Отечественный опыт разработки и применения первых комплексов тропосферной связи (1959—1986) — Военно-исторический журнал

“Domestic experience in developing and applying the first tropospheric communications complexes of the operational-strategic command level (1959-1986),” Voenno-istoricheskii zhurnal No. 12, 2023. The scholarly Russian account of the military troposcatter line: Kisunko’s waveguide theory as a precondition, the R-121/R-122 experiments, the Baklan programme at NII-129 (later MNIRTI) under V.S. Kulanin, acceptance of the R-408 in 1962 (475-625 MHz), and the Bars network of 1987-89 across six Warsaw Pact countries. English gloss ours; quotations marked “our translation.”