Local Firm in Hot Water?
A Henrietta company that supplies imaging software and aerial photography has possibly blown the cover on one of the secrets of the cold war - the propellor design of a ballistic missile submarine.
Aerial photos taken by Pictometry clearly show the propellor design, and are freely available on the Internet from Microsoft Virtual Earth.
A photograph of a sensitive piece of Navy technology - the propellor of a ballistic missile submarine - now appears on the internet…
“Yes, that is an Ohio-class submarine, either an SSBN or SSGN, in dry dock in the Pacific Northwest at the intermediate maintenance facility on the Naval Submarine Base Kitsap-Bangor,†he said (Lt. Cmdr. Chris Loundermon, submarine force public affairs officer.)
Question: Why didn’t the Navy cover the props when the sub was in dry dock?
Why would pictometry be in hot water? Spy satellites can’t pick this up as it was apparently left out in the open?
Anyone from Pictometry care to comment? You know how to reach us.
If you want to really go after someone, go after google street view imagery. At least with Pictometry you can’t see faces.
I’m not going after them at all, I don’t think they’re to blame, this is just news…
They’re in trouble because the US Navy f*ck*d up? Throwing a tarp or camouflage net over something you don’t want to be discovered from the air has been basic military technique since the American Civil War. If some poor dumb civilian imaging company can pick this stuff up, it’s no odds that the Russians and the Chinese (the countries interested in U.S. submarine design) knew about the design years ago.
Where the hell was Homeland Security? Aren’t we paying for the privilege of the prop? How stupid, after all, are they?
Goes along the line of reasoning of not being able to find Bin Laden. A 6′4″ tall Saudi running around on a pack mule in the foot hills of Pakistan with a portable kidney dialysis unit strapped to his back and they can’t find him…
…yet they can read the year off a penny held in the palm of a hand at a super bowl - from space.
Or have exposed (innocently I’m certain) the military secrets of a nuclear naval base.
Somebody wake me up when this “Ground-Hog Day” version of “Back To The Future” is over.