The guy has balls for sure, but why do people have to tilt of the picture to exaggerate? No self-respecting operator would cut a path at that angle. At lease not one that wanted a decent shot at living to do the next job.
Antenna array of some sort. [added] Found it. https://oddviser.com/ukraine/chernobyl/duga-radar-climb
Russian Woodpecker - it would create all sorts of pecking noise on radio stations when it was powered up.