"For the first time in the history of the Russian military, three modern Voronezh early-warning radar systems were put into service at the same time, in the corresponding areas," Tass today led General Alexander Golovko's statement, commander of the Russian Space Forces.
Three new radar combinations have been deployed in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai regions of Siberia and the Orenburg region south of the Ural Mountains, bringing the total number of Voronezh radars in service to 7.
Earlier, four Voronezh radar systems were operational near St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg, the Kaliningrad region of the Baltic, the Irkutsk region in eastern Siberia and the Krasnodar region in the south.
Russia lost its integrated early warning system after the Soviet Union disintegrated in 1991. Radar complexes located in independent republics were completely eliminated or destroyed. Staffing of Voronezh stations will fill the radar gap in northwestern, south-west and south-eastern Russia, which even the former Soviet Union did not.
Each new Veronezh station can simultaneously detect 500 targets from 6,000 to 10,000 km at an altitude of 8,000 km. At a distance of 8,000 km, it is possible to determine the target radar reflectance area with a soccer ball.
Nguyen Hoang
