FighterControl

Anyone noticed that air bases are being blurred out on google satellite view? I was looking at Souda Bay just a couple of weeks back and it was all visible. Today it's all been blurred out, including some facility just to the SE of the airport and nearly all of the northern coastline in the bay just to the south.

I wonder how long it will be until others start getting the same treatment.

Maybe related to the increased tension between Greece and Turkey at this moment, ie maybe a request/demand from Greek Govt. Maybe.

From memory all the Luftwaffe bases in Germany are 'fuzzed'

French air bases are also pixelated - even the museum at Chateaudun is fizzed out

Whilst Fairford shows 3x B2 and a C17.

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Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:04 pm

From memory all the Luftwaffe bases in Germany are 'fuzzed'

German bases looked OK a few mins ago when looking at Wittmund..

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.5489855 ... a=!3m1!1e3

And it's just the latest images for France and Greece, is it not? Earlier images are unaffected.
Freeman

Just use Google Earth if you can, and use the historical imagery option.

Souda Bay has been pixelated out along with everything other military installation in Greece for a couple of years now. I think you must’ve inadvertently selected the historical option if you saw it only a few weeks ago. The area to the South of the base is a large Naval facility used by Greece, the USN and NATO. It’s the only facility in Europe capable of docking a CVN. Along the North coast is the NATO missile firing installation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Mi ... stallation

Maybe military facility? but i've seen them docked at Marseille!

KB

Thought that myself after I posted. Turns out the article I was referring to was talking about maintenance facilities, which are seemingly limited to only 3 places outwith the US, these being Souda, Dubai and Yokohama.

Hi the greek bases are not pixelated on apple maps, but the french bases are...

Hmm strangely enough Likes of Michael AAF (Dugway), Groom Lake, TTR are not pixelated out bar one Janet flight 737 parked next to another Janet on Groom‘s ramp. But Casement Aerodrome , Baldonnel is only blurred on google earth Street view but not on top. Likewise Belgian Luchtmacht Bases Koksijde And Kleine-Brogel are pixelated out.

South of the border Istres is heavily pixelated out ...

Dutch bases are clear ..

Cheers

Souda Bay is still visible on Bing maps and has an E-4 on a taxiway.its a great place for photography of Greek a/c, as long as you’re sat on a cruise ship alongside. That said the Commonwealth Cemetery is well worth a visit.

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