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Google Maps Reveal Coordinates Of Russian Military Airfields And Navy Warships
greatgameindia.com ^ | 4/20/2022 | GGI Staff

Posted on 04/20/2022 12:12:32 PM PDT by ransomnote

Google has taken a variety of moves in reaction to the Kremlin’s military campaign since late February, including stopping ad sales in Russia and disabling Google Pay. Recently, Google Maps started revealing coordinates of Russian military airfields and navy warships.

 
 
Google Maps Reveal Coordinates Of Russian Military Airfields And Navy Warships

Google has disputed making any modifications to the way its Maps service displays Russia’s important military facilities. On Tuesday, Russia issued a statement in reaction to news that Google Maps had unobscured Russia’s military airfields and navy warships.

“Google Maps has opened access to Russia’s military and strategic facilities,” said the caption on a handful of satellite pictures uploaded by an unverified Ukrainian Twitter account connected to the country’s armed forces on Monday. The official account of the country’s Defense Ministry has referenced the account in question multiple times.

 

Two of the photographs appear to indicate military airfields with multiple motionless fighter jets, whereas the other two portray what seems to be navy boats. The tweet claimed that “now everyone can see a variety of Russian launchers, intercontinental ballistic missile silos, command posts and secret ranges with a resolution of about 0.5 meters per pixel.”

By Tuesday morning, the message had approximately 2,500 retweets and had been referenced by multiple news outlets. Google Maps was interested in one of the reports. “We haven’t made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia,” the company’s Twitter account told media site NEXTA, which is prohibited in Belarus.
 

On Monday, The Verge reached out to Google directly for comment. Genevieve Park, a spokesperson for the internet giant, stated in an email that the firm has not “made any blurring changes to our satellite imagery in Russia.” According to The Verge, at least one of the photographs included in the initial tweet is viewable on Google Maps, indicating a “active Russian military site,” as characterized by the publication. Furthermore, the journalists claim that using Google Maps, they were able to pinpoint a few other military locations in Russia.

These installations were visible before Russia initiated its military operation against Ukraine in late February, according to the article. According to The Verge, a number of similar installations in other nations, including the United States, can also be viewed for free via Google Maps. Images were significantly blurred in some situations, such as at the French Air Force’s air base 705 on the outskirts of Tours, according to the story.

Google has taken a variety of moves in reaction to the Kremlin’s military campaign since late February, including stopping ad sales in Russia and disabling Google Pay. YouTube has also blocked a number of Russian state-funded media channels. 

In retaliation, the Russian government has threatened Google with heavy fines unless it restores accessibility to the blacklisted media outlets’ channels.

Following Ukraine’s refusal to fulfill the conditions of the Minsk agreements, which were first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s subsequent recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia launched an attack on its neighboring state in late February. The protocols negotiated by Germany and France were intended to grant the separatist areas special status within the Ukrainian state.

Since then, the Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine designate itself a neutral country that will never join the NATO military alliance led by the United States. Kiev believes the Russian offensive was unjustified and refutes suggestions that it planned to seize the two republics by force.



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1 posted on 04/20/2022 12:12:32 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote
greatgameindia.com

"By the many arms of Vishnu, I swear it is true!"


2 posted on 04/20/2022 12:23:19 PM PDT by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: ransomnote

Like the same can’t be done in locating Ukrainian positions, etc? /s


3 posted on 04/20/2022 12:28:26 PM PDT by cranked
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To: ransomnote

Oh, this thread should prove entertaining.


4 posted on 04/20/2022 12:39:19 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: cranked

One of my duties in the 1990s was closing down US bases in Europe and reallocating computer equipment and rerouting/terminating communication circuits across the theater and back to stateside.

In the 1994/95 timeframe, I visited so many places, both known and even classified it is all a mashup of memories.

I have been using Google Earth Plus to find many of these places in recent times. Things to look for? Baseball diamonds. Even bases now closed for almost 30 years still shows signs of this.

And yes, I have used GE+ to keep up with changes at my old home base of Ramstein Air Base in Kaiserslautern Kreis, Germany (and even the house I used to rent and my neighbors places on the street. Missing old times!).

Some of the places were very close to old Soviet and Warsaw Pact bases so I look for those, too. And I’ve scanned Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, etc, looking for the same.

So this isn’t really news.


5 posted on 04/20/2022 12:47:33 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: ransomnote

Surprised that Russia hasn’t unleashed its ASAT weapons against the Google satellite.


6 posted on 04/20/2022 12:49:01 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ransomnote

I’ve been looking at these sites on Google Earf for years and not much has been blurred out. I enjoyed looking at the berthed submarines in the north and various missile ranges and cosmodromes. Google likes to blur US bases though.


7 posted on 04/20/2022 12:57:10 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: JimRed

That would be an act of war.

The point is, this has ALWAYS been going on since the early 2000s.

The Russians haven’t a leg to stand on.

Do this for proof—use Google maps in satellite view and go to Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Look for Hurlbert Field and count the O-22 Ospreys on the restricted tarmac, just Northeast of the runways. Now you can see what everyone else can, no more no less than any Russia Air Force base.


8 posted on 04/20/2022 1:00:47 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: humblegunner

:)


9 posted on 04/20/2022 1:01:13 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: humblegunner

:)


10 posted on 04/20/2022 1:01:50 PM PDT by mylife (It looks just like a telefunken U47... (===)
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To: Sawdring

Which are blurred? I haven’t noticed any.

I count 8 O-22 Ospreys, in very clear detail, over by the 1st SOG.

Take a look.


11 posted on 04/20/2022 1:05:54 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: JimRed

Too late. Google already has the pictures. Mostly acquired, at least in the early days, from publicly available (if you’re willing to pay) satellite data.


12 posted on 04/20/2022 1:06:42 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: ransomnote

13 posted on 04/20/2022 1:07:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ransomnote

Great!
I’ve moved all my spitball launchers to Defcon 1...
Pre-launch preparations include a large bowl of cream-of-crab soup...

There will be no more negotiations...


14 posted on 04/20/2022 1:24:15 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Sawdring

Google snapshots are sure less expensive, more accurate, and faster to acquire than the 3-year effort several hundred Japanese-Americans had to expend documenting Pearl Harbor through hand drawings...


15 posted on 04/20/2022 1:32:12 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: cranked

https://yandex.com/maps/?l=sat&ll=-86.512567%2C30.478562&z=15

Eglin AFB in Florida. The Russians can do the same thing to us, they just have to “unmask” the airplanes.


16 posted on 04/20/2022 1:37:42 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ransomnote

https://yandex.com/maps/959/sevastopol/?l=sat&ll=33.585126%2C44.690736&z=18

It looks like the Russians are also showing the position of their planes. This is in Crimea...of course this is an old image but you see roughly the same with Google maps.


17 posted on 04/20/2022 1:55:14 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ransomnote

It’s kind of annoying when Google watches me on the toilet.


18 posted on 04/21/2022 7:14:44 AM PDT by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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