Duga-1 and Duga-2

Coordinates: 47°04′30″N 31°39′00″E / 47.075000°N 31.650000°E / 47.075000; 31.650000

Duga (Russian: Дуга - "duga" means "arc") was Soviet over-the-horizon radar (OTH) systems It was developed for the Soviet ABM early-warning network. This radar system was aimed east and was fairly high power. It was predecessors of the Duga-1 or "Steel Yard" OTH system, which operated from 1976 to 1989.

Duga was the first experimental system.^[1]^[2] It was built outside Mykolaiv in the Ukraine, and successfully detected rocket launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, about 2,500 kilometers away. Duga is able to track launches from the Far East, and from submarines in the Pacific Ocean, as the missiles flies towards Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic Ocean. This huge radar complex was restored recently (2002) after a fire which seriously damaged it.

References

↑ John Pike. "Steel Yard OTH". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 2010-04-08.
↑ A. Karpenko Nevsky Bastion (1999). "ABM AND SPACE DEFENSE". No. 4: 2–47.

Soviet over-the-horizon radar stations

Duga

Mykolaiv, Ukraine	transmitter at 46°48′26″N 32°13′12″E / 46.80722°N 32.22000°E / 46.80722; 32.22000 receiver at 47°02′28.33″N 32°11′57.29″E / 47.0412028°N 32.1992472°E / 47.0412028; 32.1992472

Duga-1

Liubech and Chernobyl-2, Ukraine	transmitter at 51°18′19.06″N 30°03′57.35″E / 51.3052944°N 30.0659306°E / 51.3052944; 30.0659306 receiver at 51°38′15.98″N 30°42′10.41″E / 51.6377722°N 30.7028917°E / 51.6377722; 30.7028917

Duga-2

Komsomolsk-na-Amure, Russia	transmitter at 50°23′07.98″N 137°19′41.87″E / 50.3855500°N 137.3282972°E / 50.3855500; 137.3282972 receiver at 50°53′34.66″N 136°50′12.38″E / 50.8929611°N 136.8367722°E / 50.8929611; 136.8367722

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