Secret Military Bases Exposed by Russian Satellite Map Company

Secret Military Bases Exposed by Russian Satellite Map Company
This undated satellite image from Yandex Maps shows a blurred out signals intelligence facility in Israel, located north of Tel Aviv, Israel. Yandex Maps
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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A Russian mapping service has meticulously blurred out a number of sensitive sites, but, by doing so, has inadvertently revealed the locations of top-secret military bases.

Yandex Maps, Russia’s equivalent to Google Maps, obscured the locations of hundreds of sites in Israel and Turkey, according to a report by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), prompting satellite image analysts to investigate.
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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