Nuclear missile mines, ships and air bases: Google Maps reveals high-quality satellite images of strategic objects of the Russian Federation (UPD)

All military and strategic objects in Russia are now available in maximum resolution in the Google Maps service. The first to draw attention to this was the publication Defense Express.

From now on, a variety of intercontinental ballistic missile launchers, command posts, secret training grounds, and more can be viewed with a resolution of approximately 0.5 meters per pixel.

It is known that before that they were displayed at times worse quality, which did not allow you to see the details.

Therefore, now there is an opportunity to look at the nuclear weapons storage base near Murmansk.

You can also assess the "progress" of work on the only Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.

In addition, it is now possible to identify the launch position of an intercontinental ballistic missile from space.

You can also evaluate how the Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter looks from satellite at the flight test center of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Or take a look at the Nenox test site, where a secret Burevestnik missile with a nuclear power plant exploded.

At the same time, the publication noted that such images are unlikely to have strategic value, since military satellites have a much better resolution. However, from now on, any civilian user has the opportunity to "wander" through secret places of the Russian Federation.

UPD. Subsequently, Google denied that it had opened access to Russian military facilities on its Maps. Representatives of the company told about this in the comments to the Verge. In particular, Google claims that they did not make any changes, and their maps contained detailed satellite images of Russian military bases for a long time.