KAMCHATKA RANGE MONITORING STATION
The image above depicts a sensor station on the Kamchatka Peninsula. This facility is likely associated with the Kamchatka missile impact range, where ICBM and SLBM test warheads are headed when they are fired from Plesetsk or near the Kola Peninsula. No impact craters are evident in the area, suggesting that this may be some sort of telemetry or monitoring station used to monitor the performance of RVs as they approach the actual impact area further down the peninsula.
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-Overhead imagery provided courtesy of Google Earth
The image above depicts a sensor station on the Kamchatka Peninsula. This facility is likely associated with the Kamchatka missile impact range, where ICBM and SLBM test warheads are headed when they are fired from Plesetsk or near the Kola Peninsula. No impact craters are evident in the area, suggesting that this may be some sort of telemetry or monitoring station used to monitor the performance of RVs as they approach the actual impact area further down the peninsula.ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION
Feel free to discuss the current Image of the Week at the IMINT & Analysis Forum Image of the Week discussion thread found here.
SOURCES
-Overhead imagery provided courtesy of Google Earth
2 comments:
Wow! Any particular reason one might think its a telemetry monitoring site? Or perhaps it's just a radio mast?
I agree, just looks like a microwave relay site... microwave (dish) antenna on each side of a tower (as seen in shadows (remember stereo may be be your friend but shadows is your lover)). Given size and orientation of dishes... it seems likely that one could look around 30km or so in each direction - to find the other antennas in the link path. Besides.... why do you need telemetry antenna on top of a tower for a warhead... that kind of antenna doesn't need to be on a tower - warhead comes in from on high... Nah... this is a microwave link tower.
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