Strange Octagon Compound
UPDATE: Never mind turned out it’s in Saudi Arabia! Don’t know how I missed that minor detail! Also turned out to be the King Khalid Military City. Pretty cool.
Does anyone know what this strange middle of nowhere octagon compound is? It’s located right in the middle of the Kuwaiti desert and it looks huge. The more you zoom in the more you realize how many buildings there and a ton of parking spaces. I’m thinking military but it seems too big to be just that.
You can check it out yourself on Google Maps [Here]
Don’t forget to zoom in!
Someone also made the video below.
[YouTube]
Mar 4, 2012
It’s called King Khalid Military City (KKMC)
Looks like it is in the middle of the Saudi desert.
Mark, this is in the Saudi desert near Hafr al Batin. Guess it must be an oil industry huge compound with residential as well as office buildings and other facilities.
god damn how did i miss that? i zoomed out and i could swear i saw it in Kuwait lol
FAIL!
Happens to the best of’em ! :P
it’s not like i mixed up between hawalli and salmiya, the distance from this base to Kuwait is HUGE.
How did you find it anyway ?!
found the video first, then plugged in the coordinates from the video and ended at the compound. I zoomed out to see where in kuwait it was and someone thought it was west of bnaider in the middle of the desert.
if it makes u feel any better, that region used to be Kuwaiti land i think ;/
lol
The Dharma Initiative
looooool the swan station
Mark, I see others have already ID’d it but, I selected the Wiki option on my map and provided this -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Khalid_Military_City
Ken
It IS the Dharma initiative hidden station XD
run mark, you know too much, they are coming to get you :P the Saudi response to the U.S Pentagon? haha classy :P
I wish this place was there in Red Alert 2 :D
Tell you what it is…since most of the terrorists of 9/11 were Saudi (go figure), they did a mock up of The Pentagon…for their training of course.
I wonder how come google maps get away with exposing such vital structures!
Could it be the new design for a UFC cage???
Saudi army hired the UFC for a top secret project to turn ordinary men into lethal fighting machines!
I’d watch that.
I used to work there in the 80s. KKMC was built to house 70000 troops. On the inside of the octagon are tower blocks for junior ranks, as you go to the outer parts the buildings get lower until on the outside there are villas to house the officers. The place is massive, it even produces its own power. In the first Gulf war most of the armoured divisions on the way to Kuwait staged there. Iraq even tried to hit the place with a SCUD but hit the local town (Hatr Al Batin) instead.
In b4 its another area 51