Google Earth, Interesting sights
 

I've recently been looking at the N /S Korean border, Iraq and Russian coatal ports and airfields. The Murmansk area is fascinating and I've even found a bloody great nuc(?) sub on the Volga in the very centre of Russia, along with a small Caspian Sea Monster, must be 1500 miles from the sea. Why??? There's a huge Monster on the Caspian too, and lots of big hovercraft (Lebed?) too.

Anyone care to post sights worth seeing on Google Earth?

eg, which are Ivan's ship/sub/aircraft graveyards airfields.

Many of the mil airfields have areas of long cylindrical containers laid out in rows, in some cases hundreds of them, they must be a two or three metres across and ten, fifteen long, or more. What are they? Cans for spare engines?

Sadly the SA2 missile have been removed from a site in Africa that I photographed some years ago, though the compound is still there, any more like this?

I'm a nosy bugger, aren't I, but it is fun!

Watch out for the black Omega! :uhoh:

Oooooh! I had a look at Holy Loch and Guzz too, what sort of cars do they send??? And Toulon, and Punta Arenas, come to think of it!!! Should I expect a Vauxhall Astra and an armed moped as well?

With all the cutbacks I rather suspect they only have the one.

Apparently the Aurora magically appear if you stare at Area 51 on Google Earth for hours and hours... The truth is out there

You can also make out my kid's paddling pool in my back garden. I could give you the co-ordinates, but then I have to kill you.

What a great waste of time GE is!

My personal favourite airfield is this one

33° 41'10.35"N 112° 52'40.10"E

Look out for the underground hangars to the south as well.

Now that is impressive.

I rather like the Soveremenny that apparently doesn't want to be seen at 54.635N, 19.913E, and the huge Zubr LCACs next to it.

Try the Google Earth Community forum - umpteen thousands of locations identifed and detailed for you to lose the will to live over.

The Chinese built underground hangars for DC-3s? :eek:

33°40'2.09"N 112°52'53.28"E

Interesting.

Did you save any of the locations you mention? Or do you have the coordinates?

How about this - 40° 27'19.80"N 93° 45'09.14"E

Then keep going west a few clicks and you'll find others..

How about 39° 9'24.02"N 127°29'27.78"E? Looks like the North Koreans have taken to drawing aeroplane outlines on the ground in the hope of confusing those Yankee spy satellites (X apparently does mark the spot)

The runway just to the north also looks a bit iffy - patchwork or what?

Oh, if you ever wondered what happened to the Red October when the Americans finally gave it back - 69°26'2.30"N 32°21'19.44"E

I was always fascinated by 37°10'37.51"N 116° 2'46.16"W and the general vicinity - mainly to the south. Feel sorry for the Downwinders...

AIDU's bird is a cracker, just see how many more naked bodies you can find in that area. Why can't we get that definition everywhere? (My guess is that someone at GA thought they'd include some unadulterated data as a laugh.)

nacluv. Should we know what a "downwinder " is? Do I have one in the door of my motorcar? Should I treat it better?

deadpan, the size of that thing is astonishing. I found another nearby two days ago but darned if I can find it now.

The thing that has struck me so forcibly is the horrific levels of dilapidation and wrecked/sunk vessels that seem to characterise all these places. Their sheer size, impossibly inefficient looking infrastructure, dispersal, remoteness and vast scale are a chilling testament to the late Soviet threat, but to see such a massive effort laid so low is somehow depressing, though hardly unwelcome. The photos attached to some of these add another level of reality that is hard to comprehend - the photo of that assault hovercraft for instance. And the airfields covered in scores of ancient turboprops - the sharp pointy things seem few and far between, but every airfield is covered in defunct aeroplanes, helos in rows. I've so far only found half a dozen Bears and Backfires. Where are the rest of the heavyweights?

What in the name of Heaven was Mungo5's site about? Any ideas?

Keep them coming!

There is a Griffin in Americas. Sad I know that I know, but I was told by an even sadder person. etc etc

Surely, with a “beaver” that size it’s got to be a bloke?

Hi AB.

The location is the Nevada nuke test range, and Downwinders was the name given to the lucky locals down nearer LV who had the immeasurable good fortune to live under the fallout clouds.

:eek: I counted at least 260 MiG-17s/19s/Q-5s on that field! :eek:

Scale representations of Taiwanese street scapes and air bases perhaps?

Just like the scale North Korean airfields graded in the Nellis ranges... 37°25'44.03"N 116°51'3.09"W, 37°25'19.15"N 116°39'18.40"W & 37°21'49.14"N 116°49'39.77"W

...or the fixed SA and EW complexes... 37°35'24.12"N 115°54'26.96"W, 37°44'16.70"N 116°14'33.04"W, 37°42'33.81"N 116°26'22.55"W & 37°18'23.07"N 116°46'34.47"W

Are you sure they're copies of North Korean airfields? They look a little too elaborate for our crazy cousins. As always with Google Earth they use a hotpotch of satellite imagery, some of it quite old - perhaps these are representations of Iraqi airfields pre-2003? Incidentally the latter two are 'recent' additions - you can see the earthmovers working on the last one.