Showing posts with label Duga-3 radar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Duga-3 radar. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Climbing the Russian Woodpecker

Duga-3 is an enormous Over The Horizon radar array, two of them actually, a 525 foot array for low frequency and another smaller one for higher frequency. The two arrays are associated with and powered by nearby Chernobyl.

The radar is protection from us.

The signal emitters are aimed straight out right past the horizon straight ahead as shown in the key frame, to bounce off the ionosphere and like a bat detect any changes such as rocket launches by the United States.

The site is so huge it is imagined by some to be designed to affect weather. Such is the weather paranoia. Concerns about terrorism have caused militia to appear all around the site to protect it even though it is long deactivated. Located in the Ukraine it is one such Soviet site that is attractive to tourists but now all that is stopped. There are videos of base jumping off the top, extraordinarily dangerous for the veritable cliff of snagging projections.



YouTube member bionerd23 has many more similar investigative videos of Chernobyl and the surrounding area, a lot of poking around testing radiation, exploring structures, examining flora and fauna, cooling ponds, eating apples, exploring the exclusion zone, the cemetery and the like.