You see them airplanesthe runways, the helicopter and the Ships at anchor. All strategic fundamentals, sensitive targets. Visible high resolutionwithout any kind of “blur” that blurred used to blur parts of images for reasons privacy or security. A novelty, according to various media and Twitter users, that Google Maps he would have decided in the past few hours by ‘opening’ satellite imagery.
“Nothing new,” is the company’s response Mountain view that on the social network, as of Monday, dozens of users responded to indicate that the politics has not changed and the navigation these areas has always been in high resolution. And in support of Google Maps claims, many point out that even the NATO bases of Sigonella and Aviano in Italy, as well as those of Ramstein in Germany they are perfectly visible on the service of the US Big Tech.
Google Maps has stopped hiding Russia’s secret military and strategic installations. Allowing anyone in public to see them.
Open sourced all secret Russian installations: including ICBMs, command posts and more at 0.5m per pixel resolution. pic.twitter.com/K77t0gmt3J
OSINT UK (@jon96179496) April 18, 2022
Several users including the Belarusian channel Nexta TVposted pictures of Russian bases, noting that Google Maps “has stopped hide allow secret military and strategic structures “ “to anyone” to display them: “Open sourcing of all installations Russian secret: included ballistic missiles intercontinental, command post and more with a resolution of 0.5m per pixel”. Tweets to which Mountain View always replied straight away: “Hi, please note that we didn’t contribute anything changes on the blurring of our satellite images in Russia”, the text chosen to explain that visibility has remained the same as in the past.
Hello, please note that we have not made any blurry edits to our satellite imagery in Russia.
Google Maps (@googlemaps) April 18, 2022
Among other things, many users point out that in a military base of Lipetsk, about 400 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, some planes on the runways do not appear to be real thanks to the highresolution images. This would not be a new practice. Since the days of world warsIn fact, it’s a wellknown military tactic “Wrong Targets” to deceive the enemy. For example the German armed forces They were formerly used for simulation exercises and training tank who renamed England parodyor parody, precisely because that’s what it was about imitations set up a trap.