What's Left of America’s Secret Mega Radar?

[@WaynoGur]

Excellent content but you should absolutely lose the movie music. It makes it hard to hear, understand and process for those of us with a hearing loss.

[@flexinclouds]

Yep, its too loud. It would be fine if it was turned down a bit though imo

[@JuggzL30HC]

Kind of puts you to sleep a lil 😒

[@c128stuff]

I've been in contact with one of the people who designed the computer system managing the phased array radar. Of course there is a lot he can't disclose, but the challenges they had to deal with are interesting, and it is rather amazing they managed at all, seeing how this was still quite challenging 20 years later.

[@Xiph1980]

Hey Ryan, I wouldn't terribly mind the background music to actually be in the background. If I want to be able to hear you, I'd have to turn up the volume so high it hurts.

[@jamescameron6819]

Yeah it's frigging awful

[@RCAvhstape]

I wouldn't mind downloading the music for separate listening.

[@Pr0toPoTaT0]

Hehehe i wouldnt mind if it was in the background not in front of your mouth

[@TheHandThatBites]

I knew someone who worked at Raytheon. He would never say anything other than he works at Raytheon. Just said he was a manager. Never really asked about it out of respect.

[@hubertley939]

9:58 The comparison of power consumption with Alabama’s generating capacity is off by a factor of 1000. GW and MW shouldn’t be confused. It’s still a big chunk of energy, of course.

[@wesleycumbest8975]

Came here to say this. Thanks

[@islandrevenant5746]

Sometimes I slip up in my research adaptations 😂 I really need a proofreader

[@frederikschiler1394]

That or Alabama was incredible power efficient😉

[@islandrevenant5746]

@@frederikschiler1394 I’m an amateur. I need a more dependable proofreader 🤣

[@trevc63]

KZbin needs to implement user controls for background music levels this is intolerable

[@james1787]

Gone before I was born, Nike missile base NY-73 was located just a mile or so from where I live. Very little remains of it, other than some barbed fencing and some concrete pads at the radar site. There is a pretty well preserved Nike site in Sandy Hook, NJ

[@Phylonyous]

Cheers from Las Cruces NM! Not far from WSMR… my dad used to work at HELSTF in WSMR High Energy Lazer System Telemetry Facility in the 80s… aka “Star Wars”.

[@UQRXD]

The music killed it, stopped watching.

[@JamesSavik]

American Radar tech actually got smaller because our computer signal processing tech allowed us to build phased arrays of smaller radar transceivers. The AEGIS system on Navy ships is the best example of a super-powerful Radar in a smaller footprint, but there are many others.

[@tettazwo9865]

The "music" is overbearing.

[@georgegonzalez2476]

The computers for the North Dakota sites were a pair of CDC 7600's, by far the fastest computers of the early 1970's. They had a pair as the computers were not very reliable, they had a mean time between failures of like six hours. Couple that with the failure rate of the radar TWT's and you had an overall system uptime of maybe 50%? Not so good. When the sites were shut down there was a big auction, some grad students at my university drove up there and bought some of the scrapped CDC 713 terminals. 16 lines of 80 characters, luxurious at the time. Not terribly well designed terminals, the monitors did not have DC restoration or high voltage regulation so inverse video was iffy at best.

[@tkskagen]

If you could, a research of hidden and secret Military Bases/Bunkers within Western Washington (near the USN Bremerton Shipyard) would be greatly appreciated. Sadly my state does not release such information to "common citizens", because I have looked...

[@savage.4.24]

They wont if they are still active even for reserves storage ect.

[@hastypete2]

Very interesting topic. Side note: the music mixing was a bit loud mixed with the complex topic made if difficult to follow. See 16:00 for example.

[@DaimlerSleeveValve]

BOISE manor? It was BAWDSEY manor. What horrible intrusive music. Without that it might be watchable, but I quit 7 minutes in.

[@frisk151]

This channel is one of the truly great ones with regard to history, and technology.. thanks!!

[@warrenosborne6044]

Back in the early 60's I was somewhere around 8 years old, I can remember my parents talking about Uncle Ozzy working for Western Electric, and nobody could know what he did. This was it.

[@digitalwoodshop]

As a old Navy Radar and Fire Control Tech 75-95, I learned allot from this video.

[@googleantispy3850]

Great video but please please turn down the music bed and get rid of the fake film grit. Distracting and unnecessary.

[@billpugh58]

I like the music

[@lsucowboy]

Alabama only used 12MW of electricity in 2021? Did you mean 1921?

[@adamfrazer5150]

America is a young nation, and some see it as a country without much history. But for me, equally fascinated by American history as any other, its 'youth' is a massive benefit - all the locations, sites, buildings abandoned or otherwise, to me it's all so close, like it only just happened and anyone interested can put themselves right in the presence of this history and see how it all fits.

[@joebudde3302]

My brother was a radar technician at a Nike base in 63'.

[@nathanarievlis3985]

I wonder if that was the inspiration for the sneaker company.. Must have been a cool experience for your brother though...No matter where those sweat shop purveyors got their inspiration.

[@_Breakdown]

Does anyone know what the etymology of “Nike” means?

[@joshuabidgood2915]

I agree completely.

[@392nightrunner]

My grandfather was one as well in the late 50s then went into the chp

[@Brianrock72]

Are you serious? Its the goddess of victory.

[@joshuabidgood2915]

There is no need for the background music. It is Annoying and does nothing to make the video better. Why do so many channels continue to do this?

[@itstvil]

You’d be surprised how much it enhances the experience. Movies use music throughout entire films without you really noticing but it really enhances your perception of the mood the creator is trying to portray

[@joshuabidgood2915]

@itstvil4339 I bet you are a real peach to be around. Someone says they don't like something and you do your best to try and convince them that they don't know what they are talking about. I don't care what they are trying to convey, I hate it.

[@tetraxis3011]

@@joshuabidgood2915Ok. But your opinion isn’t shared by the mayority. Yea it’s a little loud. But background music does improve the experience.

[@timothystockman7533]

In the movie War Games, the phased array radar COBRA DANE is mentioned a couple times.

[@alanzaleski7160]

where do you get this stuff getting me to look forward to each of your broadcasts thank you very much God bless you

[@vandie9759]

I had the Nike Missile less than 1/8 of a mile away from me as I grew up all my life.,.,.,. 2 miles from Walden Pond .,.,.Ironic

[@williamharris9525]

There are still the remains of a horizontal missile silo at Blue Hills, the radar site is gone.

[@808bigisland]

Nike sites in Marin headlands and Halfmoonbay above Mavericks. Makeout and burns

[@s.porter8646]

The music gives it a TRON layer, awesome

[@PeterPan-hc9lm]

The videos are great. But the background music on some sections is just obnoxiously loud compared to the speech.

[@georgedreisch2662]

The “Over the Horizon Radar System”, of the 1980’s ~ 90’s, might be a topic of interest. Last I knew, (early 2000’s), it was still being used by military and DEA, at least in Bangor, ME..

[@tetraxis3011]

The Russians also had one, it became famous for “mysterious signals”.

[@BobHannent]

The Chain Home system is very interesting

[@jimkline9461]

Lose the background music, very distracting. I had to turn the video off !!

[@buzzlightyear8507]

Very informative video but the background music is too loud, very annoying and distracts from your narrative.

[@Balthorium]

Great video. I did not know this existed but I knew about the Safeguard Complex but not this system. Thanks! I think this must be the place that shoots orange lasers from the Strategic Defense Initiative now. Definitely do a video on that.

[@islandrevenant5746]

While the laser tests themselves probably aren’t on the table yet, I can tell you as a channel researcher that they will be included in another video sooner rather than later

[@BulletDubz]

Hey enjoyed the vid and enjoy listening to the great info but please turn the background music down a little bit more, it’s not that I can’t hear you but it’s that it takes over and I’m losing what you say because I focus on the music, kinda gives a headache trying to block it out when it’s just so there.

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Spy Balloon Defeated Them All... 😂🎉❤🎉😂

[@TechGorilla1987]

@7:02- I am sorry but that background music seems to be swelling in intensity and is quite distracting. Another thing - the word is nu-CLEAR, NOT NUKULER. I refuse to listen to anyone who cannot differentiate.

[@billpugh58]

The music is great

[@robmak]

Very well done however I found the volume of the background music to be distracting.

[@worldtraveler930]

You should check out the PAVE-PAWS bace of El Dorado, Texas!!! 🤠👍

[@allanrichardson1468]

Is the phased array radar at Elgin AFB still online? I toured it in the summer of 1968 as an AFROTC cadet, and I remember that tour to this day!

[@winstonsmith478]

Still looks in good shape using Google Earth (2016 image) and surrounded by a lot of infrastructure. 32°38'2"N 106°19'52"W

[@harryman11]

9:47 that figure is super far off 4mw I think was mistaken for 4gw of power being 1/3rd of Georgia’s peak power consumption

[@shanerorko8076]

No, 915 antenna roughly all using 5000w is 450,000w which would be 450kw which is 4.5mw

[@harryman11]

@@shanerorko8076 450kw is .45mw but my point is the state of Georgia uses way more than 4.5MW, they probably confused it with gw

[@mikepickell8792]

From the time humans have fought, gaining information about your enemy 1st always gives you an advantage.

[@TheTarrMan]

What filter were they using to filter out cosmic rays again?

[@billpugh58]

The Soviet version looks like a chicken coop covered in tar paper😂

[@davidmontierth8258]

Your Alabama power consumption comparison is off by several orders of magnitude. If this facility consumed 4 MWh, that's not 1/3 of Alabama's 2021 power consumption of 11,556,000 MWh.

[@fastbike175]

thanks bro

[@bancroftstimesforreflectio2605]

I love your channel it's like watching the history channel. Very impressive. Thank for All the knowledge you have given to me I love to learn Also was wondering do score your own documentary because the score on the radar platform I love could I get the score to this documentary ? Any info you could give about this score I'd appreciate Thank you looking forward to your future works

[@Thepuffingyank]

growing up i lived very close to beale afb. i remember the sr71 and the u2 and the pavpaw

[@phantom0456]

Weeeee got a thing! And it’s a-called, Radio Detection and Ranging Loooove!!!

[@claudiamann7111]

Thanks for another great in depth video. I always learn so much from your videos.

[@garysnewjob]

The F35 also uses Phased Array Antennas for its radar and secure radio transmissions. We've come a long way.

[@that6.7guy30]

man oh man this who video gave me fallout 4 vibes. maybe it was the music. but i love learning things!

[@Alan_Hans__]

I'd never heard of this. I've never actually seen much on White Sands despite knowing the name.

[@nathanbouton6700]

OMG ( new clee ur) and the plural for apparatus is apparati.

[@muhammaddahlan830]

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[@canusakommando9692]

I haven't watched any of the video. The DEW line, Mid-pine tree , there was one more here in Northern Canada. It was to detect Soviet bombers and ICBM, SLBM etc. The Yanks left a toxic mess.

[@DavidVerch]

The summer electrical capacity of Alabama is 28,911 MW. I think your power consumption comparison is a bit off.

[@ClassicStreetIron]

Thanks for the history lesson on the predecessor of my old duty station: PAVE PAWS West.

[@Banttari]

I’m glad to see hear (see what I did there) that you took everyone’s advice and trimmed back on the music volume on your current videos.

[@donmclean1220]

Beale Air Force base has a giant building that houses a phased array RADAR. It is named PAVEPAWS and the tower controllers caution aircraft transitioning the class D to not get too close to it.

[@willyvonbusche729]

I like your videos, but what's the point of the loud and disturbing music?

[@josephsteffen2378]

Nothing like a klystron...used as a preamp, for the p.a. klystron. Gota think BIG!

[@kevinhamblin951]

Any object moving through the air creates turbulence….that is possible to see ….. but you have to know where to look first 😊

[@mineown1861]

In wwii the crucial piece of radar technology brought to the US from Britain , in a suitcase , was the klystron .

[@brianleeming8895]

Would have been better without the annoyimg 'galloping' background noise.

[@markusgeimer3099]

Sterling Colgate sounds like a new, gimmicky version of toothpaste

[@d.b.6240]

Ive been working on distributed Quantum Radar system at home that makes this look like a childs toy.

[@dr9205]

All glassed!?!? From sand being nuked, not so much with other materials.

[@starbuckavon4030]

Why was it necessary to asshole up the vintage pictures with fake age spots ????""?

[@bimmerfan2126]

and could cook a full size turkey from 5 miles away in 10 minutes

[@writtenplague]

The music was terrible but the movie was good. It should be removed tbh💯

[@MitzvosGolem1]

We had a few Nike Ajax on long island new york with nuke payload it was admitted . Lived next door.

[@KD2HJP]

Hi Ridge! W. Nassau

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@KD2HJP Shoreram Wading River 👋

[@Maldoror200]

💀..@mitzvosgolem2090..isn't that just a little risky..?

[@MitzvosGolem1]

@@Maldoror200 4th July extreme if it went off

[@all4espi]

Not sure why so many complain about the music. I like it.

[@sammygirlie345]

Great video very interesting content need to loose the bombastic music though

[@stephenfurches5091]

Dear God! PLEASE turn off that music!

[@kevinhamblin951]

Abandoned in Puerto Rico too . Must be obsolete technology.

[@toddolson-cn1eb]

Also, dude, New-cue-lar is not the preferred nomenclature. New-klee-R please.

[@Mrgunsngear]

🇺🇸

[@leeatterberry1239]

American Might. I love it 🇺🇲

[@clatonblade2211]

just pumping 5 million watts into the sky, impressive

[@spaceweasel999]

Two words worth a video. Cobra Mist

[@hammyh1165]

We have a nice phased array here in the UK at RAF Fylingdales .

[@nekomakhea9440]

Looks like a deathstar

[@htopherollem649]

people were led to believe they were in imminent danger because when people are afraid they are less likely to ask questions about the money being spent or lengths being gone to in order to "keep them safe "

[@alexmills6190]

Just got to lose the music!

[@roberthill2219]

BLUE ROOFS

[@RobSchofield]

Excellent!

[@ghostwriter2314]

Can you turn the foreground music down please.

[@slyknowledged]

Excellent bg music

[@buxycat]

I quit this three minutes in as I was fed up the background music drowning out the words.

[@nathanarievlis3985]

Come back! Lol. It gets better at 3:45 ish

[@_Breakdown]

You know - - I got that stupid background music in my head - - sounds like something out of The X Files. 🛸👽🖖

[@frederikschiler1394]

Would like to hear more about the Colgate amplifiers.

[@ITSHISTORY]

Noted!

[@thetbird69]

10/10 prefer the professional face came setup

[@rogerpenske2411]

Bird 🦅 poop 💩

[@jamescameron6819]

The intro and bizarre background music really detract from your work.

[@kamareespencer9464]

Every time you say and you're watching its history AlwaysI replace It with and you're watching Disney Channel🤣🤣

[@FRITZI999]

NUKULAR STRIKE ? .... NUK-LE-AR !!!!

[@timewave02012]

805kW * 5 is 4 Megawatts, but the "context" about Alabama in 2021 doesn't make any sense.

[@Duffman-zn7ku]

So that's why the Patriots in Ukraine can only hit the long side of apparment blocks, stop lights, and water surfaces 😂😂😂

[@billpugh58]

Yes that’s right. You are always right. Always, we believe you, no, really we do.

[@jamesleyda365]

Mindsnare........

[@thestrangechannelofjeff7426]

Old world blues

[@NFlight]

New cle er. Not New cue ler...