Hi again! I would like to come back to the original point of that thread and update those things one more.
As I posted some days ago, after all that interesting discussions we have a little confusion in that debate. Of course we should wait patiently for High Res...but will we ever have some in the foreseeable future?
So to help a further discussion I collected the long range sites again in my post and gave them "stupid" ongoing numbers which have nothing in common with the somewhat confusing "official" identifications.
As I mentioned before, I count seven places and could identify other sat pics of fas.org.
And I also read very carefully the "Soviet Military Power" of 1985, page 47, again.
Apart from their mistake about Pill Box at Pushkino they indicated already 5 Short Range Silo Locations AND 2 Long Range Silo Location - at that time still all under construction. The Long Range places are almost sure at the locations which are reported on "russianforces.org" for Gorgons: Sergiyev Posad and Naro Fominsk. They indicate two other Long Range Sites in the North West of Moscow; most probably they mean with that: Nudol and Klin.
The Overlay provided by one of you in the earlier discussion is comming from fas.org and could identified with Nudol, already.
Some of those pics actually show the same locations. Only one of them I could not identify.
The others (see overlays) are fitting at locations not mentioned before: at Kurilovo (my number 3) and Kolodkino (my number 4) in the south western sector.
But meanwhile I'm not sure that they have something to do with former launching sites. The structures are quite different from the other places.
The "classic" structure is a rectangular one and "Soviet Military Power" speeks from 6 "Try Add" Radars at each emplacement (although "wonderland.org.nz" speeks from only four such Radars, but I think they are wrong: there are 4 in line and 2 at the opposite site in that base structure).
So maybe "fas" is wrong to associate that early pics with Galosh Launching Sites. The only reliable one seem to be for Nudol.
But even if you leave out that two locations there are 5 remaining...and not 4!
So we have that two Gorgons and two old Galosh Sites at Nudol and Klin. But there is another one with that rectangular structure, not shown in any of that pics on "fas.org" -
The problem is, it is also in the near of Sergiyev Posad, but not eastward like the gorgon site (my number 2) but to the north (my number 1). Therfore I'm confused about the real location of "Sergiyev Posad-15" mentioned on "russianforces.org".
Well, four is the traditionally number....but some sources were saying that (to confuse western observers....and obviously the succeeded with that up to day) each of those sites consisted of actually two sites close together (appr. 10km). And that each of them had 8 Galosh and not 16.
Well...any response will help me in that ongoing "passion". Best Regards


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