Desert irrigation system

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I'm assuming these are bomb craters, but really have no way to be 100% certain.
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Analogman picture
@ 2005-11-14 13:04:18
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 line of holes makes a distinct turn...bombs don't turn the corner halfway through a stick.
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@ 2005-11-14 14:17:05
I was thinking that there might have been a road at the location of the bomb line, before the bombing, so that could explain what they were targeting. I have no good counter to your comment about the direction change, though. :)
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@ 2005-11-15 09:32:41
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 craters. Also, the likelyhood of a string of bombs actually following precisely along the road is about zero, that's why roads and runways are bombed diagonally, so there is a higher probablility of at least one bomb hitting the target.
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@ 2006-01-25 18:32:12
Irrigation structure
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@ 2010-10-13 13:57:54
100% irrigation method. You'll see these all over the place. You'll see the same thing along the road to the east.