Satellite Imagery of New Russian Helicopter Base/Landing Strip North of Crimea



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49 thoughts on “Satellite Imagery of New Russian Helicopter Base/Landing Strip North of Crimea”

  1. Wow, a long posting from you there Suchomimus! Very interesting the Russians appear to expend a lot of effort into defensive positions. Lacking confidence in a positive outcome, methinks! Thanks for your update, AJ

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  2. I've built temporary heliports. None was built on mud, all had a hardcore base. Military hele's weigh a lot more than the 4 seaters I worked with. I would guess they would only be usable if the ground was frozen or baked hard.

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  3. The general layout of the South Kherson defenses look incredibly naive. Why do they think that a position needs to straddle a road to block the road? Why do they think that attack axes are the same as supply routes? Once again, this looks performative: for an audience of maybe 1, or 2 at most.

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  4. What happened to all the Himars – it has been very quite lately – is it that Russia has wiped out a number if these or have they out.

    You would have thought that The Glorious Ukrainians would have attacked deep behind the Russian Lines and taken on the Airbases in Crimea!

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  5. When I see more than one vehicle track it's Storage. More likely weapons and less likely Water.
    This is one of the few routes into Crimea. The first defense will be to blow the bridges. An operating Defense base would make sense.
    But, of course, there may have been a General paid $50 million to build a $500,000 helicopter base and it's just dirt.

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  6. I had a feeling they were gonna militarize the spits everywhere around Crimea. Ukraine has drones for the confirmation of bases and artillery to make them no more. Glory to the heros glory to Ukraine.

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  7. 4:09 Russia is supposedly going to beef up that road along the beach as a second major artery in/out of Crimea, it could be a defensive base for that road or staging area for construction vehicles for the project…

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  8. The more such things that we see the more emphatic it becomes that Ukraine concentrate more effective effort against Russian logistics / supply. The ability to deprive Russian forces of supply will become more and more pivotal in the next weeks and months.

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  9. I looked these up on Bing maps, only 3.75 miles apart. Even more interesting is what is on the east side of that field. This is a coastal beach/resort area with tourist traps/attractions. Rows of rental cottages, a few small amusement parks, a kite surfing school, and even a safari park. I think remember a news story about the safari park and how it struggled after the 2014 invasion.

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  10. I think the second position could be a defensive position. Even though the Ukrainians don't have to go straight through it, they would have to neutralize it in order to pass by.
    It makes a lot of sense for the Russians to build small heliports that might go unnoticed in order to quickly meet to reload and refuel somewhere closer to the front lines instead of flying all the way back to base. They might have a bunch of them that the helicopters rotate around so that they can't be targeted efficiently because the target is so fleeting and Ukrainian ranged weapons work best against fixed locations.

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