Visla (Висла) - antenna fields

[syzygy]

380 meters diameter:

>>48.556045, 46.794889<< on ZoomEarth (note abandoned control station(?) to E)

any info on this?

do any of old GEC fellows around here remember some thread (let it be both from old- or new forums) about such ground compass features on Google Earth? I just cannot find it.

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Recent stage of updates: Placemarks for 13 sites attached:
Visla - antenna fields.kmz (2.45 KB)

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EDIT:

Just have found the same spotting by hhgygy on virtualglobetrotting.com! So that is why it looked so familiar..! ( :

How do you know these are bombing targets old fellow?

These are too big and way too well-made, if you know what I mean. All the fine details on and around my second finding (lines, blocks, equipment and the abandoned settled site (control station?) nearby again) make me think, these must have served higher purposes than being bombed away... and / or where are the craters then...?! (no bombshells or any other typical signs or scars of military practice sites...)

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(final) EDIT: explanation and further examples by willi1, below in this thread.

[syzygy]

Very exactly 850 kilometers far to the East -and some 4 years distance in time- from my first spotting I have found a 2nd  structure with the very same dimensions:


>>48.200146, 58.275733<< on ZoomEarth

Compared with the first one can note that this one looks less worn and ruined also that in this case "compass" points a few degrees off the Northern direction. (NNE)

Well - it took me 4 years to spot another example of these huge structures and still I am not closer to the solution... could anyone please speed up this process? ( :

Thanks!

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

[willi1]

Oct 18, 2021 12:38:04 GMT syzygy said:

   ... could anyone please speed up this process?

We like to do that

These are antenna fields, more precisely two-channel phase measuring direction finder type "Висла", belonged to the system for external flight path measurement of the Soviet air defense. There are some of them.

Attachments:

Visla.kmz (975 B)

[willi1]

Found a video about it

[syzygy]

Many thanks willi1 ! - Now reception is much clearer! 


Your bottomless archives should to be considered as part of the World Heritage btw...! 


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So these (all we have yet) are from Kazakhstan - more examples from any other (post-Soviet) countries anyone?

[syzygy]

Have made a quick search and already could look up 4 more sites.

2 came from simple wikimapia search results and 2 further pieces I thank to this page (rus) where also electrotechnics can be checked on archive photos.

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'Visla 7' is on the Krim Peninsula, so the first one that I have found outside Kazakhstan. As I am pretty sure that there are (many?) more Висла locations on the territory of the former USSR, still I ask your help to find more!

Thanks!
G

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

[willi1]

I still have one

Attachments:

Visla 10.kmz (667 B)

[willi1]

Another one (Latvia)

Attachments:

Visla 11.kmz (665 B)

[syzygy]

Latvia - Great!

Would be not the first thread of mine where you take the first role, even not the first time when I would not mind this at all! ( ;

Thank you Master!

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

[syzygy]

No.12.:

From Western Kazakhstan again >>48.171815, 48.595925<<


Zoom Earth link (anyhow above screenie is from BingMaps) ...( :


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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

[larryc1]

Fascinating!

[syzygy]

No.13.:

A ruined site, only 35 kilometers North of placemark "Visla 5" in the collection, on the banks of the same river, E Kazakhstan:



Coordinates: >>48.280572, 53.885271<< / Alternative satellite imagery on ZoomEarth

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.