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Chernobyl-2 "Russian Woodpecker" - OTH Radar of type "DUGA-3"The city Chernobyl-2 is located northwest of the small town of Chernobyl in Polissia region of Ukraine, but it is impossible to find on any topographical map. Exploring the maps, you are likely to find a symbol for a children's boarding house, or a dotted line of forest roads on a place of accommodation of the town, but no reference to urban and technical buildings. In the USSR, they were able to hide a secret, even more so if it was a military secret.
Was a secret military soviet over-the-horizon radar base that could detect Soviet-bound rocket launches in the United States. Only two of them existed in the whole USSR, the second being near the city of Komsomolsk(or Nikolaevsk)-na-Amure. After the reactor explosion, the installation received extensive amount of radioactive pollution and was switched off and abandoned. Some of the electronic equipment was transferred to the Nikolaevsk-na-Amure base, and other parts were looted. Detail information (photos and maps of town) on www.chornobyl.in.ua/en/chernobyl-2.htm This is the receiver installation; the transmitting aerial was 60 kilometers away in Lubech, Ukraine (also known as "Rozsudiv"). The transmitting aerial was destroyed in the late 1990s, disassembled and sold as scrap metal. Now, in mid-2007, this antenna aerial is being prepared for disassembly and scrapping. It is not possible to visit this antenna. On Russian high quality 'genshtabs' maps there's a mark that it's a Young Pioneer (Scout) Camp: mapstor.com/mapstorfile.php?file=100k--m36-025.gif Here are some "terrestrial" pictures of the giant antenna array: http:// www.flickr.com/photos/39169114@N00/ pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1384.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1383.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1382.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1381.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/2/1380.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/2/1379.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/2/1378.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/2/1377.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1629.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1627.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1625.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1624.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1619.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1509.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1508.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1391.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1390.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1388.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1387.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1386.html pripyat.com/ru/internet_photo/chernobyl_2/1/1385.html more pictures: pripyat.com//sm/site/photogallery/uploads/1376/  place comments:
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