Google Earth spots classified Chinese submarine

Posted on July 8, 2007
Filed Under Military Technology |

New super-secret Chinese ballistic-missile Jin-class submarine docked at a Xiaopingdao naval base in China has been discovered by using Google Earth. Here is the image.

New super-secret Chinese ballistic-missile Jin-class submarine

If we start imagining how much of vital intelligence information can be discovered in public domain by using tools like Google Earth, we may come to several assumptions:

Here is another example of sensitive documents found online, if the word “sensitive” proper describes the leak that can cost lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. These are rather deadly sensitive documents.

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2 Responses to “Google Earth spots classified Chinese submarine”

  1. Microsoft Virtual Earth spots classified Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine | Venture Itch on August 27th, 2007 2:21 pm

    [...] Two month ago, in a similar incident, Google Earth had embarassed Chinese military by discovering classified Chinese submarine. Sphere: Related [...]

  2. SadPanda on October 2nd, 2007 9:46 am

    “And experts said foreign intelligence agencies and terrorists working with al-Qaida likely know where to look.” FFS, you REALLY need to be an expert to know this?

    What do you even mean by that: foreigners can only read information if our experts agree that they can?

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