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Nice find!!!

Great find! Thanks for the info about these.

Great find!!! The Bing Image seems a little bit sharper, doesn't appear to be your typical Army base. The site is located in the region of the ICBM 816TH BDE/ 51st BASE, I would say it's probably some-kind of ICBM support site. There's quite a few ICBM sites to the north east of this site and HQ for the 816th is located near by.

The airbase next to it has a line up of what looks like 26 entry level small trainers. Maybe the runways have been resurfaced recently?

That's a really weird location for a bombing range, probably old site since there's so many civilian buildings nearby .

Just a little to the east is a small launch pad that has been used to fire ASMs, could be that this is related and UAV is used for targeting.

Great find!

Yeah, Iran got a couple of them from Ukraine and they have "successfully" reversed engineered them.

This is a FB website: https://www.facebook.com/semipalatinsk21

P-14 TALL KING

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-14_radar
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/russia/tall-king.htm

Funny, it almost looks like they are all 3 trying to go inside the same hangar!

Always wondered how noisy and how much it must rattle to land on dirt with such a big bird....

Great catch!

Doesn't look like all the Su24s have been completely replaced although by now with updated imagery, more Su34s probably have arrived.

That's what I was wondering about, Egypt got any dense jungles near by? LOL!

Daisies are also good for opening up paths for MBTs and IFVs thru minefield's.

What would they drop it from? A C130? Great catch Alkavian!

In the latest imagery, you can now spot 5 drones and quite some different installations built.

http://osimint.com/2014/02/23/imagery-of-the-week-drones-at-djiboutis-chabelley/

Great find!

Article in Jane's Defense Weekly 1 Jan 2014, shows that this airfield is in use for carrier training. There's 2 ski jumps for take off practice and 2 locations with arresting wires for carrier landings.

Being right across from Taiwan, you have to figure they are for cruise missiles or ASM launch site.

Great catch! I need to use Bing more often.

Thank you! Couldn't figure it out!

For moderator: sorry but I don't know how to get the URL from BING maps, that's where I got the image but the coordinates are from Google Earth.

I meant Jane's WASN'T convinced that it was a new military site.

There is what looks like a cement plant and the image you posted looks like an aggregate field for the cement production. Jane's Weekly was convinced 100% either that is was a new missile site, it is interesting to see the next images. I have a couple of other locations that I have spotted that could be missile/nuclear/military related that are in building phase. It is really hard to tell, need more images.

I think it is the pollution, also depending of the time of year, farmers burn all the fields, makes for lots of haze. Noticed that too, lots of China imagery looks "dirty".

" Rattled by the rash of drone crashes, the Djiboutian government asked the Pentagon to move its unmanned aircraft away from the city to a rarely used airstrip in the desert, Chabelley Airfield, according to the unclassified documents, which were obtained by The Washington Post as part of a public records request.

In a letter to Congress in February, the Pentagon asked for urgent authorization of $13 million in funds and equipment to build “minimal facilities necessary to...

Great find!

Just checked out HAARP for the first time. Yeah, kind of similar but it is different. Need to go back and checked the size.

Hmm, the Chinese array measures a bit smaller than HAARP but still quite large. I didn't know that HAARP imagery was censored. Some of the array is visible but the norther part is censored.

Interesting, just measured Chinese array north of this one and it is bigger, probably same size as HAARP.

It just seems a bit odd to me to put it so close to a bombing range. Also seems very similar to the one north of it at another bombing/testing range. Could it have something to do with the range? I was thinking more along the lines of EMP testing or anti GPS stuff....

I am guessing that was an older image when the hangar was being built. Also the cross looking runway was being laid down. Check out the stuff to the left of the steel frames. The blue and white "buildings", some kind of weird lay out and looks like a formation of 10 trucks? in the GE and even GM imagery, it seems like they have all been "taken" out. Pretty cool.

Yeah, I saw that one, it appears to have been built early 2010 and blown up later in the year, it is damaged in the 8/19/2010 image.Hasn't been repaired since. I was getting tired last night and didn't include it! I thought the odd steel frame structures next to it were more interesting. They haven't been bombed yet or maybe they are something else than target practice, I don't know.

Not only you can't see in in Google Maps but I noticed on Google Earth, it was displaying the 2011 imagery even thought there was more updated imagery, not sure why.

Great find! Mils are pretty bad ass helicopters.

What are the 2 helicopters straight ahead from the 747? They look like Russian Mils?

Great find!

Looks like they are all shutting down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

Looks like they are all shutting down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

Looks like they are shutting them all down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

Looks like they are shutting down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

Looks like they are shutting down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

Looks like they are all closing down.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-air-force-shut-down-space-fence-surveillance-001115570.html

This is really pissing me off!!!! News outlets and especially those bastards at Google Earth have stopped putting out new satellite imagery of the planet for the last 2 months and pretty much more than 1 year for Syria so there is no way for people like us to spend time looking at battle damage and try to report to military/Intel sites where we could spread the word and images!!!!! I AM SO MAD RIGHT NOW!!!!!

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/huge-mysterious-pentagram-kazakhstan-explained-6C10843939?cid=social10463484

Did you find this before the article? I think you just started something!LOL! Maybe the news people are checking out VG for stuff to publish?

I was kind of wondering because it seems to be in the middle of nowhere.

Great detail!

Anybody know what's it for?

I think it was also reported in Air Power June 2013 that US was flying drones out of Niger in support of French forces.

LOL! Sure seems to be in the middle of nowhere so they must have lots of time to play tennis and soccer!

Great find!

NICE!

Hard to tell. Could be related to the SAM site close by.

There appears to be another on undergoing some heavy maintenance, it looks like the rear has been removed to swap engines, I am assuming...Also, in the most recent GE pictures, there is now a line up of 5 AWACS.

From what as been said so far, it would appear that the cargo shifted in the bay and 747 entered a spin at such low speed/low altitude/ Cg gone to hell, no way the pilots could regain control...

Most probable. From what I know, AN-2 was considered to be the Soviet/Russian equivalent of the Cessna 170, so most likely it is a training center. Although, North Korea has over 100,000 special forces troops so it could have a secondary role as in incursion operations center, kind of far from DMZ but you never know.

Sad. Really starting to piss me of that Google Earth hasn't updated Syria imagery in months....

hard to tell if there was a storm or if the French are building some additional hangars.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&ll=47.04664378183658,2.6187747875594747&z=18

Thanks Skyeye! I will post it.

Great find!

It's a HAWK SAM site. There is another one a little east of it, I think, also there's a PATRIOT SAM site just a little bit south of it.

I think I screwed up on this one, it isn't ABL.

Nice pic!

You think that after 1000 maps submitted I would have figured out by now how you guys find some of these safari items on Street View...

Yeah, I was also very much surprised, just checked it out of habit! Don't know how we all missed it...

Probably another HAWK SAM site.

Moderator: my fault, i wasn't signed in, it is NICO that posted the comment.

I did find this:A mosque which entombs the remains of 3 individuals: a descendant of Hasan ibn ‘Alī, ‘Alī ibn Husayn, and Mūsā al-Kādhim.

Moderator: it is a shrine, i think there is a mosque but not sure.Don't know if it counts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixty_Dome_Mosque

http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/S_0313.HTM

Shatgumbad Mosque is the largest of the Sultanate mosques in Bangladesh and one of the most impressive Muslim monuments in the whole of the Indian subcontinent. It is ascribed to one Khan al-Azam Ulugh Khan Jahan, who conquered the...

Cool find! Wonder how many of these are laying around in Russia, left over from Soviet era...

Thanks Skyeye, missed those.

Yeah, say that. Eight of them, look like decoys to me. Maybe one or two could be real. Not that it really matters much, MIG19s!

Real interesting, had never before heard of this stuff.

Thanks!

http://store.michaelyamashita.com/media/1c557d7e-0c77-11e0-b227-5fe387ed7015-on-south-korean-highway-camouflaged-towers-called-tank-traps-a

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~pzhu/tanktraps/tanktraps.html
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Do you have a picture of what they look like from the ground? I have seen the other types of concrete blocks that can be dropped to form obstacles but these look like speed bumps when viewed from above.

Nice catch!

Thanks!

Thanks mlc1us!

Great find!

It only appears in Bing Maps. Clam shell style hangars are a sure give away for US base/drones.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21318043

Niger has confirmed that French special forces are protecting one of the country's biggest uranium mines.

http://news.antiwar.com/2013/02/01/obama-green-lit-israeli-attack-on-syria/

This article says that there was an attack on the depot, an attack(s) on a convoy(s) and maybe some other target.

Was this a separate attack? Or was this part of the same package strike that took out a SAM convoy? It is a bit confusing since no one really is giving details and just not sure if it was separate attack or just trying to confuse/muddy the water....

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-israel-convoy-20130130,0,6001837.story

Tried the place since it is so close to me, not bad food. Real big portions.

Looks like 23 hostages killed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21101092

Thanks!

For sure it's a mess, rumor is terrorists might still have some hostages, I guess, they moved them somewhere else. Looks also like Algerian forces went in with guns blazing.....

I have heard conflicting accounts: hope as many people as possible made it out alive.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/17/algeria-hostage-freed-escape-killed-al-qaeda_n_2496079.html

Two ground pictures:

http://china-defense.blogspot.com/2012/12/photos-of-day-lushan-county-henan.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/13/china-google-earth-structures_n_2457518.html

Looks like the mystery has been solved....

My inclination would be to say it's civilian. Doesn't appear to be any type of fencing, guards,gates,etc that would denote a military base. There's a military base about 15 kl SE of the mystery location, Chinese could easily expand that base...

As far as I can tell, this is the one gas station in Barzeh al-Balad district with 4 small concrete posts and metallic bars like the ones in the picture. I found what looks like a car garage and another gas station but they didn't have the fence.

Was there in May 2012, was really awesome. Would love to go back and spend a couple days as the site was bigger than I thought.

The US site seems bigger, although there is another site just north that also is censored. These 3 sites could be of similar use to the US counter part.

http://www.gochengdoo.com/en/blog/item/1872/chengdu_to_build_worlds_biggest_standalone_complex

I was there in August, they were still working on it, most of it is complete. It is huge!

Look just to the dirt lot next to the cleaned up "hangars" or buildings and you see about 100 tanks/IFVs that more than likely were under there. Some of them seemed to be damaged but it is possible that some can be repaired or cannibalized for parts.

I don't know for sure if this is the same mosque but it seems like it. Apparently it was destroyed by the rebels, without going into religion/politics, I do find it disturbing that they seem to rejoice at destroying this mosque.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c63_1353633490

As far as I know, the A7s are still flying until the end of the year.

http://armscontrol.eu/2012/09/hellenic-air-force-a-7-corsairs-are-about-to-be-withdrawn-from-active-duty/

I think the base serves as a regular flying base and storage.

Don't know. There is a train station and what looks like a water cleaning plant nearby. Looks like a lot of industrial activity.