Some interesting Google Earth Coordinates

[CastleBravo]

For the Boomers
British Nuclear arms storage facility
56° 03’ 39.5”N 4° 51’ 52.80”W
US Nuclear arms storage facility, west coast
47° 43’ 31.61N 122° 42’ 24.66”W
US Nuclear arms storage facility, east coast
30° 47’ 08.70”N 81° 32’ 15.48”W

First generation LGM(Land-based Guided Missile) sites, US
Liquid fueled w/ RP-1 and LOX
Atlas D missile site, NW of Cheyenne Wyoming, USA
41° 22’ 23.08N 104° 58’ 19.88”W
Atlas D missile site, NW of Omaha Nebraska, USA
° 29’ 16.05”N 96° 17’ 55.68”W
Atlas E missile site, west of Greeley CO, USA
40° 25’ 45.79”N 104° 51’ 42.56”W
Atlas F missile site, W of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
40° 53’ 43.53”N 97° 41’ 10.37”W
Titan I missile site, east of Denver Colorado, USA
39° 38’ 54.04”N 104° 41’ 27.26”W
Titan II missile site, S of Tucson, Arizona, USA
Now part of National Park Service as a museum
31° 54’ 12.03”N 110° 59’ 56.59”W

Second generation LGM, Minuteman sites, US
Solid rocket fuel.

Missile Alert Facility(MAF), South Dakota, USA
Now part of National Park Service as a museum, designated D-01
43° 52’39.68”N 101° 57’ 40.83”W
Launch Facility(LF), South Dakota, USA
Now part of National Park Service as a museum, designated D-09

Missile Alert Facility(MAF), SW of Mohall, North Dakota, USA
Active LGM-30F designated N-01
48° 45’ 34.42”N 101° 35’ 28.85”W
Launch Facility (LF) 2.5 miles from Canadian border. North Dakota, USA
Designated O-02
48° 58’ 01.21”N 101° 15’ 36.56”W

Minot AFB, Minot, ND, USA (if you proceed south an east at Minot AFB,B-52’s are on their alert pads)
LGM-30 training Silo
48° 25’ 21.44”N 101° 20’ 39.90”W

[CastleBravo]

November Launch Control Facility (Site N-1)

Situated about 70 air miles southeast of Warren Air Force Base, the Launch Control Facility for November Flight occupies a level 5.85-acre tract, set off from the surrounding grasslands by a barbed, chain-link perimeter fence. The site stands on the south rim of the South Pawnee Creek Valley, at an elevation of 4,790 feet. The closest town is New Raymer, Colorado, on State Highway 44, about 1.5 miles to the south. Overland access to the Launch Control Facility is by way of a graveled road, maintained by Weld County, that passes the west side of the site. A paved driveway, approximately 1,100 feet in length, leads eastward from the county road to an electrically operated sliding gate, which marks the entrance to Launch Control Facility N-1.
Site N-1 is the only manned facility in the November missile field. Its primary mission is to keep personnel and equipment in a state of readiness to launch the missiles of November Flight upon appropriate higher command. To fulfill its mission, Site N-1 constantly monitors the status of missile-field equipment and command communication from Warren Air Force Base. It also provides on-site personnel with support services, including food, lodging, and security.

The November Launch Control Facility is a compact complex of aboveground and belowground buildings and structures. Despite several modifications since the completion of original construction in 1964, the site still recalls its original appearance. Since these modifications occurred at all of the Minuteman missile fields associated with Warren Air Force Base, Site N-1 also resembles the other 19 launch control facilities at the installation. The primary features of the complex are listed below and are described in detail in subsequent paragraphs. The first three features in the list share integral construction, but for administrative and functional reasons they are traditionally treated as discrete entities.

Launch Control Support Building Launch Control Center
Launch Control Equipment Building Vehicle Storage Building
Hard Ultra-High-Frequency Antenna Hard High-Frequency Receive Antenna
Soft High-Frequency Transmit-Receive Antenna
ICBM Super-High-Frequency Satellite Terminal Antenna
Survivable Low-Frequency Communications System Antenna
Helicopter Pad
Sewage Lagoon

[CastleBravo]

Missile Field Organization and Layout
In 1963, Strategic Air Command chose Warren Air Force Base as one of five strategic missile support bases in the country to deploy the Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. Warren was no stranger to the ballistic missile. In 1957, the Department of Defense had selected the installation to be the site of the nation's first ICBM base. The Atlas ICBM was deployed at the base from 1959 until its deactivation in 1965. The 90th Strategic Missile Wing arrived at Warren in 1965 to command and deploy the fifth Minuteman missile wing of the Strategic Air Command.

Through its personnel and facilities, Warren Air Force Base provides the Minuteman program with a variety of vital services, ranging from missile-crew training to missile maintenance to high­ level command decisions. But the base itself shelters no operational missiles. Instead, the weapons are deployed in remote missile fields covering 12,600 square miles of Laramie, Goshen, and Platte counties of Wyoming; Banner, Cheyenne, and Kimball counties of Nebraska; and Weld and Logan counties of Colorado.

The nation's Minuteman force is organized as a series of administrative units called "wings." Each wing administers either three or four 50-missile "squadrons." Each squadron contains five "flights," with each flight housing one staffed command post ("launch control facility") and ten unmanned missile silos ("launch facilities"). Wing V at Warren hosts the 319th, 320th, 321st, and 400th Strategic Missile Squadrons. The 20 flights in these four squadrons are named in an alphabetical sequence that begins with Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and concludes with Romeo, Sierra, Tango. At Warren, Flights Alpha-Echo comprise the 319th Squadron, located in Nebraska and Wyoming; Flights Foxtrot-Juliet make up the 320th Squadron in Nebraska and Colorado; Flights Kilo-Oscar belong to the 321st Squadron, also in Nebraska and Colorado; and Flights Papa-Tango form the 400th Squadron, located entirely in Wyoming.

Within each flight, the launch control facility is designated with the numeral "1," and the ten launch facilities with the numerals "2" through "11." A flight's numbering system corresponds roughly to its geographic layout. Site 1 occupies a central position, while the remaining sites form a perimeter. To minimize the damage inflicted by a single enemy warhead, the sites are separated from each other by several miles. In the perimeter arrangement at Warren, Site 2 is always on the north, with Sites 3 through 11 positioned, clockwise, in numerically ascending order. For brevity, Minuteman personnel often refer to missile-field facilities in simple alpha-numeric terms: A-1, N-7, K-11.

http://eyeball-series.org/n1/n1-site-map-2.jpg

[Contact]

Naval Base at San Diego California

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4930/clipboardubf.th.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/clipboardubf.jpg/)

Indeed very interesting building :DL

[Stealth Hunter]

Naval Base at San Diego California

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4930/clipboardubf.th.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/clipboardubf.jpg/)

Indeed very interesting building :DL

:oeee

[Letum]

That naval base has since been changed as a result of google maps.
The removed the end of one arm and added bits to others.

[Fr8monkey]

Waiting for the obligatory right wing blame that this is all Obama's fault in 5...4...3...2...1...

[Stealhead]

I heard about that Navy dorm somewhere. It had been there since the 70's I belive and I think that it was not someone seeing it from above that realized the swastika(Though I forget now is that the Nazi direction or is this one in the Hindu/buddhist direction pretty sure this one in the good direction and therfore means good will not ill and in that case we showed that we dislike good will) shape a sailor who lived in it realized the shape while he was walking around insdie one day.
Anyway it got media attention and that is when people started talking about it. They have redesigned the shape some what it no longer looks like this.

I love google earth you can spend hours messing around on it.I love to go around and find old soviet bases and old military bases all over the world. I even found the remains of an old ammo dump about 1/2 mile from my old base Ramstien. I was never aware of this ammo dump before and the old no longer used bunkers and such was a common topic of intrest around base. Wed go around and take a look at the long empty bunkers that we knew about.There where (area ahs been cleared since then) some of these large sections of "bunker" prefabed each about as tall as a 2 story house in this small forest on base the skuttlebut was that these where part of the massive bunker system NATO wanted to make back in the early 70s but they never complted it and these sections where some of the left over bits.It was clear that they where very complex though. the woods are at(cant really see the bunker bit very well): 49°26'45.14"N 7°35'17.10"E. You can even see my of shop at:
49°26'21.52"N 7°35'19.82"E and at 49°25'44.21"N 7°35'36.92"E you can see the old hardened bunkers for fighters no longer used for this purpose after 1993 when they moved all the fighters to either Spangalhem or Aviano though AF and NATO fighters stop by often none are permantly assigned.That point ends up in the middle of a still used ammo dump the bunkers are on either side.That ammo dump is a Deadly Force area(though so is the entire flight line just not at the dumps level) there are several machineguns inside along with a butt load of Air Force security forces armed to the teeth. You where required if your truck broke down along this road to stay inside it until one of the securtiy forces came to you.

Fr8monkey looks like you count down will need to be longer.

[CastleBravo]

Iranian Missile Site. You can see the missiles sitting on the pads.
34°20'42.27"N 47°10'39.82"E

[Task Force]

Naval Base at San Diego California

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4930/clipboardubf.th.jpg (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/clipboardubf.jpg/)

Indeed very interesting building :DL
And they didnt knotice that that before when it was being built.:rotfl: Rename that place the swastika building.

[CastleBravo]

Don't tell me the Chinese have never built an aircraft carrier. This one looks suspiciously like a Nimitz Class boat (about 70% its size)and sits 50km from the open ocean.

31° 6'18.27"N 121° 0'50.04"E

[Sailor Steve]

And they didnt knotice that that before when it was being built.:rotfl:
Good point. The architect who designed it and the people who approved the plans, as well as the constructors who used them, all have to have known.

[Thomen]

Don't tell me the Chinese have never built an aircraft carrier. This one looks suspiciously like a Nimitz Class boat (about 70% its size)and sits 50km from the open ocean.

31° 6'18.27"N 121° 0'50.04"E

Did not look at it yet, but that might be the mock up kutzenow (sp) class carrier they made for an entertainment park. I read about it awhile ago.

[Task Force]

What lol, a Aircraft carrier for an amusement park.

[CastleBravo]

What lol, a Aircraft carrier for an amusement park.

Well we use aircraft carriers as museums. And they were commisisioned boats. For some museums are amusement.

[CastleBravo]

Another Iranian missile site.
37°58'4.25"N 46°10'41.12"E

I think i'll be having a look at China next.

[Task Force]

Theres a aircraft carrier at norfolk naval station. Also look at 36/50/53.34N 76/17/45.49W theres a museam with a WW 2 battleship.

[Raptor1]

Did not look at it yet, but that might be the mock up kutzenow (sp) class carrier they made for an entertainment park. I read about it awhile ago.

Are you referring to the Varyag?

She's located in 38° 56′ 29.04″ N, 121° 38′ 40.92″ E

I believe the aircraft carrier mentioned is the ex-Soviet Kiev

EDIT: Hmm, maybe not

[CastleBravo]

Are you referring to the Varyag?

She's located in 38° 56′ 29.04″ N, 121° 38′ 40.92″ E

I believe the aircraft carrier mentioned is the ex-Soviet Kiev

EDIT: Hmm, maybe not

Different coords.

[Raptor1]

Different coords.

Yeah, I know, I have no idea what's the carrier in your coords...

[Task Force]

Somepeople did a great job on newyork.:yep:
http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/6372/googleearth200906161501.jpg

[CastleBravo]

Yeah, I know, I have no idea what's the carrier in your coords...

Like the post title says........interesting.;)

[CastleBravo]

Somepeople did a great job on newyork.:yep:


Ya knew this was coming......http://911review.com/myth/imgs/fbi_hijackers.jpg

[Task Force]

aaaahhh... pics of the (in my opinion) cowardly a**holes.:yep:

[Raptor1]

Ya knew this was coming......

Huh? Where did you get my school yearbook?

[Task Force]

You have one hell of a yearbook.

[CastleBravo]

Bear in mind that China has adopted a semi-mobile nuclear missile stategy and many of their missiles are pointed at the former Soviet Union, which also has a semi-mobile basing strategy.

This strategy ensures the partial survival of its nuclear missile arsenal to counterforce attack. It also leaves its population open to countervalue attack, because the missiles cannot be easily found and destroyed.

I continue to look at China.

[Raptor1]

Bear in mind that China has adopted a semi-mobile nuclear missile stategy and many of their missiles are pointed at the former Soviet Union, which also has a semi-mobile basing strategy.

This strategy ensures the partial survival of its nuclear missile arsenal to counterforce attack. It also leaves its population open to countervalue attack, because the missiles cannot be easily found and destroyed.

I continue to look at China.

Are you referring to mobile ICBMs like the Topol? I don't think you can efficiently track those with Google Earth...

[CastleBravo]

Are you referring to mobile ICBMs like the Topol? I don't think you can efficiently track those with Google Earth...

Well you are correct in a way. Depending on the sophistication of the missile system, some means of determining true north, and where the missile is in relation to that point is required.

That requires a 'hard stand' of some type.

For instance, US missile systems don't know where they are, but they know where they are not (the target).
That type of sophistication in guidance syatems is hard to obtain.

[CastleBravo]

Chinese missile sites
37°30'35.63"N 96°50'16.35"E

If you continue south on the adjacent roadway you will find a number of hard stands and other sites like this one. Most hardstands are N-E by S-W oriented (btwn 50-150 feet long). You may also see some underground shelters.

[CastleBravo]

A couple of more on the chinese side.
37°24'27.49"N 97° 1'40.83"E
37°22'33.53"N 97° 3'21.31"E

[CastleBravo]

This site looks as if it contains a number of bunkers aswell. Look just to the west.
37°24'50.09"N 96°49'45.79"E

[CastleBravo]

Ya'all seem to know the politics of nuclear war but very few know the stagedy.

[Stealhead]

You ok there CastelBravo? You know that we have military and goverment guys that analyze this data and from far better images than what we get from google earth right?

The CV in china is clearly part of some form of public park 0 threat from that thing.

Some cool stuff: near 54°38'3.62"N 19°54'23.39"E you will see what appears to be a Russian frigate on fire pass of this area was on May 22, 2007


At: 69° 2'26.14"N 33° 4'12.74"E you will see a real CV.I think the one in china in based on this.If you look at some of the photo boxs around the one in China very clear this a buldingmade to look like a ship.

At: 42°52'54.66"N 47°39'21.43"E you will see the Caspian Sea Monster

At: 51°24'8.65"N 30° 4'39.13"E above Prypiat below Chernobyl.

At: 50°27'56.20"N 77°52'31.71"E you will see in this area the Soviet Unions nuclear test sight. now this is part of Kazakhstan.

At: 45°55'13.68"N 63°20'33.29"E you will see where Uri Gagrain left the earth.

At: 56°57'3.18"N 24° 5'55.21"E you can see Riga, Latvia where my wife was born though it was not a free country then.

At: 11°41'46.36"N 165°16'49.60"E you will see... Castle Bravo?:salute:

That is all I got for now.

[Highbury]

Most things of importance were removed from Google Earth after the thing with the Ohio propeller I thought.

Look at San Diego, not a single carrier off Coronado (USS Midway is still shown, but it is a museum), none of the ships further South.. even alot of the Seal base just looks like dunes. Look at any major US Navy base and it is usually the same thing, a couple supply ships.. floating museums.. no commissioned warships.

[Tchocky]

Exiting Tokyo Bay on the surface - http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.123441,139.735005&spn=0.003089,0.006866&t=h&z=18

[CastleBravo]

You ok there CastelBravo? You know that we have military and goverment guys that analyze this data and from far better images than what we get from google earth right?



The CV in china is clearly part of some form of public park 0 threat from that thing.

Some cool stuff: near 54°38'3.62"N 19°54'23.39"E you will see what appears to be a Russian frigate on fire pass of this area was on May 22, 2007


At: 69° 2'26.14"N 33° 4'12.74"E you will see a real CV.I think the one in china in based on this.If you look at some of the photo boxs around the one in China very clear this a buldingmade to look like a ship.

At: 42°52'54.66"N 47°39'21.43"E you will see the Caspian Sea Monster

At: 51°24'8.65"N 30° 4'39.13"E above Prypiat below Chernobyl.

At: 50°27'56.20"N 77°52'31.71"E you will see in this area the Soviet Unions nuclear test sight. now this is part of Kazakhstan.

At: 45°55'13.68"N 63°20'33.29"E you will see where Uri Gagrain left the earth.

At: 56°57'3.18"N 24° 5'55.21"E you can see Riga, Latvia where my wife was born though it was not a free country then.

At: 11°41'46.36"N 165°16'49.60"E you will see... Castle Bravo?:salute:


That is all I got for now.


I really like the Caspian monster:salute:


At: 11°41'46.36"N 165°16'49.60"E you will see... Castle Bravo?

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Cshrimps.jpg
My before pic.

[CastleBravo]

Most things of importance were removed from Google Earth after the thing with the Ohio propeller I thought.

Look at San Diego, not a single carrier off Coronado (USS Midway is still shown, but it is a museum), none of the ships further South.. even alot of the Seal base just looks like dunes. Look at any major US Navy base and it is usually the same thing, a couple supply ships.. floating museums.. no commissioned warships.

I think you just have to know where to look. Many ships here...including CVNs
36°56'53.78"N 76°19'47.07"W

[CastleBravo]

This is the Hanford Site in eastern Washington. The white cylindrical objects are reactor sections of decommissioned submarines.
46°34'0.29"N 119°31'10.69"W

[CastleBravo]

The K-25 plant in Oak Ridge, TN. This is where non-fissile Uranium-238 is refined into fissile Uranium-235.

35°56'6.81"N 84°23'40.49"W

[CastleBravo]

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear materials processing center in the United States state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles from Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons.

Three reactors for the production of plutonium(239Pu) on site.

33°15'1.18"N 81°38'3.69"W

[CastleBravo]

Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. Platform used to test Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) shielding on aircraft.

35° 1'47.80"N 106°33'27.67"W

[CastleBravo]

Chemical and biological weapon bunkers east of Pueblo, Colorado.

38°19'37.02"N 104°19'22.30"W

[CastleBravo]

I guess this thread will die. Without controversy and neck biting GT topics are doomed.

[Raptor1]

Sorry, I'd be up for some conspiracies if there was something that could be turned into a conspiracy, but I believe the purpose of everything you listed is known already

[CastleBravo]

Sorry, I'd be up for some conspiracies if there was something that could be turned into a conspiracy, but I believe the purpose of everything you listed is known already

So this is a politics only zone? Where on Subsim can we find a general topics no-politics zone? Does such a place exist?

[Q3ark]

I guess this thread will die. Without controversy and neck biting GT topics are doomed.


Ok here's some conspiracy for ya

52°10'29.56"N 3°19'31.21"W

It's a Welsh sheep bomb factory to be used in the overthrow of Gordon Brown, it's fully true :hmmm: :haha:

[Raptor1]

So this is a politics only zone? Where on Subsim can we find a general topics no-politics zone? Does such a place exist?

Err...what sort of controversy and neck-biting can Google Earth coordinates have?

[Stealhead]

[quote=CastleBravo;1119149]I really like the Caspian monster:salute:



Yeah google has added a newer pass of this area of Russia as when I found this last year the sky had no clouds and there where two hulks of the slightly smaller militray version of the Sea Monster now they are gone I presume they have been scrapped.there in a Naval Infantry base near here and they have hover craft the 2 baby sea monsters hulks used to be near the pad for the hover craft.


Someone mentioned the Ohio class srcew I think that was a hoax. The US Navy knows that there are things up in space looking down many with a far shaper and closer view than goole shows. And obviously every time they go to post a pass of an area of concern to the US military they are going to look at and remove anything they dont want you to see.

I dont see why if we want to post things on google earth it has to be a controversy to be interesting. And you mean to tell me Raptor that you have looked at every square inch on earth on google earth sure thing buddy. If you have nothing intersting to post that you found on google earth and want to show others dont post anymore.It does not say under general topics that any thread here in must have a controversial nature. I find it very interesting to see what others have found while using google earth. Some of the things you can find are not very easy to spot it took a a few hours of reading and searching to find the old Soviet Test Area.

[CastleBravo]

Err...what sort of controversy and neck-biting can Google Earth coordinates have?

That's my point....it has none, and will die because there is no controversy.

[CastleBravo]

Safeguard ABM Site. Used as a bargaining chip during the START I talks, it is abandoned now.
48°35'39.10"N 98°21'41.42"W

Fort Greely AK. An active ABM Site.
63°57'16.06"N 145°43'55.12"W

[CastleBravo]

For Stealhead.

The US Nuclear testing area.
37° 4'44.27"N 116° 1'35.44"W

As a bonus ... Area 51 (Groome Lake)
37°14'1.31"N 115°47'53.97"W

Do you see an underground structure entrance here?
37°12'35.64"N 115°49'1.57"W

[Stealhead]

Castle did you see that huge crater at the US nuclear test site. i have a book called Nuclear Landscape by Peter Goin. He mentions this test in it and has some very pictures of it including the cover of the book. Funny that was done to test the usefulness useing nuclear blasts to be used for excavating large areas(like strip mining I suppose). obviously it turned out not to be a very good idea. Part me of does think that some guys got together and agreed that they wanted to just barely bury a nuclear bomb and set it off just see how much dirt it would displace and of course to make a huge crater.

CastleBravo if you dont know what this is you are required to sing "Kum by Ya My Lord" in Chinese. 38°44'39.05"N 104°50'47.39"W

[Thomen]

What lol, a Aircraft carrier for an amusement park.

Not a real one, but a mock up.

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=129481&page=26

Not use if this is the same I read about. I somehow seem to remember that they built a mock up kutzenow or whatever for an entertainment park. Then again, that was years ago, so I might not remember correctly.

[CastleBravo]

CastleBravo if you dont know what this is you are required to sing "Kum by Ya My Lord" in Chinese. 38°44'39.05"N 104°50'47.39"W

Yep, know it well. NORADs Cheyenne Mountain Complex, been inside as a matter of fact, and it is nothing like that movie 'War Games'. Much smaller. Much of their operations have moved to Schriever AFB, east of Colorado Springs. 38°48'9.53"N 104°31'35.17"W . I guess they finally realized tht it isn't a survivable location anymore with the low CEP values.
Schriever still kind of makes me wonder though. So many cars in the parking lots for what I perceive to be the size and number of buildings.

PS
Speaking of the Cheyenne Mtn Complex, this is the less well known southern portal to the complex.
38°43'57.49"N 104°50'48.57"W

[Stealhead]

Yeah I have a buddy from the Air Force that I first got to know in Germany did some IT type job and he had just come from NORAD. Lucky bastard was in a NATO unit at a special base in Germany "around" Ramstein I dropped him off there a few times I could not even get in the gate at all just a US military ID wont cut it at this place. I say he was lucky beacuse he only had to show up for duty every other week for one week! Also he was good at attracting women not that I look bad or anything he was just a good guy to be around if your goal was to hang out with some ladies.Of course we both got married in Germany so it did not last.But my wife was the best of the lot for me.

[CastleBravo]

How about a US SSN in drydock @ Guam.
13°26'39.81"N 144°39'34.46"E

[CastleBravo]

Commercial airliner on final approach to Philidelphia Int. Airport.
39°53'15.15"N 75° 9'39.54"W

Or it's swimming. but considering the shadow i'd say it is flying.

[CastleBravo]

What appears to be F/A-18 central for the east coast. Oceana NAS.
36°48'57.28"N 76° 1'34.95"W

And the west coast. Lemoore NAS
36°19'56.45"N 119°57'7.27"W

[CastleBravo]

NASA pads 39A and 39B (northern pad) used for Shuttle launches.
28°37'0.40"N 80°36'44.88"W

The shuttle landing RWY is just to the west.

[CastleBravo]

The Idaho National Labatory. This is where the first naval propulsion nulear reactors were devoloped. I know Idaho?

43°31'9.23"N 112°59'59.72"W

[CastleBravo]

Meteor Crater Arizona.
35° 1'38.63"N 111° 1'22.11"W

There is a story about a Cessna 150/152 flying below the crater rim and because of the density altitude and the natural down drafts was unable to fly out of the crater. Fuel exhaustion was its ultimate fate. Both pilot and passenger walked away.

[CastleBravo]

PanTex Plant outside of Amarillo, TX. This is where US nuclear explosives are assembled and disassembled. The roundish structures which have been obviously obscured are the buildings in which this work occurs. Not that it matters after the recent release of this material to the media recently. Weapon bunkers are locate both north and south.

35°18'27.52"N 101°33'35.65"W

[CastleBravo]

The place from which I first saw a F-4 Phantom take off. Must have been 1967. Loud an' cool. This was before the ban on supersonic flight within the US, so it was very cool.

32°44'17.10"N 96°58'4.46"W

[CastleBravo]

Remember Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, the infamos pair of robbers/killers whose 18 month spree made headlines during the depression?

Clyde's grave.
32°45'56.48"N 96°50'47.87"W
Bonnie faired better.
32°52'2.88"N 96°51'51.42"W


While in this neck of the woods, how about Lee Harvey Oswald's grave?
32°43'56.59"N 97°12'11.62"W

[CastleBravo]

This is where I attended my first professional football game.
Don Merideth, Dan Reeves and Bob Hayes were all starters for the Dallas Cowboys. Am I dating myself?

32°46'46.60"N 96°45'34.58"W

[CastleBravo]

NIKE Site north of San Francisco.

37°49'36.97"N 122°31'40.01"W

[CastleBravo]

Kruschev thought himself justified deploying missiles in Cuba based on what I will show as Jupiter (Italy and Turkey) and Thor (Great Britain) missile sites. In all cases the nationals were in control of the missiles but the US maintained safety and surety of the nuclear warheads. Both Jupiter and Thor were considered IRBMs with a 1500 mile range. Both systems were deployed between 1959 and mid 1963.

Like many old (de-activated) sites some are very much recognizable and others, not so much. This is the case in all three counties.

Italian Jupiter Sites:
40°58'5.95"N 16°30'24.03"E
40°48'46.87"N 16°38'6.96"E
40°45'32.35"N 16°22'53.25"E
40°44'24.27"N 16°55'58.83"E
40°42'14.91"N 16° 8'28.64"E
40°57'43.72"N 16°10'55.72"E

Turkish Jupiter Sites:
38°50'37.80"N 27° 2'56.53"E
38°42'26.16"N 26°53'2.76"E
38°44'15.29"N 27°24'51.52"E
38°47'30.15"N 27°42'27.43"E
38°42'23.83"N 27°53'56.07"E

In Britain there were twenty Thor sites with three missile each. Although I attempted to find all the former sites I was unable to do so. There are lists if you'd like to do a search.

This is the first site I identified and if your spatial skills are upto the task, it becomes easy to identify other sites.

52°23'36.50"N 0°51'46.14"W

Others in GB:
53°22'22.50"N 0°11'44.17"W
52°37'50.98"N 0°35'47.51"W
52°18'51.46"N 0°55'21.69"E
53°48'18.19"N 0°54'42.54"W
53°55'2.43"N 0°16'30.25"W

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Did someone say Russian ICBM facilities would be hard to find?

57°51'45.52"N 33°39'8.89"E
56°33'51.36"N 96°17'3.01"E
56°22'37.01"N 95°28'22.22"E
52°33'4.12"N 104° 9'29.87"E
51°52'54.42"N 128°15'7.26"E
51°38'40.14"N 45°36'9.83"E
51°41'44.19"N 45°32'48.33"E

Silo basing
62°55'44.17"N 40°27'26.19"E
54° 5'2.29"N 35°36'38.69"E
54° 8'10.06"N 35°33'35.01"E
53°56'40.95"N 35°34'29.28"E

[CastleBravo]

This missile site has an anecdote to go along with it.
42° 6'46.09"N 104°52'3.22"W

Directly east of a major coal-fired power plant constructed long after the launch facility. What havoc the site's existence had on the power plant siting and layout, and/or what effect the plant has on the site (e.g. vibration might impact the missile's navigation system, and ground water seepage might increase sump pump rates in the silo).

On March 3, 2008, Rich Burton sent a great story about this site: Around early summer of 1978 I believe, work was well under way building that power plant. My flight always worked the north sites P Q R S and T. I was the Flight Security Controller working nights one tour at T-1, the Launch Control Facility. As you can image it was awfully awfully boring during the 7 pm to 7 am shifts, usually nothing ever happens, but the MCN line (the ringer from the missile commander to me topside) begins ringing, we had had severe thunderstorms most all day so my expectation from the commander was a another security alert message from one of the LFs, we often got them during severe weather that I would have to dispatch my Alarm Team to, they had been running these all night and it had just calmed down and they were on their way back to the LCF. In a panicked voice the commander says quick go to the window on the north side of the Security Control Center. Still very anxious he says what do you see, I replied what I usually see just a lot of darkness beyond the boundaries of the LCF. He says nothing? Just about that time there was a flash of lightning on the horizon that was pretty dazzling and I said wow. He sounds like he's crapping himself by now and said what do you see? I said just a flash of lighting. By now I can hear warning buzzers going off over his line with me and he say we've just had a missile away light on the console for T-11, are there any streaks in the sky. I said no and of course we all began our processes to respond and see what was going on. Some time the next day they finally go to the site, seems with all the construction the runoff from the power plant and the heavy rains flooded badly and went to the natural lowest point right beside but outside the T-11 LF and harmlessly into a big gully beyond the site to the west, but it washed out the cables that connect the LCF to the LF. They still had full control over the LF during that time via HF and UHF so there was no true incident. I visited the next day and the erosion was unbelievable to wash out cables that deep and as big around as 6" of hardened cable. To this day, I laugh when I tell that story but I but the poor officer that thought he had lost a missile was downright scared.

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Ya have to love how anal retentive the military is when establishing new systems. This is Vandengerg AFB(VAFB). It is the site of many ICBM launches to test systems of both the missiles and the ground facilities. Toward that end all the relevent systems were constructed at VAFB. Here are a few, if you have been following the thread, see if you can name the system.

I'll start with the easy ones.

34°51'23.48"N 120°36'8.11"W
34°52'43.45"N 120°38'0.28"W

34°49'18.37"N 120°32'40.31"W

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Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. The site is basically horse shoe in shape, if you could see it. It is on hold again, as it has been off an on since 1987. Democrats in office is a hold, Republicans its a go.

North portal
36°51'8.43"N 116°25'43.94"W

South portal
36°49'42.20"N 116°26'14.55"W

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Does anyone remember the mobile garrison concept for the MX, later to become the Peacekeeper(PK) missile? here are the coords for a feasability study. The track is approximately 3 smi long, and a few PK inserts are still visible, just to the west.

36°42'10.59"N 116°22'58.32"W

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Bremerton WA. From CVs to SSNs.

47°33'7.67"N 122°38'52.30"W

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Surface-to-Air Missile (SAM 5?) which composed the inner defensive ring for Moscow(Moskva) when strategic bombers were the threat.

56°10'6.54"N 37°49'45.26"E
55°28'0.75"N 38° 8'47.88"E
55°18'44.97"N 37°45'54.90"E
55°17'49.26"N 37°36'50.07"E

And a couple showing the dual use feature. Civilian housing.

55°23'6.38"N 37°10'39.74"E
55°34'55.65"N 36°52'22.31"E

[CastleBravo]

Back to VAFB. This is LCC now MAF design which was created on VAFB.

The interesting part of this coord is the obvious VLF (receive only) amtenna which was burried underground.

34°46'6.97"N 120°32'0.40"W

The VLF antenna is only part of an elaborate communication facility which includes, Hardened Inter-site Communication System(HICS), Hardened VHF antennas, Emergengy Rocket Communications System, Airborne Command and Control System(ACCS).........etc.

Bear in mind that the US President cannot, on his own initiative, cause any nuclear weapon to be deployed. The two man rule is in effect.

[XabbaRus]

It's all Obama's fault.....

[CastleBravo]

It's all Obama's fault.....

No...its bush's fault.

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Another VAFB coord set. Our British folks should recognize this.

34°45'52.24" N 120°37'20.36"W

And the proof.............north of North Luffenham, GB
52°37'50.98"N 0°35'47.51"W

[Platapus]

The Idaho National Labatory. This is where the first naval propulsion nulear reactors were devoloped. I know Idaho?

43°31'9.23"N 112°59'59.72"W

Do you have the GeoCoords for the SL-1 reactor in Idaho? It was involved in a very bad nuclear accident in 1961. Be interested in seeing how it looks.

[Raptor1]

do you have the geocoords for the sl-1 reactor in idaho? It was involved in a very bad nuclear accident in 1961. Be interested in seeing how it looks.

43°31'3.04"N 112°49'25.64"W

I believe

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Do you have the GeoCoords for the SL-1 reactor in Idaho? It was involved in a very bad nuclear accident in 1961. Be interested in seeing how it looks.


Doesn't look like much.
43°31'2.48"N 112°49'18.36"W

[Stealhead]

Yeah not much left of it now.

check point charile: 52°30'26.77"N 13°23'25.56"E

this is Khe San: 16°37'36.37"N 106°43'10.72"E


Angkor Wat: 13°24'45.07"N 103°51'59.14"E
ton of bule photo boxes.

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SA-5 site in Florida?

30°36'11.05" N 86°18'2.12"W

Compare to SA-5 in Estonia.

59°17'34.88" N 25°54'19.76"E

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OK this is a 'better for me and not for thee' thing. If you remember when an ABM system was proposed for Poland and Checkoslovakia. Germany was apposed to it. Perhaps the people of Germany should know what their politicians are really up to.

Patriot missile sites in Germany.....

49°19'0.76"N 10°36'21.01"E
49°26'23.81"N 10°23'57.96"E
50°10'23.21"N 8°57'57.34"E
49°56'55.72"N 8°58'9.93"E
48°12'23.78"N 10°53'18.10"E
51°52'35.65"N 8° 0'42.50"E
52°30'59.29"N 8°32'14.79"E
52°43'2.90"N 8°39'40.17"E
52°16'7.05"N 9°15'12.44"E
49°35'42.10"N 8° 8'59.72"E

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Russian boomer?

64°34'20.06"N 39°46'0.19"E

Typhoon...no doubt.
64°34'8.68"N 39°46'10.35"E

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A few more Russian submarines.

64°35'2.04"N 39°48'43.51"E

A Yankee with missile tubes open.

64°35'11.72"N 39°49'21.07"E

A couple of sinkers
64°35'1.16"N 39°49'39.27"E

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VAFB Atlas-D installation. The Atlas-D was the US's first ICBM, and was used to boost John Glenn into orbit. All Atlas-D sites are de-commissioned.

34°47'29.12"N 120°35'38.67"W

Deployed Atlas-D in Wyoming.
41°22'43.06"N 104°58'16.60"W

Nebraska site.
41°29'16.61"N 96°17'55.52"W

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US Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) sites. There are five of these sites; here are four of them. The site @ Thule AFB, Greenland is not visible using Google Earth.

Cape Cod, MA
41°45'8.62"N 70°32'19.35"W
Beale AFB, CA
39° 8'9.68"N 121°21'1.39"W
Clear AFS, AK
64°17'41.31"N 149°11'23.40"W
Flyingdale, UK
54°21'42.23"N 0°40'12.33"W

Up until 2001 another site was located north of Eldorado, TX. It is no longer active.
30°58'43.18"N 100°33'10.25"W

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Back to VAFB. Titan I test site.

34°48'21.10"N 120°32'39.86"W

And a comparable active site (at the time) east of Denver, Colorado
39°38'55.88"N 104°41'26.19"W

This site, further east of Denver is chronicled in a web site.
39°39'56.61"N 104°29'39.17"W

http://www.chromehooves.net/Titan_Epitaph_main.htm

[CastleBravo]

Here is an Airplane in flight over Utah.

38°13'35.94"N 112°17'56.62"W

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South of DFW airport.

This site is interesting on a couple of levels. There is a big @ symbol cut into the grass. Those aliens are moving up from crop circles, or is it down?:D

You can also see the remains of an old airport, both paved and overgrown.
Amon Carter Field. http://www.airfields-freeman.com/TX/Airfields_TX_FtWorth_NE.htm


Coords:
32°50'8.98"N 97° 3'4.67"W

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Tokyo Bay is home to a number of man-made islands including the mysterious Kawasaki Island, which is home to a large tower. But what looks like it could be a skyscraper from afar is actually just a ventilation shaft for the Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, which runs from Kisarazu City to Kawasaki City. Sometimes called the Tower of Wind, this man-made island took 30 years to be completed.

35°29'29.61"N 139°50'0.78"E

http://75.125.201.25/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tokyo-tower-of-wind-01.jpg