AAA battery

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AAA battery
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Coordinates:   38°5'32"N   126°22'51"E

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  • What does the third "A" stand for? I would expect it to be "AA battery."
  • AAA - Anti Aircraft Artillery. North Koreans are using many types of AA guns, from copies/clones of Soviet 23mm ZU-23 rapid-fire guns to 130mm KS-30 high altitude heavy guns. Most heavy, stationary AAA batteries are equiped with North Korean and Chinese copies of Soviet-style 100mm KS-19 AA gun. Such a classic AAA batteries were found to be suprisingly effective in Kosovo and Iraq conflicts.
  • There is no way of being sure what the hell it is without clearer pictures. An AA battery or a bording school, you just cant tell...
  • It's not so hard to tell wheter this is an air defence battery or not. Such military instalations, static ones particularly, are standardized. There are standard plans and patterns of such sites. Early Corona spysat photos were far more inferior to that imagery, and they were black and white only. The same applies to side-directed cameras of infamous U-2 spyplanes, early versions of course. But such sites were detectable then, thanks to standardized site patterns. And what can we see here? Standard, early, Soviet-style, heavy AAA battery pattern. Some of such sites later evolved into SAM sites, when size of SAM launchers became small enough to replace AA guns.
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