Re:UVB-76
by droidist2 on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:41AM
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Would that mean that if the buzzing stops for an extended period, Dead Hand assumes World War 3 is underway and launches the missiles?
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According to available information (and speculation), perimeter listens to various inputs (which is a good thing).
It's said that it has connections to seismic and pressure sensors and can check whether communication to critical infrastructure is intact. So it keeps tabs on many heart-beat signals it seems. UVB-76 might be one of them.
Moving a low traffic radio station with an interesting sound just because a bunch of HAM radio guys doesn't make sense. It has to have some higher function to warrant the move.
With the new over the horizon radar systems Russia is deploying, I guess that signals from these would be evaluated too.
Going in to wild speculation territory, Russia's in-house CPUs would fit the bill for these kind of systems nicely.