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Forewarned is forearmed: Russia to set up new radar in Siberia
Published: 08 January, 2012, 22:26
Voronezh DM radar station in Kaliningrad region (RIA Novosti / Sergey Guneev)
TAGS: Arms, Military, NATO, Russia, Politics, Europe, Modernization
The 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. Only the latter two are fully operational, while testing is yet to be completed at the Armavir site.
Zolotukhin said Russia’s radar was very effective, having tracked all 30 launches of Russian and foreign ballistic and space-bound rockets in 2011. He noted that such an impeccable record was largely thanks to the introduction of the new equipment.
The Voronezh radar is more advanced compared to the older, Soviet-era Daryal and Dnepr systems. The Voronezh radar in Pionersky, launched at the end of last year, has a range of 6,000 kilometers and can simultaneously track approximately 500 objects. It is also significantly less expensive and requires less time to install than the older systems.
Last November, President Dmitry Medvedev took part in the unveiling ceremony of the new Pionersky radar, calling it “an adequate answer to the threats posed by the Anti-Ballistic Missile system to our nuclear forces.” He added that the radar could be used as part of a joint ABM system, but said he did not see any signs of willingness to cooperate coming from Russia's “European colleagues."
The United States and NATO plan to set up ABM interceptors in Poland and Romania, a radar in Turkey and Aegis Cruiser ships off Spain. Russia has opposed these plans, as NATO failed to provide a guarantee that the system would not be aimed at its forces. In November, President Medvedev said Russia would equip its strategic ballistic missiles with special systems to avoid detection by the ABM system, and would install weapons systems in the south and west of the country. He also warned that in a negative scenario, Russia could renege on the New START agreement concluded with American President Barack Obama.
The Russian Ministry of Defense plans to replace all Soviet-era radar systems by 2020.
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Russia has never been so cruel as to do what Empire USA has done since 1776, namely give the 51% most wealthy voting majority unregulated freedom to lock in poverty the entire lower half of society. A corruption that has nothing to do with the type of government, as it takes place in the hearts and minds of the majority who control government.
Donald: as anybody else who care about strong and Great Russia, I am convinced the collapse of the CCCP was a tragic not only for Russia but for world peace. However Using people from central Asia- as opposed to Slavs of Europe- to suppress anti-CCCP uprising in Eastern Europe was clear example of the cynical ways in which CCCP used ethnic dynamics to effect divide and rule—the ethnic passport was another cynical aspect of CCCP system of hierarchical citizenship. No wonder the current Communist Party of Russia is in bed with the Nationalists, the Church and wants bring back the old ethnic marking of citizenship. The fact the new Post CCCP Russia rejected ethnic marking of citizenship is in part a recognition of the destructive role CCCP played in fermenting the current ethic tensions in the Russian Federation.
New World Order: You make several good points and I agree with most everything that you say. It was and is a mistake to classify people in any way based upon ethnicity. Perhaps the best way forward for people in the former republics of the USSR that wanted to join, would be to create a new country where the old borders were eliminated altogether, with freedom of movement for all people. I think most of the former republics would eventually voluntarily re-join; some sooner, others later, once they saw the economic benefits. This is what the USSR should have been. However, I think it would be necessary for such a country to have some kind of economic planning; not un-fettered capitalism as exists today, lest the major cities become zones of urban sprawl, squalor, pollution, and poverty. In any case it`s important to recognize that the strategy of global imperialism is to sow discord, strife, animosity, and ultimately violence among the various nationalities that populate the Eurasian landmass, so that they may come in and pick up the pieces. In this sense, the de-establishment of the USSR was seen by them as their great victory, but they also view the job as only partially completed. It is necessary to recognize the nature and motivation of the imperialist-capitalist beast.