Object "Chernobyl-2". Flight leftside about the construction - 4K 影片檔

Soviet over the horizon radar system for early detection of launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Until the mid-1980s, it was a top-secret facility allows tracking of high-altitude targets at a distance of 900 to 3,000 kilometers in the circumpolar region. With the help of powerful and cutting-edge at the time military radar could, in the truest sense of the word, to look beyond the horizon. This complex was named "Duga-1". Dimensions huge antenna height from 100 to 150 meters, length of 700 meters. At this size, the object is visible from almost anywhere in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. On active duty was 2000 officers. Nearby is a military garrison with complete infrastructure for life.Because of the characteristic sound (knock) in air, was named Russian Woodpecker. Another called it a military facility - "Eye of Moscow". After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, "Chernobyl-2" facility has ceased to carry on combat duty. For a long time about the secret project "Chernobyl-2" near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant there is a myth that it is the device for manipulation mind of people.