Monument (alarm system)
"Monument" ( Russian "МОНУМЕНТ" ) referred to the alarm system of the United Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact . The system, organized centrally by the headquarters of the United Armed Forces in Moscow , was introduced in the mid-1980s.
Main task
The main task of the system is to transfer all armed forces quickly and, if necessary, to a centralized level of readiness for combat by means of coded signals using existing radio and wire connections. In addition, the staff of the United Armed Forces created a special radio reception network with the designation FuN 4351. In the message centers of the general staffs and the main staff of the NVA , special measures were taken to receive the signals and forward them to treffPresseagenturmkp to introduce the system, the urgency levels for the transmission of all types of information were redefined in the United Armed Forces . From then on, the "Monument" urgency level had top priority .
The NVA in the system
The NVA was part of the system. In the main staff of the NVA, the main communications center of the Ministry of National Defense was tasked with creating the conditions for receiving the signals. These included the installation of an additional radio reception workstation in the radio reception center and the use of logical components to record the signals and announce them to the person in charge of the message center (DNZ) and the operational person in charge of the MfNV . The signals in the radio networks were announced with the Morse code four times "x" . It contained a keyword with a country code. The operational duty officer (OpD) in the MfNV had to evaluate the key word of the signal for its significance and, if the occasion arises, to alert the NVA via the “Schnur” alarm system.
Reception, recording and forwarding of signals
Two radio operators permanently monitored the FuN 80, which was always ready for action, and the newly organized radio network 4351. When a signal was announced, the automatic recording was switched on at the touch of a button and the duty officers were put on standby . A signal was announced visually and acoustically . At the same time, a quartz clock was automatically set in motion to record the time of the signal flow to the receiver.
Ongoing activities had to be interrupted. The DNZ had to control the signal reception and the transmission to the OpD. It was given to him by telephone via an intercom , then delivered via the pneumatic tube control center . The signals were received and forwarded in the same way on the telephone and teletype connections, which operated in a covered manner. The OpD had to confirm the receipt of signals "Monument" to the staff of the United Armed Forces.
literature
- Joachim Kampe: Wostok - the news center in the center of the military power of the GDR . ISBN 3-932566-60-2 .