The Russian Ministry of Defense is considering the issue of covering the Northern Sea Route with new radar stations in order to control airspace throughout the NSR. Recently, a significant increase in US and NATO aviation flights in the Arctic region has been recorded..
Currently, several separate radio engineering companies are deployed along the Northern Sea Route, equipped with radar. The plans of the military department to transform them into battalions with the prospect of deploying separate regiments. These units and units will be included in the 1st and 3rd air defense divisions of the 45th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Northern Fleet.
At the same time, these units will be saturated with new radars “Resonance-H”, “Sky-M”, “ruin”, as well as advanced radars, capable of detecting all air targets, ranging from missiles and aircraft to hypersonic weapons and drones. Details of the planned transformations are not disclosed..
As reported “Notifications” citing military sources, currently, radar posts are deployed in the archipelagos of Franz Josef Land, new Earth, Severnaya Zemlya, New Siberian Islands, in the Tiksi area, on Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt. For complete control of the sky over the Arctic, several more radar stations will be deployed along the Northern Sea Route.
celebrated, that the United States is very much interested in the Northern Sea Route, native to Russia. What does interest in him come from both a military point of view, as well as with economic. Although Washington does not officially dispute the ownership of the NSR by Russia, but attempts to take possession of it are already beginning. Just a couple of years ago, articles appeared in the Western media, calling to transfer the Northern Sea Route under control “world society”.
