Two new radar stations to be placed into service in Russia in 2014

Two new radar stations of the missile warning system will be placed into service in Russia's Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions this year, the Defence Ministry's press service and information department said.

Work to set up radar stations will also continue in the Krasnoyarsk, Altai, Orenburg and Arctic regions, the ministry said.

The main centre of missile attack warning has four new-generation radar stations at present - a Voronezh-M station on duty in the Leningrad Region and a Voronezh-DM in the Krasnodar Territory, and the other two - the Voronezh-DM in the Kaliningrad Region and the Voronezh-M in the Irkutsk Region - are on test duty.

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