{"id":1011,"date":"2010-04-25T19:27:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T11:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2010-04-25T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T12:14:45","slug":"corona-satellite-images-of-taiwan-sam-sites-corona%e7%9c%bc%e4%b8%ad%e7%9a%84%e5%8f%b0%e7%81%a3%e9%98%b2%e7%a9%ba%e9%a3%9b%e5%bd%88%e9%99%a3%e5%9c%b0-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"CORONA Satellite Images of Taiwan SAM Sites (CORONA\u773c\u4e2d\u7684\u53f0\u7063\u9632\u7a7a\u98db\u5f48\u9663\u5730) Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All black-and-white images were taken by either CORONA KH-4A Mission 1035 on Sept 27, 1966, or KH-4B Mission 1106 on Feb 11, 1969.  Color images are courtesy of Google Earth.  The information on the SAM sites was provided by the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/geimint.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/taiwans-sam-network.html\" target=_blank>IMINIT &#038; Analysis<\/a> blog.  \u9019\u88e1\u7684\u9ed1\u767d\u7167\u7247\u90fd\u662f\u7f8e\u570b\u7684CORONA\u885b\u661f\u57281966\u5e749\u6708\u76841035\u865f\u4efb\u52d9\u62161969\u5e742\u6708\u76841106\u865f\u4efb\u52d9\u4e2d\u62cd\u651d\u7684\u3002\u5f69\u8272\u7684\u90e8\u4efd\u5247\u662fGoogle Earth\u63d0\u4f9b\u3002\u6240\u6709\u98db\u5f48\u9663\u5730\u7684\u4f4d\u7f6e\u8cc7\u8a0a\u90fd\u662f\u900f\u904e<a href=\"http:\/\/geimint.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/taiwans-sam-network.html\" target=_blank>IMINIT &#038; Analysis<\/a>\u9019\u500b\u90e8\u843d\u683c\u516c\u958b\u53d6\u5f97\uff0c\u6240\u4ee5\u7121\u77e5\u7684\u5b98\u54e1\u4e0d\u8981\u5927\u9a5a\u5c0f\u602a\u6216\u7121\u7aef\u64fe\u6c11\u3002<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Jinshan (\u91d1\u5c71) HAWK site (+25\u00b0 15&#8242; 34.56&#8243;, +121\u00b0 37&#8242; 17.19&#8243;)<\/b>\n<p>Not much can been on this 1966 image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jinshan_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The site appeared to have become operational in 1969:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jinshan_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It remains active nowadays:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jinshan_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li><b>Tamshui (\u6de1\u6c34) Nike-Hercules site (+25\u00b0 14&#8242; 4.33&#8243;, +121\u00b0 26&#8242; 57.55&#8243;)<\/b>\n<p>The battery had taken shape by 1966:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The quality of the 1969 KH-4B imagery was so good that you can even count the missiles:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nike-Hercules SAMs have since retired.  Today, the site is occupied by the indigenous Tien Kung (\u5929\u5f13) missiles:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<li><b>Tamshui (\u6de1\u6c34) HAWK site (+25\u00b0 12&#8242; 12.09&#8243;, +121\u00b0 25&#8242; 40.72&#8243;)<\/b>\n<p>It is hard to tell if the site had become operational in 1966:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui2_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The launch pads are visible in the 1969 image:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui2_1969.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The arrangement of the launch pads has changed little for the past forty years.  As of the writing of this post, it remains an active HAWK battery:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/tamshui2_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All black-and-white images were taken by either CORONA KH-4A Mission 1035 on Sept 27, 1966, or KH-4B Mission 1106 on Feb 11, 1969. Color images are courtesy of Google Earth. 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