Hiding military assets on Yandex maps

Kronstadt copy–move

Yle reported that Yandex Maps hid a Russian missile battery near Kronstadt by copying forest over the site in a satellite image. The vehicle above is a Bal coastal-missile launcher, the kind of system kept at that battery. Read the Yle story.

Photo: Anton Vaganov / Reuters, via Yle. Navy Day parade, Kronstadt, 30 July 2017.

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