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Duga - 3

Duga - 3
by Franco Cappellari


The Duga - 3 radar was once one of the most powerful military facilities in the Soviet Union's communist empire. It still stands a towering 150 meters high and stretches almost 700 meters in length. But, left to rot in the radioactive winds of Chernobyl, it's now in a sad state of industrial decay. Photographing the radar with the drone, was a feat, for very high magnetic fields.