Chernobyl-2
Military Over the Horizon Radar
of Type "DUGA"
Only two of them existed in the whole
USSR, the second near the city of Komsomolsk(or Nikolaevsk)-na-Amure.
It's height is 150 meters and about a kilometer width.
After the reactor explosion, the installation was switched off
Some of the electronic equipment was transferred to the Nikolaevsk-na-Amure
base, and others.
This is the receiver installation; the transmitting was 60 kilometers
away in Lubech, Ukraine ("Rozsudiv"). The transmitting
aerial was destroyed in the late 1990s, disassembled and sold
as scrap metal.
Now year 2007, this antenna aerial is being prepared for disassembly
and scrapping. It is not possible to visit this antenna.
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