an adjoining YouTube video said that the Woodpecker installation consumed about
one third of the Chernobyl power station's output.
It is a pity that the Woodpecker did not have a more harmonious sound output :-)
jh
On 11/16/18 02:10 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That’s very interesting, Piers. I had always wondered what the stuttering
> noise was and apparently it was Woodpecker.
>
> I can’t think how much radiation the contraptions pushed out while in use.
>
> Chris
>
> > On 16 Nov 18, at 13:33, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Never seen suchlike under construction, John.
> >
> > But if you had asked about a similar completed structure, I would have said
> > yes, it looks just like the Duga-3 over-the-horizon radar array erected just
> > south of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, nicknamed Woodpecker by NATO,
> > as evidenced in this Youtube clip:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMVdOc9UbE
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOMVdOc9UbE>
> >
> > I didn't take my own photos when I passed by, not wanting to tempt
> > providence, and I was concentrating anyway on the power station. But I can
> > tell you that Soviet maps marked the site of the radar as a Boy Scout camp!
>
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