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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ukulele on 16 Nov, 2019, 10:13:29 pm

Title: What is it?
Post by: Ukulele on 16 Nov, 2019, 10:13:29 pm

In the Sierra Cabrera , beyond Cortijo Grande, but clearly visible from the motorway and the Turre  road, a huge installation has appeared. Not sure when.  Not been down there for a few months. It looks like a strange rectangular mast, and maybe some low buildings too.

Anybody any idea what it is for?

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: FOGGY on 17 Nov, 2019, 09:40:53 pm

5g maybe

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: BRIMAR on 18 Nov, 2019, 11:21:43 am

Was this what you saw? (Not my photos, taken from a walking blog I recently read)
If so, it's probably as Foggy says, a telecommunications tower which you saw.

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Ukulele on 18 Nov, 2019, 01:49:24 pm

I think it probably is,what I saw from a much greater distance.

I was talking to a Spanish man in Turre, who told me that it was a new important part of the NATO defence against electronic warfare.

He said, he had seen parts for it being delivered by jump jets!!!

I do hope he was just trying to "pull my leg".

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: frankie on 18 Nov, 2019, 02:46:22 pm

I assume it wasn't  the new Women's wing of the prison near Almeria?  I don't usually go to Almeria via the motorway as it is more direct to go over the top of the mountain and via Tabernas but when I went last time via the motorway I could see that there are a lot of new buildings attached to the prison.

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Ukulele on 18 Nov, 2019, 04:19:23 pm

Nope, the installation is on its own, at the top of a mountain in the Sierra Cabreras, just a bit south of Turre. :tiphat:

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: BRIMAR on 18 Nov, 2019, 04:35:54 pm

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I was talking to a Spanish man in Turre, who told me that it was a new important part of the NATO defence against electronic warfare.

Not pulling your leg.

La Estación de Cerro Mezquita is part of a military spy network.

Seems there has been some sort of Ministry of Defence facility there for some years but has recently been added to.

https://cadenaser.com/emisora/2018/05/17/ser_almeria/1526544246_591484.html

Title: Re: What is it?
Post by: Ukulele on 18 Nov, 2019, 04:47:29 pm

Thanks for that.

Not too sure I like living so close, to what may be an important, strategic military target  :shocked: