MOSCOW. May 20 (Interfax) - A new-generation radar station built near Armavir will be added to the Russian ballistic missile early warning system in 2012, Col. Igor Morozov, head of the Space Troops Operational Command headquarters, said on Friday.
"After its completion and test run in 2012, the two-segment radar station in Armavir will be able to detect ballistic targets in a sector with the width of 240 degrees azimuth and 70 degrees in elevation," Morozov told a missile defense conference at the Military Academy of the Russian General Staff on Friday.
"This station is a new generation of information systems for missile attack warning and missile defense, which are capable of providing information about ballistic missiles within a range of up to 6,000 kilometers," he said.
The radar is created around a modern element base and ensures the required level of radar target discrimination at a low cost of deployment and routine upkeep, Morozov said.
"The first specimen of this type of radar stations has already been successfully deployed in the village of Lekhtusi in the Leningrad region and provides warning information for the designated sector," he said.