[Video 2:30m] showing the ruins of the "Russian Woodpecker", The bain of the SW bands

Submitted by W2PAW on Fri, 07/31/2015 - 22:07
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Published on Jul 31, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbi6eoh63ZQ
This is the Duga-3 array, inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It's an incredible piece of Soviet engineering, capable of sending radar pulses so powerful they could see over the horizon. Which, when you think about it, is more complicated than it might initially appear...