2015-07-31

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Tom Scott

http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott - Thanks to Ashley Shepherd for the drone footage - see the full video on his channel here: http://youtu.be/nhtL2dBrmlI

This is the Duga-3 array, inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. It's an incredible piece of Soviet engineering, capable of sending radar pulses so powerful they could see over the horizon. Which, when you think about it, is more complicated than it might initially appear...