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Help with identifying runway details

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This isn't about any particular sim or development tool, so I hope it's OK to post here in General chat.

I'm working on some details for runway textures on my EGYP RAF Mount Pleasant scenery for MSFS (you can find it on fs.to if you are interested). What with this being a remote military base I've struggled to find good reference pics for some items. I've only recently getting deep into airport design, and I'm unsure what the following details are. Can anyone help with the items highlighted in red, green and blue, this is a screencap from this YT video.

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These are repeated along the runway edges and I want to add these into my scenery. Obviously I could just blindly make some textures based on what I can see in the video , but I'd like to know what they are! My best guess is:

RED: disused runway edge lighting concrete mount/base, some examples look pretty damaged and disused. Spaced between these (not shown in that image) are what I think are the current runway edge lights on short stands. Edit: but on 2nd thought I'm not sure those stands look big enough to be runway lights (yellow circle below).
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GREEN: embedded edge lights or maybe reflectors?
BLUE: if green is edge lights, maybe blue is a maintenance cover for the edge lights? (since blue/green seem to always be in close proximity). Or I was wondering if they are manhole covers for drainage.

Any help is much appreciated!
 
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Here are flush end lights at RAF Lossiemouth and it looks like the black patches are contrast panels to make the lights more visible in daylight.

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You'll want to bear in mind there are both high intensity and medium intensity approach lights. Usually they just dim the high intensity lights, but they could be seperate. Also the big yellow painted circles at either end of the runway mark a single arrestor wire used for trapping UAV's - it's not an emergency arrestor and in fact can bounce from under a front tire and snag centerline stores. So, emergency only if you can trap a single wire and you have no drop tank or ords.
 
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