Bellifortis
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Thank you EOD. By the way, "Woodpecker" being an english name, is this the alias given by western intelligence or is it a translation of a russian name ?
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Bellifortis
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Hallo,
I just read a Wikipedia article on "Woodpecker", which is there described as a soviet long range, over the horizon, short wave radar system with a range of apparently 15000 km. Different versions, DUGA 1,2 and 3 were made. Are these radar systems fuze and aquisition radar in any way related ?
I just read a Wikipedia article on "Woodpecker", which is there described as a soviet long range, over the horizon, short wave radar system with a range of apparently 15000 km. Different versions, DUGA 1,2 and 3 were made. Are these radar systems fuze and aquisition radar in any way related ?
No, just way different departments using any nickname that came to their mind.
Already rather important things like factory codes were not centrally issued in the USSR (and were double issued) so we can not expect from the Russians that somebody sat in a small smelly office and ran lists and records on nicknames of weapon systems I would say.
Already rather important things like factory codes were not centrally issued in the USSR (and were double issued) so we can not expect from the Russians that somebody sat in a small smelly office and ran lists and records on nicknames of weapon systems I would say.
imaokie2000
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It is a fuze, missing the tip. I think Japanese.
