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Friday, June 07, 2013

Two New Russian Radars to Start Work Next Year


Mishelevka Radar Station
Russia’s two new antimissile radars – one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region – will be launched in 2014, the Aerospace Defense Forces head said Thursday.

“Work is proceeding according to schedule; there are no delays or setbacks,” Maj. Gen. Alexander Golovko said following the activation of the latest Voronezh-DM class radar station in Armavir, southern Russia.

The Armavir radar monitors an area from France and Spain in the west, to Algeria in the southwest, Sudan in the south, and Iran, Afghanistan and parts of India and Pakistan in the southeast, according to the Russian military.

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