New radar "Voronezh" of the early warning system (SPRN) It will be built in the Crimea near Sevastopol, Interfax-AVN with reference to the source.
According to the source, the new station will replace the unusable "Dnepr" radar. Start of construction is expected in 2019-2020 year.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union station "Dnepr" in Sevastopol, Ukraine moved. For a while it rented the Russian military, however, due to the position of Kiev contract was canceled. After that, the radar stood idle for more than ten years, and now is not suitable for use.
"Voronezh" - the Russian-horizon radar, ground-based echelon EWS. The station is able to detect objects and wind cosmic, including, ballistic and cruise missiles.
Recall, at 2017 year on combat duty atonement three new stations, built in the Altai and Krasnoyarsk Territories, as well as in the Orenburg region.
In December last year, the commander of the Space Forces, Alexander Golovko said, that the continuous control of all missile-dangerous directions are now by a network of seven new-generation radar.
It was also reported on the construction of a new radar station "Voronezh-DM" near Murmansk. ÎÍÀ obespechyt control air-kosmycheskoho prostranstva over the expanse of the Arctic.
The family consists of a new radar stations meter ("Voronezh-M"), decimeter ("Voronezh-DM") and centimeter ("Voronezh-SM") waveband. Long-wave radar provides long range target detection, shortwave more precisely define the parameters of objects.
