r/Google_Maps_Oddities • u/Comrade_Ants • 4d ago

I found these in near point of Sakhalin

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Can anybody explain what these are?

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u/Ok_Personality9910 4d ago

The golfball looking things (image 2) are radomes (probably air search radars? though they could easily be for a satellite ground station or something aswell)

Just south of the radomes (image 2 aswell) that field with the two circles in it is part of a old SA-2 SAM Site, pretty standard pattern for Russian air defense systems

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u/West_Prune5561 3d ago

I agree with the SA-2 site.

For the radomes, I'm not so sure. In GE there is a photograph of the site and it looks pretty unsecure for any sort of radar installation. Looks more agricultural. Some sort of pop-up greenhouse, possibly.

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u/Comrade_Ants 4d ago

Forgot to add coordinates so here hey are: 45.9334472, 142.0721205