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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...154324&t=h&z=13 The world's largest system of weapons storage bunkers. All concentrated around the small town of Hawthorne, NV. And roughly north-northwest of that is an airfield used for target practice by the Navy.  http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...038581&t=h&z=15
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obso posted:Is that really the largest? quote:Hawthorne Army Depot is a U.S. Army ammunition storage site located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. It is directly south of Walker Lake. The depot covers 147,000 acres (59,000 ha) and has 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) storage space in 2,427 bunkers. It is said[by whom?] to be the largest such facility in the world. So if the source is to be believed, Hawthorne's is 100,000 acres larger in area, but has less overall storage space than MCAAP. I guess we are both half-right V  V
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ZebraBlade posted:Also That's the Davis-Monthan boneyard. It's where old military aircraft go to die. They are in various stages of preservation or decay over there. Hundreds of old fighters, transports, and bombers, many stripped of their repairable components and pretty much left to bleach in the sun. There's also a huge junkyard with rocket parts, booster rings, nosecones and the like, and rows of Connex boxes full of who-knows-what. It's operated by the USAF's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or AMARG.
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amishmatrix posted:It's amazing how fast nature reclaims her own On that note (and along with the ship graveyards), here's Mallows Bay, MD. 152 wooden steamships were abandoned here at the end of WWI, and as you can see, some of them on the northeast shore appear to have become artificial islands with vegetation growing from them. http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=38.471667,-77.268889&ie=UTF8&ll=38.471373,-77.269115&spn=0.003284,0.004823&z=18
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Zaftig posted:When I checked it to find this link, it suddenly got blurry, and when I zoomed in and out one notch, it suddenly took me to somewhere in Russia. Google maps has been buggy for me too as of late. It keeps reverting to the lowest resolution image and then I end up looking at the northernmost tip of Canada. edit: While looking through North Korea I found this. At first I saw the northern half of the construction, and I thought it was possibly a military airfield, but the concrete strip is too narrow and short to be of much use to jets. Then I zoomed out and noticed that it appears to continue much further on the other side of that hill! I can't tell for sure but it looks like there's a tunnel going through the ground. I wonder what it is... The Casualty fucked around with this message at 01:30 on Dec 4, 2010 |
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Skyworks posted:It is likely a military airbase of some sort. I remember reading something years ago that stated they store the fighter aircraft inside hollowed out mountains to prevent them being bombed and just roll them out and take off. Awesome if true. It's like something out of loving Ace Combat.
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Dec 6, 2010 05:42
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Schnozzberry posted:http://goo.gl/maps/BRJd Cool. Here's another one in San Fernando, CA. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.29...6,0.004823&z=18
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Something neat I just noticed while looking for some landmarks I'd remember during my trip in Dubai. If you look at the city of Dubai, focus in and out between the 7th and 8th levels of zoom. You can see the difference a couple of years makes. New neighborhoods being built, the airport being constructed, and "The World" islands being worked on. Pretty cool poo poo. I remember driving from Jebel Ali in the south, to the city, and just seeing construction projects on either side of the highway for as far as the eye could see. Nothing but half-built highrises and apartments. It was amazing. I feel bad for all the workers' situations in retrospect, but at the time it was a fascinating thing. It was almost like, if you took Manhattan, and built it in the middle of nowhere, constructing every skyscraper simultaneously.
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