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English translation produced from the publicly available Russian-language original Битва в ионосфере by Александр Бабакин. The Russian text is freely available online. This AI-assisted English translation was produced for personal and educational use and is hosted here to support English-language research into Soviet over-the-horizon radar systems.
Table of Contents
- 1 Battle in the Ionosphere
- 2 Translation Notice
- 3 Section 0
- 4 Introduction
- 5 Chapter 1: "The Disgraced Chief Designer"
- 6 Chapter 2: Kuzminsky and Markov—Friends or Enemies?
- 7 Chapter 3 "Secret Letter to General Staff on the Closure of the Over-the-Horizon Radar System"
- 8 Chapter 4: Officers of the Over-the-Horizon Radar Station at Komsomolsk-on-Amur
- 9 Chapter 5: 'The First Commander of Anti-Aircraft and Missile Defense Forces in the USSR'
- 10 Chapter 6 — The General Created Scientific Research Center 'Vympel'
- 11 Chapter 7: The Enigmatic Fourth Main Directorate—Customer of the Over-the-Horizon Radar System
- 12 Chapter 8: Efir Shustov and Valentin Strelkin
- 13 Chapter 9: Publication in the Journal Communist of the Armed Forces
- 14 Chapter 10: The New Year Newspaper 'Attack' on Over-the-Horizon Radar
- 15 Chapter 11: The Pre-New Year Rehabilitation of Kuzminsky
- 16 Chapter 12: "New Materials Unlock New Secrets of the OTH Radar. Publication in Krasnaya Zvezda in 1996"
- 17 Chapter 13: Archive of the Chief Designer
- 18 Chapter 14: "Russia Possesses Combat OTH-R Systems"
- 19 Photographs
- 20 About the Publication
- 21 About the Author