1, SA-5 surface-to-air missile?
This is a surface-to-air missile designed and produced by the former Soviet Union in 1950s (see the figure below), which is mainly used for national air defense and strategic air defense. This picture comes from the Red Square military parade. Behind the soldiers is the ugly SA-5 ground-to-air missile crawler transport vehicle-note that this is a huge air defense system. What you see in the picture is only the missile transport vehicle, which cannot be used for launching. Generally speaking, this heavy and terrible missile adopts a unique deployment mode: underground silo, which is generally only used for strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. This is a special case, but only in the later period did some missile positions using ground launchers appear, and most of them were still deployed deep underground. Today, only a few countries such as North Korea and Cuba are still using this antique air defense system, but in those days, it was a terrible weapon-it was specially designed for the strategic bomber group of the US military at that time. The Soviet air defense forces were heavily equipped with SA-5 nuclear warheads, which is another record created by the ugly SA-5, and it also has a terrible range even today: 250 kilometers. Behind all these arrangements, there is only one purpose: to create a nuclear explosion in the center of the strategic bomber group of the US military. Therefore, in the US military's plan at that time, the way to treat SA -5 ground-to-air missile positions was also tit for tat: destroying them with nuclear bombs, which was one of the reasons that forced the former Soviet Union to deploy SA-5 in a solid underground silo. ?
This is the SA-5 launched by the ground transmitter later. Generally, this kind of launching method uses conventional warheads instead of nuclear warheads, probably for fear of being stolen. At that time, NATO gave this terrible weapon an ugly name: salty pig's feet. This kind of weapon is really scary, such as the one below. At first glance, I thought it was a satellite launch:) It didn't have high hit accuracy, because it didn't need accuracy at all-remember that it was not an air defense system at all, but a tactical nuclear weapon that was directly sent to Lima near the US bomber group to detonate.
2. The cockpit of Figure-128 is very wide, but the vision of the members is very poor, especially the radar and weapon operators behind it. The heavy body can't bear the high overload required by air combat, so the Soviet land air defense forces only gave it a tactic: find the B-52, then volley all four AA-4 missiles 50 kilometers away, and then run away immediately, never fighting. It is not so much an interceptor as an aerial missile launcher, and the Soviet Air Force also plans to equip it with nuclear warheads:) This interceptor was relatively confidential at that time and never exported, so even today, many people don't know about it, and it is easy to regard it as another ugly masterpiece-Jacques -28 interceptor. NATO gave Tu-128 an elegant name: Fiddler.
3. Long-range early warning radar
The core positions of the "Steel Cemetery" base are the transmitting antenna position (relatively small) and the receiving antenna position (relatively large). Please compare the windows of the base building in the photo and judge that these buildings are at least 6 stories high, but they look so short in front of this electrified steel scaffold.
4. The "top" position in the "chicken coop" base?
The following is the location of the transmitting antenna at this level. Please estimate the large area of the nearby base building.