Russia building massive antenna near Polish border to intercept NATO radio communications — OSINTThe aggressor country russia has begun construction of a new military facility in the Kaliningrad Oblast. Construction work is underway just 25 kilometers from the border of a NATO member country.
The OSINT project Tochnyi reported this on its website.
The construction is underway south of the city of Chernyakhovsk, which is located approximately 25 kilometers from the Polish border.
It first attracted the attention of the OSINT community in 2023. Since then, analysts have studied it, using mainly information from social networks and specialized channels.
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Over two years, the builders have cleared a section of the forest, built a fence, installed a checkpoint, and prepared the sites for the future complex of buildings.
Of particular interest is the circular construction site in the center of the facility.
"The perfect circular symmetry of the facility and the uniform arrangement of potential support locations allow us to conclude that a military facility is being built at this location, namely a circular antenna array (CDAA)," write analysts from the Tochnyi project.
A circular antenna array is a large circular field of vertical monopole antennas arranged in the form of several concentric rings. It is designed to detect and determine the direction of incoming radio frequency signals.
Analysts note that similar systems were actively used during the Cold War for signal direction finding, electronic surveillance and underwater communications.
It is emphasized that the diameter of the facility that the Russians are building in the Kaliningrad Oblast can reach up to 1,600 meters. This is several times larger than the diameter of conventional complexes of this type.
Tochnyi analysts believe that after the construction is completed, the russians will be able to use this antenna array to intercept NATO radio communications in Eastern Europe. In addition, the facility will improve communication with submarines in the Atlantic Ocean.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, researchers from Poland and Germany have identified a source of GPS interference that has been recorded over the Baltic Sea since 2022. It turned out to be military facilities in the Kaliningrad Oblast of the russian federation.
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