The secret Soviet radar hidden in Chernobyl’s shadow - BBC REEL
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- In a remote forest, a few kilometres from the Chernobyl power plant, the huge Duga-2 radar tower stands as relic of Soviet mismanagement.
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2:01 “I learned it’s construction was carried out by the ministry of medium machine building”
Jesus what did the ministry of large machine building get up to?
Dead here 🤣🤣🤣
"The Ministry of General(Large) Machine Building" oversaw all `Space exploration`. On September 17, 1991, the Ministry was wound up, passing on their duties to the newly established "Federal Space Agency Roskosmos",.........The Russians are very clever but many of the contributions are not credited and forgotten in the west.
@@quietstormvalley9010 ✔️
I'm dead, this comment is hilarious
Gundams maybe haha
So this is where Adler died.
Not exactly. It was elsewhere. That ending isn't canon lol. Did like this mission though.
@@RebelGaming4U Depends, it could be Bell died here (if you not set up the ambush), or Adler and the crew if you ambush them
Only in the evil ending
Yep
@@RebelGaming4U what is canon ending btw?
"Your were a fool to trust me. Typical American Arrogance."
- "Bell" 1981
@Sgt Soviet dude stfu
@Sgt Soviet were there underground complexes?
@Brandon Munson and stop commenting on every comment like wth your just trying to make people hate you
“ “
Bell ,1981
@Brandon Munson yea brandon stfu.....
"I knew it. Bell fcking lied to us." - Onion Woods
I’m a goddamn onion mason, you should know that
That true bell? You have brought us out of nowhere Russia so Perseus could detonate those nukes!?
now that it´s in verdansk the algorithm is on it again
West always stolen USSR,Russian and nazi technology,west used Jewish scientists who escaped Germany. VTOL,stealth flying wings,laser,vsat ect you name it.
The amount of power the thing must have consumed. No wonder they built it right next to a power plant
that's why the plant was destroyed to stop the radar operation.
@@ttss1415 delete your post asap.
@@ttss1415 LmaO
FuMe Dse well it was nice knowing him rip
@Land and Lore Photograph Off Road Adventures All 4 would easily have needed 500kW, but that is not that much, it could easily be provided by one diesel generator per site.
Went to Chernobyl in January and the Duga was part of the tour. It’s a very intimidating structure when stood underneath it. It was a brilliant tour and one I’d recommend anyone doing.
Me and my step daughter were looking at taking the trip over after lockdown in the UK, but no chance of that anytime soon with Russia invading...
THIS AGED WELL. I believe that the Russians now occupy this region. Currently at the time of this post.
🥶
@@OffGridInvestor They left as the making of this comment, some russian soldiers in chernobyl were sent into hospitals for acute radiation poisoning due to them digging trenches in danger zones despite the workers from the plant warning them
Little late for us unfortunately. I think any trips for cold war buffs to russia, ukraine, Belarus, kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Georgia and so on will be too dangerous for western europens and north Americans though i hope i go and experience these historic sites one day
Who's here after betraying Adler?
Better than being killed by him
adler betraying bell
He betrayed me first
I didn't see it as betraying Adler, "Bell" already had a mission 😉
whats this all about?
Comments :
Adler ✔️
Chernobyl ❌
Heard some CIA agents got clapped here by a Soviet Agent, how *Pathetic*
nah bro adler lives on
And then wiped out half of europe and America got blamed
It isn't canon tho 😳
The problem with this report is that it WAS effective. It might not have been *efficient* but it did work. They were able to use it to detect rocket launches on multiple occasions. Its smaller precursor, Duga, was tested by pointing it at Baikonur. So the technology does work. It wasn't a "failure", technology just advanced so quickly that smaller and better radars were available not long after Duga-2 was built.
Right, and that could be said about anything built at any time. The phone on which I type this is already obsolete.
Interesting, the radar cross section of a missile would be very tiny in the amateur bands. I guess they overcame this problem by transmitting gargantuan power levels and using very sensitive receivers.
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Another problem with this report is there are 2 structures still standing. This is the transmitter located northeast of chernobyl. The other is Duga 3 the receiver south of chernobyl.
@@williamstamper442 the transmitter is also DUGA 2.
Transmitter and receiver counts as one unit
Also are you sure, that this footage isn't the receiver at Chernobyl?
I'm not 100% sure but I think due the transmitter in Lyubech wasn't nearby the contamination zone, it got dismounted in 2000, because the radar was shutdown after April 26 1986
Adler: "You brought us to middle-of-nowhere Russia so Perseus can detonate those nukes?"
Bell: "You underestimated me, goodbye Adler (signals ambush)"
*Plays WaW's Soviet Theme*
It’s actually Ukraine
@@Bamiyanbigasf I mean, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union at the time so I would guess that it counts
for the motherland
a little retribution for motherland
"They still think that I'm Persues"
"So American"
@Brandon Munson lol sure
@Brandon Munson oh shut up
@Brandon Munson
How old are you?
Bruh what did this brandon guy say
yes
Goodbye Adler ✊🏻⬇️
"I've got a job to do Adler." By far my fav line in the game
Remember: No American.
@@derangedgod4440 That context makes me think you didn't play MW2
@@MaggotAddict21 You are right, I only watched the gameplay. It's just a reference to the memes.
Detonate the nukes a new soviet-era begins.
Everyone here´s talking about COD.
Me, an Intellectual: This is the Brainscorcher from S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Been looking for this comment 👍
Da na drug
brain scorcher
brain scorcher
runnin out of time...
better get that switch or imma zombie for all time
All those cod plebs.
This is from PUBG 😁
I visited it a couple years ago, the scale of it walking underneath is amazing. The tour guide mentioned one of the reasons the whole project shut down was all 3 needed to be online together to triangle icbms. With Chernobyl messing up duga, the array was useless.
Wait, this isn't Solovetsky
Never was. **signal ambush**
200th like :>
Interesting story. Soviet Union has always been a fascinating topic for me
This is old as time it self. You're not intrested, you're a robot without opinion, bye! :)
@@MRTRNgaming You're.
@@philipcooper8297 Corrected.
It's fascinating when you haven't experienced it. It all started with bolshevik revolution in Russia and genocide of russian people.. Then spread around Europe.. Raping, stealing, corruption.
@@NLS_7 Im more like fascinating that this secret that BBC Reel is out there.For long long time.
" Duga, Sims get Washington on the line, Everyone else gear up, we're leaving now "
😂😂😂😂gamer
So this is where Adler and his teammates died
Perseus brought me here.
Ayyy ToH fans
@@febbbm2002 Nice to meet a fellow ToH fan.
@@alvisceratortheultimate1660 they are everywhere
I remember picking transmissions up from this on my radio gear in the early 80's. Very eerie.
Really
Still picking up strange transmission, like the numbers station from over there.
@@newunited7213 Google "Russian Woodpecker"
Please, can you explain what the giant structure was supposed to do? I’ve watched the video multiple times, but I don’t understand.
Jaffa Orange Its over the horizon radar. Basically, it bounces radio waves off the atmosphere and if nuclear missiles are launched by the US it will be able to detect them based on the interference the cause to the waves.
*Soviet Radar*
"Mr Bald has entered the chat."
Exactly of what I was thinking.
Same lol. Hes didnt got here when he went to Chernobyl
Always on the radar, for sovietness
He would have mentioned "soviet" 1m times
Plot twist: He was just studying this, and Kolya is just a cover. He is a MI6 agent afterall. !!!
Let’s be honest, you didn’t searched this, Bell recommended it to you.
Yes
no...CHEEEKI BREEEEKI IV DAMKE
He/She/Bell f***ing lied to us
@@hermanthegerman8587 GET OUT IF HERE STALKER
I searched this but it seems to be full of man childs quoting Call of Duty.
hidden? that thing is bigger than other malls lol
Exactly
But you can’t see it from the roads that pass by, in the middle of a forest miles from the road. I went there a few months ago, amazing place.
Stupid
And it was quite well known to radio amateurs as russian woodpecker.
It is not standing in the centre of city lol
I wish they do not destroy it. These structures will help future generations to understand what a cold war paranoia is
it will collapse in a couple of years due to rust/ lack of maintenance.
The next generations can still see echelon system
Went a few months ago and the tour guide said they won't knock it down due to the amount of radioactive dust still on it that it would release
@@iTweakYourPhone exactly this, i visited it in 2018 and they told us the same. i hope it stays standing for a long time
Joeshar we need that we get paranoia now and just buy all the toilet paper
Imagine being pulled out into the middle of nowhere Russia so Perseus can detonate those nukes.
Typical American Arrogance
@@tifosimasterplan987 On your feet, comrade. Ready for a little retribution?
These damn comments got me weak😂
this is not in the "nowhere", that is far far further north west to find.
watched a vid of black ops cold war...
youtube: “you know this place, now watch it!”
shiey already climbed that thing just for fun. any shiey vibes here?
Ye boiiiii
@@bukanmasmentri Hell yeah!
Facts
I watched that vid instead of sleeping once
Only interested in this vid cause of shiey
RIP Adler, Woods, Mason and Park.
-Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
Adler was going to betray Bell anyway.
@@Sociopastor Bell would have betrayed us at some point. He was a loose end.
Hey. Woods and Mason made it to Soviet-Afghan War and Panama Invasion. They lucky to be alive if Bell didn't use his nuts to slay them.
@@darkagentJAY111 Cold War is non canon
They don’t need to die . Just don’t radio peruses
Regardless of it being a "flop" I always sit in awe looking at, watching and just hearing about Soviet technology and just how ambitious they where. Its an era of engineering marvels "flop" or not, its amazing.
I just bought a Vostok watch because of the sheer grit that the design has and how tech from the 70's is able to hold up to todays standards.
Yes, it worked effectively and a brilliant marvel. This guy may be right that a modern cell phone has more processing power than old analog technology, but I can't detect if any balistic misile is launched on my cell phone
@@valuerc2664 If our cell phones had the correct programming while connected to the proper peripherals, they would be far more capable of tracking ICBM's than 1960's Soviet tech that did not work well to begin with.
This radar was not a "flop." It actually worked OK for that era, but it did use outdated technology, like vacuum tubes. Also, the radar required 10 million Watts to operate, and that is why it was built so close to the Chernobyl power plant.
So this is one of those 5g towers I've been hearing about
Looks like the worlds largest version of “Connect Four”.
It's actually Connect 512
Connect 404 not found
Perseus!
@Brandon Munson shut up kid
Hhahaaha
"It was bell, he lied to us"
@Iosif Stalin "Well I had no other choice than to trust you!"
Why does the thing look like the electric fence from “Divergent”?
Yes, i think divergent get inspiration from that things
Actually yes they us that side as shooting location
Actually, this was where divergent shoot.
Wgwgwgwg yesss
Beciz. Is lIt IS! dih, ugh. They is omnbudmsmen and duh, is radar is fupum. So Didergent, The movie. Is. They is. It is. Fhey went. So sttop it.
Every ham radio op in the northern hemisphere knew about this thing. On the 20 meter band (14 MHz) we called it the russian woodpecker. By 1988 we knew it was an over the horizon radar from the USSR. It was not a secret once they turned it on.
but how did it worked?
@@fly3209 The bigger array sent out pulses. The smaller array received the returned signal. Or vice versa. The OTHR principle is sound and was in use since the early 1940s. Duga was able to push out the wave further due to ground propagation (unlikely?) or ionospheric propagation? And punching out some serious watts when powered up.
It is said that at least one of the reactors at Chernobyl was built to power it. And when it all went wrong in 1986, Duga-2 was impossible and therefore scrapped.
@@fly3209 By beam steering high power shortwave signals and relying on propagation assistance from reflective layers in the Earth's atmosphere to both transmit and detect signals which are at such a distance the signal would not make it over the horizon to the target or back. This is achieved by the propagation property called "skipping" (think a stone skipping across a pond after being thrown).
If you purchase a cheap USB SDR dongle, install a readily free SDR application and tune to certain bands in the HF Radio spectrum, you will see the type of characteristic radio signature these types of antenna arrays emit.
Turned ON 1976 and u talking about 1988....yea right.
@@SoulArtSound Other nations use this same OTHR technique today and is widely available to listen to with a cheap SDR dongle and also freely available SDR software.
Rest in peace
1937-1981:Russell Adler
1952-1981:Helen Park
1933-1981:Alex Mason
1930-1981:Frank Woods
Why did they die?
@@leovikstrom8266 it's a reference to a Call of Duty game
@@leovikstrom8266 well they were killed by soviet army in call of duty game
Rip it had to be done
@@lollardismontop1026 You mean this *Signal Ambush Sorry Adler I got a Job to Do*
So many memories. Back in the early 80's I used to listen to the Shortwave stations from around the world and it was quite common to find the Russian Woodpecker on the bands.
who firstly related this with Military base:Erangel
I think it's probably what the developers got their inspiration from
Erangel based in Ukraine and Russian locations pubg boyss
Sasnovka military base
Duga the Russian woodpecker
this was it .. its based on this perticular story . elements used in pubg has its stories .
says "Soviet Propaganda",
cameraman shows "HBO" written on the wall
Jake Sullivan OR it could be Russian Cyrillic for ”NVO”.
@@TheJonathanNewton what does NVO mean?
Ground-air defence
@@Malikken Наземно-Воздушная Оборона (Ground-air defence)
My theory is that an HBO film crew doing Chernobyl got astray, found these letters at the place and rearranged them.
Igor was my guide to Duga-3, and he is a great guide. BBC get´s it wrong when they mix up the secret city of Chernobyl-2 and Duga-3. Chernobyl-2 was build to service Duga-3, and it is huge.
Goodbye Adler
Lots of mistakes in this report, I have visited the site and it actually operated until 1989. Large amounts of sand where trucked in and dumped around the site as radiation (shielding) so it could continue operating after the disaster.
Bbc propaganda
Who are you again?
where did you obtain that information?
Probably quite believable considering Chernobyl carried on operations at the remaining un-melted reactors until around year 2000 I think it was
They dumped there sand and boron
I remember hearing the "woodpecker" on shortwave radio for many years.
Same here but had no idea until now what I was hearing.
Where could you hear it from? Wouldn’t love to know more about what you were doing ✌🏻
Me too, and I was at that time often dx-en on the short wave band because my parents lives in Australia sinds 1981 and listen often to Radio Australia, and heart many times this woodpecker signal on all bands on shortwave, din't know what it was until now by the video of this cold war radar.
Is it possible that I heard this on AM around 1999? I remember playing around with the frequencies as a kid, and I can still remember that I heard something that sounded like helicopter rotors, which was I thought it was. But it could very well be something like this.
@@jonasgustaf You won't have heard it as recently as 1999, but other countries had similar things, but nothing like as powerful, nor as disruptive to shortwave communications.
I visited Duga 2 in 2019. The enormity of the structure is impressive. I hope they leave it standing for its historical significance.
его переплявяит на металл скоро.
*"On your feet comrade, ready for a little retribution?"*
No one gonna talk about how this is an og map in black ops 1 called Grid.
Hella dope 🔥
I didnt even realize it. 10 years later we have an even better version of the Duga-2 Radar. Nice call back.
It is?
@@NEARReiCtor8799 the Duga radar can be seen during matches in Grid.
@@NEARReiCtor8799 it’s on the russian spawn side you turn around and it’s just this massive towering structure lol
Used to hear it when scanning the HF spectrum back in the early 80s.
what did it sound like on radio
Nosteck Nosteck they played it in this report several times. Like a continuous, fast knocking. Like a woodpecker, hence the name.
Nosteck Nosteck Hard to represent, but it was a clack-clack-clack sound that would work its way across a small frequency band. Sort of like a helicopter sound but not quite.
The sound at 1:08 is fairly accurate. The difference being the type of radio I was using and bandwidth settings.
Everyone is talking about black ops Cold War, but does no one remember this was a multiplayer map in black ops 1? Array was a classic
Think it's Grid
it's grid
Everyone is talking about Cold War, I’m thinking about how huge this was, and the extent the Soviets went to protect themselves from nuclear weapons
I visited the radar tower as part of my Chernobly tour. The tower was probably the best part of the entire tour.
Dear BBC, this is Duga-1, Duga 2 was in Siberia. This "object" is called chernobyl 2 though, that' why the confusion.
@Sgt Soviet I went down the rabbit hole with these and there was i think three of those overall, plus a bunch of smaller ones under a different codename. It's probably all on wikipedia now
I went here when on a tour of Pripyat (one of my biggest interests in history, this end of the century) and didn't know that it was included on the tour (so I was REALLY lucky). Honestly one of the most incredible places I have ever seen
Leave it to Treyarch to show that video games dont always turn people's brains into mush,but that they can be educational as well.
This is where call of duty history was made
Yep, since 2010 with Black Ops multiplayer map Grid, and 2020 with Cold War.
The guide pointed out that this was to defend against the Trident Missiles and that they would be launched from Nevada. The Trident Missile was a submarine launched ballistic missile so if faced towards the Pacific Ocean this would be giving warning of a launch from that ocean.
It said the thing only broadcasts as far as the Pacific Ocean.
Bell: "Sorry Adler I've got a job to do"
(signal ambush)
*"I think you deserve this moment, comrade."*
lol, it's Russian letters "НВО Наземно-Воздушная Оборона" ground-air defence
Meister Floh Incorrect. The Cyrillic alphabet was developed from the Greek alphabet and if memory serves, was first used in Bulgaria. Kyiv, being in the Ukraine, had nothing to do with inventing it. Also, it being the unified alphabet of the Soviet Union, calling them Russian letters isn’t inaccurate.
@@SweetLou0523 Bulgarian guy here you're right, developed from greek philosopher Cyril for Slavic peoples, but adopted first and improved in Bulgaria in late 9th century
@Meister Floh Хуиев, бл..
It's an over-the-horizon radar system, big improvement over their old missile defense tech. It uses a lot of juice, could be used to broadcast any kind of long-range signal they want.
:)
it was not a flop. it worked as intended. the pulses would circulate around the globe, having minute time changes/dispersion if they went through rocket plumes on the other side of the earth (usa).. it was a very early style over the horizon radar basically, and was used to detect early launches of american missiles.
How it can distinguish American missiles from rockets and airplanes would be amazing to know.
@@Pixelsplasher it was intended to detect the flame columns from the missile launches. Hence airplanes wouldn’t trigger it, rockets however might.
that bad ending is actually good, your comrade never betray u
on your feet comrade, ready for a little retribution ?
"Give me a light"
Bell: Shoots him in the head
Soviet Soldier: "I always admired that about you"
Allegiant Preferrence and Cod Cold war Last Mission 😂
Been there in 2019, a part of Chernobyltour. That massive antenna was astonishing.
Teacher: alright class, we will be going to the Duga radar station near Chernobyl.
Girls: ew, Chernobyl. I don’t wanna get radiation!
Boys: READY FOR A LITTLE RETRIBUTION?!
Teacher: We Are Going to Duga-2 Radar Station Near Chernobyl
Girls: Ah!! RADIATION I don't want get radiation!
Boys: CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS COLD WAR
Teacher: "On your feet, comrades"...
Men: 50,000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town
@@betterthanMJF yep
You pollute CZcams with your rubbish
Why did I get This recommendation after I beat the Cold War Cod
“We got nothin, bell fuckin lied to us!”
I went here last January. One of the bumpiest car journeys to get to it.
Seems like the perfect place to plan an ambush at
I visited this place this past summer. It's massive when you're standing on the ground beside it
Always considered this a fascinating element in the Chernobyl story, and yet it’s barely ever mentioned in any documentary or whatever, in spite of it’s purpose being a ominous tally with what the reactor explosion seemed to foreshadow, that being a glimpse of a post nuclear world.
good thing I stopped by Yantar for that psi-helmet first
Adler:That True Bell?, You pulled us out to the middle of nowhere Russia so Perseus can detonate those Nukes?!
One thing that got me on the "Chernobyl Disaster" was the HBO series.
I never knew such thing ever happend,now i have read books watched dokumentaries everything i could find about Nucler Power Plants and Chernobyl.
NOW when i see "CHERNOBYL,NUCLEAR" on the title i have to click on it!!
I remember this place. I killed park, woods, mason, and Adler here in cold war
The static and clicks was just interference as it used a huge amount of power, it was built and used as a missle defence system that covered a very long distance. The interference affected radios all over the world and there is also another one facing the opposite way
There was no arctic air there to clear the head...
3:22 .. HBO logo
Rozhbash, my friend
It could be a Russian letters, which would simply translate to NVO :)
Peshraw Rozh could be acronyms
Like to organize waste.
Coincidentally,there’s a chernobyl series on HBO
"Yo boy's lets drop at Array"
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽
that's only about 5 in-game years before the Chernobyl Disaster
Been there are year ago. Radioactivity last year, Corona this year. Living on the edge.
Amazing documentary 🇲🇨❤️
Funny this was recommended to me just after the COD Warzone update.
So small, so discreet. Must be secret!!!
”Bell, where’s Perseus?”
“He’s in Duga: the radar station”
"Sorry Adler, I got a job to do."
Amazing...I love the story behind it. Do much history!
I remember hearing those knocking noises on devices I had in the 1980s. I never knew what they were.
The huge amount of cement and steel is what it's always left over in every big war stories.
"Over here comrade, your friend came through here. He is not far. Come out and play you are running out of time; and space"
I have visited that place and it feels quite massive when standing right below it.
"Is it true bell? You brought us all the way in the middle of nowhere so Perseus can detonate those nukes?"
"(Silence)"
- "Bell" 1981
4:57 "hey bro, you catching anything here?"
I could hear this on the AM radio late at night waaay down here on south eastern Australia back in the 80s.
Very familiar noise.
Just finished watching the series. And then this video came out. What a coincidence
Not a coincidence... Your phone is tracking your activity, you fool !
Next time think about boobs... And open xvideos on your chrome... Guess what ! U will see them there.
I wish there is a documentary on how and who built this thing!
it was me