New Research Paper on Pine Gap

The Nautilus Institute has recently released a report on Pine Gap, the US spy base in central Australia.

Haven't had a chance to go over much yet, but I'm sure it will be of interest to some.

And probably covers a lot we already knew too I guess.

Anyway, here's the link..

nautilus.org...

Enjoy

Spying on the spies…

lemmee guess. A bunch of white domes hiding which direction the dish antennas are pointing?

a reply to: intrptr

It at least has provided a lot of good photos of the compound, I doubt many have seen them


Main compound from north,
Felicity Ruby, 23 January 2016

Possibilities and effects of a nuclear missile attack on Pine Gap

Very interesting read

originally posted by: Chadwickus
The Nautilus Institute has recently released a report on Pine Gap, the US spy base in central Australia.

Haven't had a chance to go over much yet, but I'm sure it will be of interest to some.

And probably covers a lot we already knew too I guess.

Anyway, here's the link..

nautilus.org...

Enjoy

what's the point in posting this, if you can't even be bothered to read it before you start a thread on it?

Lazy poor thread !

a reply to: rigel4

I saw it just as I was heading out last night.

Just putting it out there for others to have a look too.

What else could I have said anyway?

a reply to: Chadwickus

Thanks for bringing the pic…

gosh dang look it all that techno antenna farm…

a reply to: Chadwickus

Newer, quieter diesel subs armed with cruise missiles are but a couple minutes from anywhere.

Almost no lag time and certainly no warning.

Russians showed their capability from the Caspian sea.

a reply to: intrptr

Not sure if you're being sarcastic here or not?

Kind of related but not really... what about Woomera? Does the US do (SAP) testing there? Taranis was tested there by the UK.

a reply to: BlackDog10

I'd imagine they do.

Zaphod probably would know if this were the case or not

Finally, Pine Gap appears to have acquired a FORNSAT/COMSAT (foreign satellite / communications satellite) interception function in the early 2000s. This was probably presaged with the arrival of Service Cryptological Agency (SCA) elements at the end of the 1990s. Two 23-metre dishes suitable for COMSAT SIGINT Development (Sigdev) were installed inside 30-metre radomes in 1999-2000. A Torus multi-beam antenna was installed at Pine Gap in 2008.

Fancy.

Not a lot of content, but at least they didn't invoke HAARP.

There are some really interesting installations on the coast sort of in the northwest, too.

a reply to: Bedlam

Geraldton (echelon) I know of, as well as Exmouth (Harold Holt) and JORN..

Are there others?

Carnarvon?

Derby?

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Bedlam

Geraldton (echelon) I know of, as well as Exmouth (Harold Holt) and JORN..

Are there others?

Carnarvon?

Derby?

Four out of five ain't bad...

CSB: once upon a time, an Italian comm theory professor once told me "You are a big redneck. You will fit right in Australia. Because everyone who lives there is just like you"

He was teasing me, but he was right. I actually like NT and WA.

Oddly, Francesco ended up working for the most awful divisions of MITRE and Sandia, so he didn't have any room to talk.

a reply to: Bedlam

My money is on Derby, Carnarvon might be a red herring for me due to its role in the Apollo missions!

a reply to: Chadwickus

Not at all. Look close at your pic at all the antennas…

and I don't mean just the big white dishes. Most of that complex is dedicated to commo of one sort or another.

Do you see?

a reply to: intrptr

Yeah of course it is, that's its entire purpose.

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: intrptr

Yeah of course it is, that's its entire purpose.

Spying on everyone, nosey bastards…

originally posted by: Chadwickus
a reply to: Bedlam

Geraldton (echelon) I know of, as well as Exmouth (Harold Holt) and JORN..

Are there others?

Carnarvon?

Derby?

You know that JORN isn't anything to do with ECHELON or SIGINT gathering right? It's the over-the-horizon radar system monitoring our northern air approaches, I'm fairly sure that it can monitor as far north as Singapore, however, I'm probably mistaken on that.

a reply to: AussieNutter

Indeed. I was just listing the interesting places found in the North West