Moscow. January 2. INTERFAX - The construction of the Voronezh radar station (radar) of the Russian missile attack warning System (SPRN) will be completed in 2022, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
"This year it is planned to complete the construction of the Voronezh radar station in the Komi Republic," the Defense Ministry said.
According to the ministry, work continues on the creation of new radar stations in the Murmansk region.
"Currently, seven new Voronezh radars deployed in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Orenburg regions, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories are on combat duty for radar control of missile-hazardous areas in the established areas of responsibility," the Ministry of Defense noted.
Earlier it was reported that in addition to the seven operating radars, two new stations are being built near Murmansk and Vorkuta. Another station will be built in the Crimea.
On July 3, 2020, the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Sergei Surovikin, announced that the creation of a new radar station near Sevastopol would be completed in 2025. According to the developer, the Voronezh-M station in Crimea will "see" missile launches from the Mediterranean Sea and the central Atlantic Ocean.
In August 2021, Sergey Boev, general designer of the SPRN, CEO of the Vimpel IAC Corporation, informed Interfax about plans to modernize three stations of the missile launch warning system - in the Krasnodar Territory, Leningrad and Irkutsk regions. According to him, the capacity of the Voronezh-DM station in the Krasnodar Territory will also be strengthened.
The Russian missile attack warning system solves the tasks of obtaining and issuing trajectory data for the missile defense system, as well as issuing data on space objects for monitoring outer space in the interests of deterring missile strikes against Russia and increasing the effectiveness of the response of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The Russian SPRN includes command and communication means, ground and space echelons of information means.
The ground segment consists of a network of over-the-horizon radar stations "Voronezh". They operate in different radio wave bands. Radars are capable of detecting space, ballistic objects.