Confirmed in May 2019 , information on the beginning of works on the construction of the antenna post «Globus III» radar warning system missile attack and updating the element base of the same radar AN / FPS-129 «Have Stare» ("Globus II») Norwegian fishing village in Vardø was met with justifiable and tough rhetoric in the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Deploying and updating the element base radar family «Have Stare» on the island of Vardo generates a number of the strategic nature of the threats to the Navy and the Russian VKS
23 May 2019 the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, Ulich Norwegian military intelligence in providing fixed by the radar «Globus II» information about the strategic aerospace environment of the arctic region of the US Air Force Command, has announced the implementation of a number of weighty counter-measures in respect of the object, which is one of the key elements of the US missile defense system in the conventional European theater. And there is nothing surprising in such a militant pathos no, it is well known, family that complexes radar AN / FPS-129, though not the best presented in terms of noise immunity parabolic reflector antenna arrays, of peak power 200+ centimeter kW and X-band operation causes finely accurate determination of the effective scattering surface (EPR) most promising means of aerospace attack of the Northern Fleet of Russia and videoconferencing, undergoing field tests in the stratosphere over the Barents and Kara Seas.
We describe the problem in more technically sophisticated plane: «Globus II / III» will be able to easily determine the "radar portraits" (EPR) The following types of test missile and aircraft:
- Advanced anti-aircraft missiles 9M96E2 / DM during fire testing of naval air defense system "Redoubt", placed on the multi-purpose frigates of the 1st rank, etc.. 22350 "Admiral Gorshkov";
- solid-fuel ballistic missile 3M30 "Bulava-30", Ammunition belonging to ballistic missile submarine, etc.. 955 (class "Boreas") and undergoing regular testing of throwing a launch from the Barents Sea and the target lesion Kura test site in Kamchatka;
- supersonic and hypersonic missiles anti 3M55 "Onyx" and 3M22 "Zircon" during fire testing with "mixed" profile flight trajectory, RCC providing access to the height of 8 to 15 km midcourse trajectory (this is the plot falls into a zone elevation survey radar "Globus-2" and "Globe-3");
- various kinds of advanced shock-reconnaissance UAV Air-space forces of Russia, loitering over the Arctic region as part of the outbreak of "Arctic race" between Russia, USA, Denmark, Norway, Canada and the UK.
It is logical to assume, that the definition of "radar pictures» (effective reflecting surface) the above-mentioned types of advanced Russian weapons will allow experts from the Research Laboratory of the US Air Force to create the appropriate number range the ESR product data templates to further facilitate their identification by aircraft AWACS AWACS system, and by airborne radar AN / APG-77/81 fighter F-22A and F-35A and radar United NATO Air Forces fighters. That is, deployed in the vicinity of the Norwegian village of Vardo radar early warning system «Globus II / III» are quite capable to open a number of critical technologies of the domestic missile, passing the test in the airspace of the Arctic region. Not even speaking about, that a radome "Globe-3" may be hiding on the order of more noise immunity AFAR radar early warning GBR-P, capable of selected targets even against opposition from interfering complexes EW "Khibiny". And this is a real threat to the national security of the Russian Federation.
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The answer is not long in coming
The first serious warning Oslo and Washington was made long before the loud statement of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova. We are talking about working out the February conditional anti-radiation hitting the radar «Globus II», Implemented link Sukhoi Su-24M naval aviation of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy. This event is not a little puzzled by senior representatives of the Norwegian military intelligence, including agency director Morten Haga Longde. Nevertheless, the suspension of work on the construction of the radar antenna station «Globus III» in 50 km from the Murmansk region and has not followed.
As a result, the Northern Fleet no choice left, but to go on implementing more meaningful countermeasures, consisting in the relocation of the battery ranged coastal antiship complex 3K60 "Ball" at the Middle Peninsula, located in 60 km from the Norwegian county (province) Finnmark and 65 km from Vardё. From this point on operational and tactical alignment of the Kola Peninsula has undergone several major changes.
Despite the subsonic flight of 850-1020 km / h and an effective surface scattering order 0,1 quarter. m, 3M24U anti-ship missiles (X-35U) They can be equipped with upgraded active-passive radar seeker ARS-35 with further entered detection mode and "capturing" not only surface targets, but also radiocontrast (radioizlucajuщix) stationary onshore facilities (including radar "Globe-2/3").
The use of passive mode ARGS-35 in combination with the radio altimeter and inertial navigation system will enable the Kh-35U "sneak up" to the "Globe" on sverhnizkovysotnym paths (3-7 m above the crest of the wave), not revealing own position means electronic reconnaissance airborne United NATO air (aircrafts RTR RC-135V / W, etc.); in this case, the guidance can be directly on the radar radiation "Globe-2/3". More importantly, flight "Uranus" at very low altitudes will create some difficulties for their interception by a missile complexes «Patriot PAC-3", which can be brought to cover up Vardo Island, it is well known on the AN / MPQ-53/65 "chronic disease" guidance radar, is the inability to "capture" targets at altitudes below 30 m.
certainly, targeting anti-missiles MIM-104F PAC-3MSE of our X-35U "Uranus" may issue aircraft AWACS E-3C «Sentry», using «Link-16" channel, but not everything is clear. At first, To do this, AWACS have come close to the Murmansk region in the distance 250 km (namely at such a distance of "mushroom" radars AN / APY-2 can detect "swarm" anti-ship missiles X-35U). But then, bad luck: such convergence means for the crew-400 E-3B / C entry zone lesions in anti-aircraft missile systems regiments and C-300V4 (250 and 350 km respectively), and MiG-31BM with R-37 rockets hardpoints, cover up the objects of the Northern Fleet. Secondly, Channels network «Link-16" can be suppressed through combined use of complexes of EW "krasukha ew system 4 ', "Resident" and "Diabazol". And what can we say here, when the reflection conditional volley from 32 RCC X-35U, launched from the island of the middleweight division complex "Ball", have deployed on the island of Vardo air defense systems will be all 4 minutes!
Eugene Damantsev
