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Monday, January 09, 2012

Forewarned is forearmed: Russia to set up new radar in Siberia

Voronezh DM radarThe Russian Ministry of Defense says it will set up a new generation of missile-detecting radar near the Siberian city of Irkutsk by the end of 2012, modernizing its missile detection capabilities in a time of worsening relations with NATO.

­The new apparatuses will be one of four Voronezh-type radar systems. Aleksey Zolotukhin, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Troops of the Russian Ministry of Defense, says the new Voronezh radar to be set up near Irkutsk is not complete, but is already being tested.

There are already three Voronezh radars – one in in the city of Armavir in southern Russia, one in the village of Lekhtusi near St. Petersburg and one in city of Pionersky in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia’s Baltic exclave.

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