is an UH-60 Blackhawk and the larger is a CH-53 Sea Stallion. |
| Analogman | 2005-09-01 11:23:47 | Flagler Memorial | Henry Flagler is the man responsible for building the Overseas Railroad linking Key West, then Florida's largest city, with the mainland in 1912. The railroad, almost totally destroyed by the Labor... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-31 20:48:48 | MH-60 helo with a firefighting bucket slung underneath | That's an MH-60 with a firefighting bucket slung underneath (see the shadow?) He's proably training for, or actually fighting, a forest fire. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-31 20:09:36 | Jets on former U.S. Air Force's Clark AFB | That's the former U.S. Air Force's Clark AFB, northwest of Manila and northeast of the Navy base at Subic Bay. The planes in the revetments appear to be F-8 Crusaders and those on the parking... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-30 18:24:04 | Russian Special Operations and Counterterrorist Forces barracks | The building in the NE looks to be a parking structure. The circular towers at the corners are probably ramps. One for up, the other for down. There is obviously an athletic field with a track and... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-30 13:48:50 | SA-10 surface to air missile site | Good shot of the "Flap Lid" radar. You can clearly see the shape of the antenna by looking at the shadow. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-30 09:03:14 | SA-10 surface to air missile site | Yep, it's an SA-10 site. The transporters are also the launchers. The missile is carried in canisters, much like the American Patriot system. The two tall radars you see are the "Clam Shell"... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-29 21:01:28 | Russian Backfire Bomber | Looks like a Tu-26, the maritime patrol/attack version of the Tu-22.
|
| Analogman | 2005-08-28 19:18:01 | Steamship William G Mather | Classic Great Lakes ore freighter. Beautiful ships. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-28 19:15:56 | Red, white and blue tarp | Salt or sand. You can see evenly spaced white dots along the red and blue stripes. They're probably weights to keep the tarp down. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-28 13:43:30 | Odd covering on Iraqi airstrip | Fresh tar. You can see two vehicles in the center of the black square. Possibly repaving trucks. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-27 11:23:40 | Object in the open sea | The vessel is almost 600 feet long. It's almost certainly not a submarine but rather a blurry shot of a merchant vessel. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-27 11:15:38 | Naval ships being scrapped | The ship in the center notch on the south side of the channel is a Knox-class frigate. The one to the east appears to be what's left of a Leahy-class guided missile cruiser. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-27 10:42:17 | Air Force One & Marine One mock-ups | The Air Force One mockup appears to be of the older 707. It's too small to be a partial 747. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-23 20:07:59 | Unusual canal | Fish farming??? |
| Analogman | 2005-08-22 14:48:11 | USS Peleliu (LHA-5) | Google Earth has a more recent shot of that pier. The USS Tarawa (LHA 1) is tied up there now. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-22 14:46:33 | B-17G above former Bomber Gas | That thing needs to be properly restored by a qualified facility. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-22 10:29:07 | Tanks in the mud | Not tanks. The shadows don't look like tanks. They might not even be tracked vehicles. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-22 10:26:08 | Patterns in the desert | It's a gridded search pattern. Oil exploration most likely. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-22 10:21:11 | Patterns in the desert | The dots are holes, possibly related to oil exploration. There is nothing else out here one might be looking for. the pattens of holes indicate deliberate, precise digging and the track patterns to... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-21 15:57:56 | USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) | Check out this scene on Google Earth and you'll see the large 75 on the bow of the carrier, meaning this is actually the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). |
| Analogman | 2005-08-21 15:52:46 | Dominion Blvd Drawbridge in up position | They've changed the photo at Google Earth. The bridge is now down and there is traffic on the span. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-21 08:35:40 | Helicopters on airstrip | The aircraft in the earlier Google Map and Google Earth were Iraqi aircraft. My guess is the older imagery was post GW 1 but prior to the 2003 invasion. The new stuff is obviously more recent... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-20 18:40:10 | Helicopters on airstrip | Google earth has some more recent, high quality imagery of this airfield. All of the helicopters are gone, the terminal building and hangars are rubble, and there appears to be burned out aircraft... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-19 16:49:58 | Tonopah Test Range Secret Airfield - Area 30 | The entire facility, except the runways, is double fenced. The Taxiways from the parking apron to the runways are protected by gates in the double fencing. Visible on the southern parking apron... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-18 15:13:32 | Fleet of tankers leaving Vancouver Harbour | Actually, only two are tankers. The one in the thumbnail photo with the red deck and the one to the east that is pointing in a different direction from the rest.. The rest are dry cargo carriers... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-17 20:35:22 | Underground Airplane Hangers | Not really underground, per se, but rather above ground with dirt mounded over the top of the hangar. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-17 20:19:19 | Contrail without airplane | The plane isn't in the frames to either side of the frame with the contrail. A result of using images of different ages to make the mosaic. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-17 08:35:33 | Artillery Range, Ft. Hood | Probably not artillery range, perhaps machine guns though. The bullseye area on the right is less than one mile from the firing line and each of the crossing (vetical) roads appears to have several... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-16 08:08:56 | Tanker ship outside Masset | The large pipes on deck, coupled with the lack of cargo hatches or cranes, makes this one a tanker. The small number of pipes, and their relative large size, means this ship probably carries only... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-16 08:00:13 | Barge | Not military, just a large cargo ship with a helo landing area marked out on one of the cargo hatches. This is the kind of ship that carries large, non-containerized cargo to underdeveloped ports... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-15 18:11:12 | Airplane in trouble at JFK | This appears to be an exercise. In an actual emergency one would see the emergency escape slides coming from the aircraft and the emergency vehicles would be closer. As aircraft take off and... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-14 07:28:55 | USS Peleliu (LHA-5) | Just bustin' your chops, but your high school English teacher must be having fits right about now. Your description sentence implies that the USS Peleliu deployed Marines to the beach and then flew... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-13 15:22:38 | Krivak III frigate | No worries. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-13 11:43:52 | Krivak III frigate | It's not a Sovremenny. They have the helo pad amidships, just aft of the stack. The ship in the image has it's helo deck all the way aft. The Sovremenny also carries it's pair of quad launchers for... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-13 10:44:59 | Italian Navy - Taranto Harbor | The bigger ship to the left is the Helicopter Carrier Vittorio Veneto (CGH 550). |
| Analogman | 2005-08-13 08:00:20 | Simulated SA-5 missile sites | Possibly. If you look at the map in Google Earth you can see that several of the revetments have mock-up launchers installed. Also, the cleared area to the immediate left of the launcher has a... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-13 07:52:13 | Egyptian Military SA-2 Missile Site | Yep, but I figured the Arabic name would just confuse most people, so I went with the standard SA-2. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 12:43:58 | Cargo ship off Australian coast II | Not a barge but rather a 190 meter (625 ft) cargo ship, complete with two cranes. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 12:41:53 | Freighter off Australian coast | That's hardly a barge. It's a 200 meter (660 ft.) freighter with three cranes. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 12:07:27 | Eighth Air Force Museum | Looks like a MiG-21 tucked in between the Vulcan and the B-52s. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 11:46:53 | Canadian Forces Base Stadacona | The submarine in the drydock is likely the HMCS Chicoutimi (formerly HMS Upholder). The sub suffered a fire onboard during it's trip from the UK to Canada in October of 2004. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 11:23:17 | Clear cutting the forrests | Clearcut areas for farming. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 08:51:31 | Shapes in the fields | Possible, but more likely just agricultural related. Tractor tracks and water runoff. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 08:48:32 | Simulated SA-5 missile sites | The lower middle revetment in the upper site appears to have something man-made in the middle. Perhaps a mockup of a missile launcher? |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 08:46:59 | Simulated SA-5 missile sites | This looks EXACTLY like the revetment layout for a Soviet SA-5 missile site. EXACTLY! Perhaps this was used as a training target for Air Force crews. The SA-5 is considered obsolete and, while... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 07:50:27 | Military Driving Course in Northern China | Also, the heavy, black T-shaped marks on the concrete pad at the top of the facility look like tire marks from repeated backing practice. That's where the guys learn to back a trailer into a loading... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-12 07:47:48 | Military Driving Course in Northern China | I think your guess is right on. It's a military driver training facility. Remember, in China most young men coming into the military are draftees and, in all likelyhood, have never driven a car... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-11 20:10:27 | Half of a ship? | Map glitch, probably. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-11 20:07:44 | Water Feature | Trout pond, eh? Trout farming is apparently big business in rural Manitoba. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:45:12 | USS Yorktown | The F-14 in the landing area gives you a good idea of the size of this ship and why they could never have operated F-14s from this ship. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:43:29 | USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75) | The ship in the drydock to the south is actually the USS Nassau (LHA 4). The only other LHA on the east coast, the USS Saipan (LHA 2) is up the river at the naval base. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:39:01 | USS Forrestal, USS Saratoga | Saratoga is at the top, Forrestal on the bottom. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:36:59 | USS America | It's the America. The Enterprise has a cubic shaped island, sort of like a square mushroom made out of Legos. The Enterprise is still in commission at Norfolk. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:34:08 | USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) | It is the Lincoln. Using Google Earth you can clearly see the large 72 painted on the flight deck at the bow. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:31:05 | San Giorgio-class amphibious assault ship | No problem. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 21:19:36 | USS Florida Ohio Class Balistic Missile Submarine in drydock | With the aid of Google Earth I am inclined to agree with you on this one. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 20:38:03 | Helicopters on airstrip | I stand corrected. I got a better look at these in Google Earth and they could be helicopters. The ones that ARE helicopters are Mi-17s. The white color could be a result of preservative coatings... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 20:29:46 | F-15s at Tyndall Air Force Base | F-15s. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-10 20:21:50 | Helicopters on airstrip | The way the helicopters are spread out over a large area, and parked in unusual locations, leads me to believe this photo was taken pre-invasion. Those helos are parked in such a way that one bomb... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-09 14:06:40 | Helicopters on airstrip | I did a little research and have come to the the conclusion that the large helos are not Mi-8s but rather Mi-17 "Hips", and the white objects are possibly AA-7 "Apex" air-to-air missiles. The Iraqis... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-09 12:17:27 | Military Staff Transport Jets | Certainly NOT Air Force one. |
| Analogman | 2005-08-09 12:13:23 | Helicopters on airstrip | They're too small to be helos and the wrong shape too. The large helos in the image are Mi-8s so the white things are far too small to be aircraft. They're most likely ground support equipment... |
| Analogman | 2005-08-09 12:02:19 | Baghdad Bomb Craters II | The crater pattern indicates a lot of bombs dropped by three different planes. This looks like a B-52 special delivery. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-21 11:32:00 | CIA Headquarters | Get a job there and find out. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-19 19:15:02 | Long Beach | The large, C-shaped area at center is the former Long Beach Naval Station. It was closed in Sept. 1994, most of the buildings leveled, and turned into a container shipping terminal for the Chinese... |
| Analogman | 2005-07-18 09:34:47 | Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station, Pacific | Another AN/FRD-10 Classic Bullseye antenna. There are still a few of these around. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-17 17:21:13 | Stazione Centrale | I lived there for three years. That's enough for me. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-17 17:20:36 | Texas Stadium | The hole in the roof is so God can watch his favorite team play. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-17 16:53:39 | Yongbyon Nuclear Facility | Another interesting thing is that the North Koreans claim this reactor is for producing electricity yet there are not power lines leaving the facility. Hmmm...? |
| Analogman | 2005-07-17 16:52:34 | Yongbyon Nuclear Facility | It's amazing that imagery of this quality is so readily available. 10 years ago it would have been highly classified and 20 years ago it would have been darn near impossible. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-17 12:14:52 | Stazione Centrale | If you look closely you can see three tourists getting their wallets lifted and a couple getting scammed over a digital camera that's really a rock in a box. Ahhh, Naples! |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 17:43:20 | USS Saipan (LHA-2) and USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) | The ship with the 2 on the deck is actually the USS Saipan, LHA 2. Notice the pinched bow where the LHD has a squared off bow? The LHAs were built with, and had for many years, a 5-inch gun... |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 17:37:22 | Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel | Good catch. I-664 goes through the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel. The above photo is the MMMBT, not the HRBT. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 17:31:47 | USS Florida Ohio Class Balistic Missile Submarine in drydock | The bottom submarine is actually two. You have to blow the picture up to see it but there are definitely two submarines in that drydock. It's pretty common, actually, since it costs the same to... |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 16:08:47 | Airplanes at NAS Fallon | Top Gun is here too. No A-10s or F-117 in the photo though. There are E-2s, F-14s, F/A-18s, and agressor squadron F-16s and F-5s. Also a three S-3 Vikings used as tankers. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 16:01:50 | A lot of drydocks | Those are the commercial drydocks and shipyards on the Norfolk side of the river. The big ones are owned by Metro Marine. You can see the 6th Fleet command ship, USS Mt. Whitney, tied up to the... |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 15:57:49 | Port Norfolk Connector | It's just about done now, except for some guard rails and lighting fixtures. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 15:55:00 | Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel | Oh, and the correct title is the Hampton Roads BRIDGE Tunnel. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 15:54:34 | Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge Tunnel | AKA the home of the worst summer resort traffic on the east coast. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 10:31:40 | Park Central Mall | I remember when this was THE mall to go to, even before MetroCenter took off. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 10:15:39 | Oprah Maze | It's a 1:1 scale picture! |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 10:14:46 | Great Wall of China | Great Wall of China? Looks like All of China to me. We have a Great Wall of China downtown. Terrific chow mein, and the egg rolls are pretty tasty too. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 09:14:38 | Big Surf Water Park | I remember going to Big Surf back in the late '70s. It was also the location of the big school dance scene in the movie "Just One of the Guys". |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 08:45:17 | Bridge of Remagen, The | Bridge? |
| Analogman | 2005-07-16 08:20:10 | Battersea Power Station | Pink Floyd is most definitely NOT a hippie group. Interestingly though, the shadow of the building looks more like it's usual self than does the tilted over image of the building itself. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-15 19:52:54 | Tanker with tether | Looks like a natural gas carrier. If you follow the pipeline ashore you'll notice it feeds large ball shaped containers, a sure sign of gas. Liquids are stored in cylinders, gas in balls. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-15 19:45:44 | Nafura oil/gas facility | Looks unused. Few well heads, minimal storage capacity, and no visible pipelines. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-15 12:21:18 | Bombing Target in Nevada | You assume the pilot was aiming for the center of the rings. Quite often the target is an old tank, truck, car, or plane set outside the rings. This makes it easier to identify fresh bomb hits. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-15 08:10:41 | Centro Penitenciario de Segovia | Another prison? The circular building near the parking area could be the visitor center. The rest of the compound looks quite secure and prison like. |
| Analogman | 2005-07-15 08:06:31 | Centro Penitenciario La Moraleja | Looks like a prison to me. Isolated location, multiple walls/fences, guard towers at the corners. If it were military you'd see much more activity. Also, notice the parking lot? Notice all parking... |
| Analogman | 2005-07-14 16:56:32 | Airplane - F-14 Tomcat | Yep, another one headed to Oceana. Probably coming from the same place as the F/A-18s in the other picture. |
