Russian territory to be fully covered by new Voronezh-DM anti-missile radars by 2020

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Friday, October 10, 2014 12:22 PM
 
Russian territory to be fully covered by new Voronezh-DM anti-missile radars by 2020
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to finish the construction of several new anti-missile radars within five years to cover the entire Russian territory, a senior defense official said Friday, October 10. The Voronezh-DM radar in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region completed state trials on September 30.
     
The Russian Defense Ministry plans to finish the construction of several new anti-missile radars within five years to cover the entire Russian territory, a senior defense official said Friday, October 10. The Voronezh-DM radar in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region completed state trials on September 30.
Russian Voronezh-DM long range anti-missile radar stations are the latest generation of early warning radars which monitor Russian airspace for ballistic missile attacks
     
Within the next five years we plan to produce and put into service similar stations at other designated locations, covering the entire Russian territory with a continuous radar field,” Col. Oleg Stepanov said.

According to previous reports, new radar stations of the Voronezh class will be located in east Siberia's Krasnoyarsk Territory, in south Siberia’s Altai Republic and in the Orenburg region in south Urals.

The Voronezh-DM (77Ya6-DM) works in the decimeter range (UHF) and was designed by NPK NIIDAR. It has a range of 6,000 km and is capable of simultaneously tracking 500 objects.