Duga 3 Does NOT Exist And Here's Why

this video is a small deviation from the current series on the volunweber circularly disposed antenna arrays we've been looking at recently you all seem to be enjoying those videos and the feedback has been great but I need to address something that's been niggling at me for a long time duga 3 does not exist you know the duga radar the Woodpecker the Chernobyl antenna the Over the Horizon radar thingy and Call of Duty call it what you like but duga 3 does not never has and never will exist and I'm going to tell you why since the Call of Duty game and the urbex phenomenon that is Chernobyl has gained a cult following in recent years I hear the name duga 3 being banded around on forums social media YouTube videos with millions of views and even news websites the name duga 3 is used frequently even in the comments of some of my videos when talking about the Woodpecker or that famous duga Over the Horizon radar array that Towers out of the forest near Chernobyl within the Chernobyl exclusion Zone oh and another thing we associate the Woodpecker with this array but this structure is in fact only the receive site with the transmit site being demolished many years ago but fair enough this imagery is all we have left the fact of the matter is that duga 3 has never existed and here's where the confusion lies the Soviet Union had been working on early radar for their ballistic missile systems throughout the 1950s and 1960s but most of these were line of sight systems that were really only useful for Rapid analysis and interception none of these systems had the capability to provide an upper hand in the form of an early warning of a launch within seconds or minutes that would give the Soviet defenses time to stutter the attack and Plano response as a conventional radar can only see as far as the Horizon the duga Radars bounce their signals off the ionosphere enabling it to see Over the Horizon and Over the Horizon radar in the USSR would help solve all of these problems and work began in the late 1960s an important thing to remember is that all of the radar sites built as part of the Soviet Union's Over the Horizon radar development and rollout is that each radar had two sites a transmitter and a receiver the first experimental system associated with duga was built outside the black seaport of my colliev in southern Ukraine this successfully detected rocket launches from baikon or cosmodrome 1600 miles away after the experimental system was deemed to be successful enough to continue the program the Prototype duga was built on the same site that was able to track launches from the Far East and submarines in the Pacific Ocean this is the transmitter site remember these things come in pairs the transmitter bounced the signal off the ionosphere and the receiver site captured The Echoes coming back nothing but a concrete foundation remains now but this would have been home to a massive radar similar to the famous one we see at Chernobyl with all of the radio transmitter equipment being housed inside large buildings the output power of this site isn't known but it would have been extremely powerful requiring a big electricity Supply and high power transmitters the array would have been at least 200 meters long by about 25 meters wide today the site is still used for radio and it looks like either broadcast or military 60 miles to the north of the transmitter is the receive site for the experimental duga system that sits Northeast of my colliev like the transmitter site this has been completely removed it measured at least 350 meters long by 40 meters wide so it was considerably bigger than the transmitter to enable Optimum receive capability next to the array is the former site of a Soviet Krug circularly disposed antenna array that was used for HF Direction finding and have done a full series on these which you can find in the description below and at the end of this video both the experimental and the first prototype duga systems were aimed East and were fairly low powered compared to what came next with the concept proven work began on an operational system this new system was called Google one and was built in 1972. due to its use of higher power the transmit and received sights were separated by 37 miles this would prevent the receive site from being overwhelmed by the transmission signal this is the duga one transmitter site sat in secluded Forest 31 miles Northeast of Chernobyl west of shaniv and south of gomel nothing remains today except the building and the concrete base has been reclaimed by Nature so it's hard to tell how big the array itself actually was just south in thick Woodland is a clearing that houses the equipment to power the massive antenna system now we come to a familiar site the receiver Ray for doogle one this is the world famous Mega structure that lies within the Chernobyl exclusion Zone Northwest of Chernobyl south of Minsk and Northwest of Kiev it's been the subject of documentaries news reports YouTube videos Urban exploration websites and everything in between this is commonly mislabeled as either the dugatransmitter or duga 3. this thing is colossal measuring Gainer over 700 meters long and 150 meters tall it's the only preserved Relic from the Soviet duga Over the Horizon radar project because the area is deemed too dangerous to go in for long periods of time to take it down deep in the forest to the Southwest is another Soviet thick eight and fix 24 Direction finding site that is the only one left in a state of decent preservation our last pair of radar sites is known as duga2 dugatu was near to consumolsk on Amor in kaverov's cry in Russia with the receiver being 4 235 miles away from the dugar one receiver near Chernobyl in Ukraine this site still appears to being used by the military today but all trace of the huge radar receive site that would have been very similar to the one at Chernobyl has gone military vehicles and a helipad can be seen on the ground not far from the large concrete base nearby another Soviet volenweber Circle concrete base can be seen in the forest 40 miles to the southeast is the duga 2 transmitter site this was used up until recently as a radio site but has now been completely demolished making it hard to tell that such a large transmitter site once stood here so I'll leave you here at the sixth location of the third site of the fourth Soviet Over the Horizon radar related to the name duga yeah it's easy to see where the confusion came from but there you have it there was only dooga1 and duga 2 after the experimental Over the Horizon radar and the Prototype duga 3 does not and has not ever existed thank you [Music]

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Length: 7min 48sec (468 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 26 2023