So I was looking around on Google maps when I spotted this about 50 miles north of China Lake NAWS in the Mojave Desert of California.
It's basically out in the middle of nowhere and it's clearly some sort of kill house complex. What really intrigues me is the ship.
Anyone have any idea what this is, past just a kill house complex?
Coords are: 36°12'28.1"N 117°33'27.0"W
Whole shit load of stuff out that way, south of this place.
Well, considering that it's near China Lake, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's exactly what you think it is, intended for/used by NSW or maybe FAST teams.
>>29840180
Most likely just a kill house complex.
If its replicateing something specific, the raid has most likely already been carried out, and finding what its replicateing is damn near impossible.
>>29840180
is it within the base's controlled area or outside of it?
>>29840180
Mostly unrelated, but I searched the desert nearby and found a half star of david half pentagram.
36°12'29.42"N 117°43'16.78"W
>>29840180
what's a kill house?
>>29840299
Hard to tell. I imagine it's still in the base's bounds, but there is a town a few miles to the north as well.
But when I say it's out there, it's WAAAY the fuck out there. in a valley between Death Valley and the Owens Valley.
>>29840337
House where you kill things.
>>29840319
wtf mane
>>29840337
It's a structure with targets and shit in it used for MOUT training.
Looks like the setup they used to take the Bin Laden OP.
They probably just have the ship out there for mock VBSS drills. Looks like a normal MOUT/kill house complex
>>29840319
>36°12'29.42"N 117°43'16.78"W
That almost seems like a Russian SAM site orientation. You have spokes out to missile batteries, and a cleared out central area where the Fire control center would be.
Strange.
>>29840374
That was in north carolina or something
>>29840374
>You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.
pls go away
>>29840180
I see a boat and a helicopter and a train or subway
>>29840400
>Strange
Not really, it is in the center of the naval air warfare center's airspace, they have simulated threats for training/testing.
>>29840442
You're right, now that I think about it. There is a bombing range out there somewhere too.
Are those 20ft containers? If so the "boat" is 120ft long.
Just to the south is what looks like a runway, but not enough hangers for jets. Some odd looking shapes are at the north end. I'd guess drones of some sort.
>>29840180
i lived on this base for years. all kinds of fucked up shit out there. instead of building forts in the woods, we'd go to the desert. all sorts of unexploded ordinance, craters, trails. my brother and i decided to ride our bikes up "B" mountain. rode up a few miles, hit a huge fence. threw our bikes over it, kept riding. not even 10 minutes later all kinds of MPs and SWAT-like groups swarmed us. threw us into their SUVs, took our bikes, brought us in and checked our blood while the base commander shit down my dad's neck for an hour. they were making sure we didn't have radiation poisoning or any other weird shit. all the nuke and other missile tests they've done out there since the '40s. everything was crazy secret and isolated at that base, all kinds of weird aircraft and exercises at all hours. everyone freaks out about area 51, but bases like this are where the real weird shit happens
>china
>boat
You got you're answer op
>>29840651
This. China Lake and Edwards AFB are where the real action is at. Let area 51 keep its secrets, we have our own.
>>29840711
i doubt there is anything truely interesting going on there. if you think about it everything in war is about trying to get from point a to point b faster cheaper and with more kick.
if you keep abreast of materials sciences, and keep any eye on any new academic papers in those fields, I doubt anything there is anything that ground breaking.
whats scary is the NBC stuff, but for the most part there arnt novel applications beyond, lets figure out what is possible, lets plan for it.
i could be wrong though. i could be very wrong.
>>29840681
Thanks, came here to do this.
>>29840750
all kinds of private and dod airfields and companies all over the desert. skunkwork shit that we'll never know about. area 51 is a front, the real testing and research is happening at isolated bases in the middle of God's country
>>29840681
>my hypothesis is that a lot of skunkworks shit is generally novel, and that like 80% is crap that either is one contractors project that may or may not get folded into another project. and probably has few applications beyond employing nerds for a few years, some of it will end up on the consumer market. Some of it because the techs take it home, think wd40. some is just better in the open. Some like gps are declassified for whichever political purpose. my guess is there is a forumla for taking existing technology and using conjecture and estimating where it will be in 5, 10, 20, and fifty years, and estimating what breakthroughs will enable other new technologies. and what scarcities will exist sooner rather than later.
>>29840180
All kind of weird stuff out there that's perfectly innocuous. Here's another landship.
https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5791851,-96.355807,177m/data=!3m1!1e3
This one's a firefighting school, the ship is for training port firefighters and merchant marines how to put out fires on ships without steaming themselves to death.
Wow you discovered shipping container mout towns. The cheapest and shittiest training facilities available.
>>29840681
SONOFABITCH
look at alaska if you want to find some neat shit
>>29840681
I don't unnastan.
>>29840681
Oh my God.
30.500520, -86.308610
what kind of fun does the air force have with these
>>29841591
That's an A10 range
>>29840681
Are those things in the form of boats?
>>29840180
its a training yard for NSW or Port Authority, more than likely....
note how no two container areas are set up the same, but rather in common setups you find at the transfer yard. Also, half a container ship so they can practice storming a ship at sea. Also notice the light posts so they can do night drills as well.
As to why there is that little wooden bridge there, IDK. Maybe that is common at adjoining adjacent ports/docks.
Good find, but I doubt you are going to find any killhouses above-ground in domestic US soil.
>>29841688
Yes, probably for practice firefighting on board ships or training for boarding naval vessels.
>>29840180
Please stop finding the Illuminati and Magistic 12 secret bases /k/.
You'll ruin the surprise when we use our armada of city sized space, sea, ground, and subteranean war machines to conquer the earth in preparation for the invasion of ayyy lmaos.
-sincerely NWO, thanks.
>>29840180
you should look up the fake city in northern virginia
>>29840244
>replicateing
stop
>>29841729
Speaking of that....
Did you know there are faux-cities in china, that are built as exact replicas of major cities around the world? Now that I think of it......Paris was one of them, fake Effel tower n all....
anyone can confirm Paris bomber and attacks actually took place in Paris, FR?
>>29841758
hmmmmmmmmmmmm
its just a mout town. made to simulate urban warfare
>>29840586
see the boat at the bottom? SEAL course.
>>29840180
>>29840586
>>29840681
What you have stumbled upon Anon is a training area for Government agencies. I can't tell you much only that yes it is a kill house and it changes all the time based on the mission. We change the layout based on satellite imaginary of a site for future missions we are or will be carrying out.
>>29841847
>We change the layout
>we are or will be carrying out
Uh......wut
>>29841847
So a giant mission-specific tinker toy set. Looks like the buildings are made of intermodal shipping containers- making it easy to move them around fast.
>>29840319
There appear to be helicopter parked there. Interesting.
>>29840180
Its a training facility for the USMC infantry. After infantry Marines finish School of Infantry, SOI, they come here for Mojave Viper. Its to simulate urban combat like the Infantry would see in Iraq or Afghanistan. My sources: I'm an infantry Marine, I've been at the exact site
>>29840681
you sank my battle ship
>>29841881
New slogan for Papa John's Pizza?
>>29840651
No, no you haven't trust me, its a training facility for the Marines, I've been there
>>29840681
niceme.me
>>29840180
What you have here is Mojave Desert. Its a course for USMC infantrymen after they finish SOI or school of infantry. They use it so the infantrymen can learn urban warfare.
>>29840681
Is this loss?
>>29840586
looks like the frame of an old marine Venom
>>29842016
Bing maps versio may look shoddy but it has differences. Cars and missing helicopter frame.
>>29840180
I'm pretty sure it's a helo gunner training range, I've seen a bunch of vids where they use a very similar setup. Here's an example of one, it may be the exact same place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0t6ZhHMRXI
>>29840711
Speaking of Edwards, I live in SoCal and go up to the Angeles Crest and San Bernardino mountains quite a bit. I've seen a bunch of weird shit flying around up there that could only have come from Edwards.
>>29840681
goddamnit
>>29841923
ok yeah you're right, those 4 years of my life were a dream because some faggot marine "infantry" said so
>murray middle school
>borroughs high
>lived on base AND in ridgecrest
>>29842044
that explains all the HEDP 30mm and FFAR craters that completely don't exist anywhere near the site.
>>29840319
oh come on, this isn't even funny
>>29840180
>Over reacting this hard
>>29840180
They do things like CAS testing with the F-35 out at China Lake, including doing things like urban targeting (monitoring and tracking vehicles as they move through a town and then blowing them up the moment they exit).
>>29840180
Google Maps has been known to fuck with the pictures in and around military bases. For example, I'm pretty sure there aren't ten supercarriers currently docked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
>>29842184
>they found our secret carrier fleet in case of Israel emergency
SHUTITDOWN.gif
>>29842184
I could 6 and they're all old. Where are you looking? Can you give coords?
>>29842227
I've verified that the Independence and the Shitty Kitty are there IRL, but I didn't see any other carriers from the road or the ferry. The rest of it is a photoshop job to conceal what ships are actually there. It's all smaller vessels.
>>29840681
This right fucking here.
>>29842107
Hmm, I guess you've got a point there.
I have trouble imagining what else it is, though. It's too remote for a normal MOUT range, and I don't think it's a replica of some real target area because it's been partially but not fully reconfigured in a way that wouldn't make sense. It's also out in the middle of an air weapons range.
Maybe they only use small-caliber weapons on this one? Or maybe it's something like >>29842170 says, where it's for testing tracking and surveillance stuff and not firing weapons at things.
>>29842227
Who is on dry dock?
>>29842246
It's not photoshop, they get moved...
>>29840681
brilliant
and here I was just going to make the houses spell 'UR A FAGET'
I doff my cap to you good sir
>>29842317
I don't get it.
>>29842273
It is a MOUT. Its Mojave Viper and it fucking sucks dick to go through
>>29842339
>>29842363
>mfw I finally get it
>>29842363
Still not seeing it.
>>29842401
it's only the highest form of humor
>>29842425
I guess I really am retarded.
>>29842342
Viper is at Twentynine Palms isn't it? This thing is way up at China Lake.
Anyway, I'm now pretty sure that you guys were right and it was a MOUT facility. This site (http://www.warfightertrainingsystems.com/projects.php) mentions work on a "Darwin Wash MOUT Facility," and sure enough, this thing is right next to a Darwin road and not that far south of the town of Darwin.
36.202943, -117.713743
ok, now what the fuck is this it looks self contained and doesn't look like people are their
>>29842573
Looks like a radar installation to me.
>>29842573
Doppler radar for weather if I had to guess.
>>29840319
>>29840400
Can confirm. Target tracking radar would sit in the middle, TELs and missile loaders in each
>found you MSIC
http://www.ausairpower.net/APA-Rus-SAM-Site-Configs-B.html
that link is the SA-10/20 specifically, different systems have different site setups
>>29842184
>>29842246
You know the images aren't real time? They can be even few years old.
>>29842584
It's right on top of a peak at China Lake so I'd guess it's probably an aircraft tracking thing.
Oldass article, but this website (http://desertpeaks.org/archives/dps02307.htm) says:
>"Coso Peak was on the DPS list for several years but travel to this peak, located 2 miles inside of NWC, was discouraged. Its summit now has a control blockhouse and radar for the Navy's Coso bombing range."
>>29842573
Doppler Radar or some sort of ELINT station.
>>29842682
>It's right on top of a peak at China Lake so I'd guess it's probably an aircraft tracking thing.
Generally aircraft tracking stations have antennas reaching high up into the air without a protective dome to facilitate beyond-the-horizon tracking of aircraft.
>>29842363
God fucking damnit that filename
>>29842698
That's generally true, but there are plenty of tracking radars out there that are in low-set radomes, and this one's also on top of what I assume is the highest peak in the area. (Since it's named and the others around it aren't.) It's also worth pointing out that this would probably be for "local" tracking of aircraft engaged in exercises, not for long-range tracking, and that it's most likely part of a network of radar stations.
>>29842742
seriosly tell me this meme
>>29842682
probably where i was trying to bike to lol
>>29842768
A shitty webcomic mainly meant to be humorous had a story arc about a miscarriage.
The comic was titled "Loss", had no dialogue, and the layout of the 4 panels can be simplified down to
| |i
II IL
As the panels are
>character enters hospital
>character is directed by receptionist
>character asks doctor wtf
>character stands over his wife who is in the fetal position on a hospital bed
Originally a /v/ meme I believe, Loss references have since become a kind of meta internet joke and crop up when you least expect it. Like when. /k/ plays Global Thermonuclear War.
>>29840319
Wtf
>>29840319
>36°12'29.42"N 117°43'16.78"W
Hey i found the same thing 26 miles south of there
35.817012, -117.741607
>>29841720
>nwo
Niggas with optitude disbanded in mid 90's if I'm not mistaken. Nice try though
>>29842573
Looks like an observatory
>>29840681
>>29842184
for good reason. enemy was using google earth to target our base.
>tfw my tent had a dud rocket in the dirt before my deployment
it's a passive kind of feel
>>29844774
I figured it was for opsec. And hey, at least it wasn't a live one with a delayed detonation.
>>29842290
maybe, but its not like googlemaps havent done this before. back in the day when google maps was first out someone found an empty ship dock...but could see the ships shadows on the dock and you could figure out what ships they were
>>29840796
>all kinds of private and dod airfields and companies all over the desert. skunkwork shit that we'll never know about. area 51 is a front, the real testing and research is happening at isolated bases in the middle of God's country
This is true. Area 51/Groom Lake WAS our leading highly classified research facility for aviation stuff, but then everyone found out about it, which ruined the point. Now Groom Lake hosts whatever, and the real skunkworks shit has been moved a bit.
Edwards is still a hotbed for that stuff, though.
>>29840681
... I don't fuckin get it
>>29845012
It's a /v/ meme from like eight years ago.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cadbortion-loss-edits
>>29842246
>Shitty Kitty
Did that ship ever NOT fuck up everything for everyone?
>>29845014
I... I know all about that meme, and I... I ... I couldn't see that for the life of me. Wow. That's... that's fucking abstract. That's... wow. Okay. I'm impressed.
>>29845029
doomguy dosent get enough love. /k/ would love him
>>29845040
/k/ doesn't know about doomguy?
>>29845063
eh, it probably does but i dont really see him too often
>>29845024
Bremerton is home port of the You Dun Goofed fleet.
>the Shitty Kitty
>the Turner Joy, one of the ships from Tonkin Gulf, now a floating museum
>>29845108
Boy Howdy I just found my next shipslut
>>29840319
It's called a hexagram.
>>29841958
spoopy
>>29842016
Look at the fucking name, naval air warfare center
