Russia will be covered by a large anti-aircraft shield. Air defense systems and combat aircraft in the Western military district will soon be combined under the control of a new unified automated control system (ACS). Integration will allow you to create protection from missiles and fighters in the space from St. Petersburg to Voronezh. Previously, a similar principle was tested in the Crimea. The introduction of modern automation tools is necessary in order to meet the high level of re-equipment of domestic troops, experts explained.
Russia will be covered by a large anti-aircraft shield. Air defense systems and combat aircraft in the Western military district will soon be combined under the control of a new unified automated control system (ACS). Integration will allow you to create protection from missiles and fighters in the space from St. Petersburg to Voronezh. Previously, a similar principle was tested in the Crimea. The introduction of modern automation tools is necessary in order to meet the high level of re-equipment of domestic troops, experts explained.
Western frontier
As sources in the military Department told Izvestia, an integrated automated control system will be formed as part of the 6th army of the air force and air defense of the Western military district next year. It will include several digital subsystems. They will take control of fighters, anti-aircraft systems, as well as radio and radar stations. In turn, the automated control system will bring together data on the air situation and transmit them to the pilots of aircraft and calculations of SAM launchers.
Earlier, the Russian military Department said that the ZVO in the near future, as part of the state defense order, should receive promising automated control systems for anti-aircraft missile and aviation complexes, radio-technical troops and electronic warfare.
For the first time, a single automated control system was created to integrate air defense on the Crimean Peninsula in 2018, Izvestia reported earlier. But in the Western military district, the territory to be closed into a single contour is much larger. From North to South, and from West to East, the length of the control zone of the 6th army of the air force and air defense is about two thousand kilometers. It contains 26 regions of the North-Western and Central Federal districts.
Due to the international situation, it is especially important to develop an air defense system on the Western borders, believes the former commander of the 4th army of the air force and air defense, Lieutenant General Valery Gorbenko.
— The area is interesting for a potential enemy — from there you can move to Moscow and St. Petersburg, — the expert explained. - The Kaliningrad region, which does not share a common border with us, is also located nearby. NATO planes are now constantly conducting reconnaissance flights in those regions — including over neutral waters. From the Western borders not far from Moscow. In addition, the country's significant industrial potential is concentrated in these regions. Therefore, we must be ready to reflect not only today's threats, but also future ones. Now many countries are developing unmanned aircraft, hypersonic missiles and other means of attack.
"Troops of high automation»
Similar tests of the integrated system was carried out in the Crimea. According to the defense Ministry, during the exercises, the Russian armed forces on the Peninsula conditionally repelled a RAID of seventy cruise missiles at once. The prospective unified automated control system continuously received information about air and ground objects from radio stations and radars, drones and aviation. All intelligence was aggregated and processed in real time. The system analyzed the type of targets, their level of danger, speed, altitude, and direction of movement. There was a continuous exchange of information between all its participants, and target designations were issued for air defense and fighter aircraft. A commander of any level could get a complete picture of the enemy's actions and recommendations for its destruction
Earlier, the Ministry of defense reported that for automation in the armies and anti-aircraft missile brigades of the Aerospace forces, the Polyana-D4M1 automated control system is being implemented, which exists in both stationary and mobile versions. Under its control fall the famous S-400, S-300 and "Shells".
To combine army air defense systems at the level of motorized rifle and tank brigades and divisions, the basic Barnaul-T subsystem is being delivered to the troops. It controls "Tori", "Tunguska", "Arrows" and various radars.
Both "Polyana" and "Barnaul-T" are capable of combining air defense forces of both the Ground forces and the VKS under a single command. This helps them to effectively identify and allocate between different objectives — from small UAVs to ballistic missiles.
- Air defense forces are highly automated troops. Starting with the primary link, the radar company, they are connected to various systems and subsystems, - said the former Deputy head of the air force for the CIS joint air defense system, Lieutenant General Aytech Bizhev. — The task of the automated control system of radio engineering troops is to convey information to the higher command post as quickly as possible. ACS of anti-aircraft missile forces must make a competent target distribution of fire capabilities of brigades and regiments. In case of a massive air strike by an enemy, when a person does not have time to do this, target designation is carried out automatically. Previously, on the C-125, the commander himself turned the antenna, and his operators carried out tracking of the target. Now everything depends on the algorithm. You just need to look at the screens and follow the recommendations of the car.
The automated system in the air defense was in Soviet times, but today the troops and the air force are supplied with new aircraft and SAMS with other capabilities, the expert added. And the automated control system must meet them.
- A modern control system should be very flexible, active, resilient, with broad combat capabilities, - added Aytech Bizhev. — If earlier information about changes in the air situation reached the command post in two or three minutes, today the operator brings the marker to the object on the screen,and in a few seconds all the characteristics of the target-speed, altitude, direction-are on the monitors of the superior. The capacity of communication lines is constantly growing. Air defense is a high-tech type of aircraft.
Even anti-aircraft gunners equipped with the latest portable air defense systems "Verba"now have their own automated control system. It transmits information from radars, helping to find an enemy object before it appears in the field of view.
