MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax-AVN) - The radar station located in Crimea will be modernized suing the most modern technologies and will be put into operation, Sergei Boyev, general director of the concern RTI, told Interfax-AVN.
"A decision has been made to modernize and put into operation the radar station located in Sevastopol," Boyev said.
The station will get a new life, he said. "All out developments and the modern technologies we have now tested in the high-readiness stations Voronezh-DM, which have been built or are under construction, will be used in the modernization of this station. I mean the radar stations in Lekhtusi, Armavir, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, and future stations," Boyev said.
Boyev said the Sevastopol radar station will have very serious missions. "the Sevastopol station has a big future in the interests of the missile attack warning system and in the interests of the space control system," he said.
Major-General Anatoly Nestechuk, deputy commander of the Space Defense troops of the Russian Aerospace Defense, earlier said the radar station Dnepr located in Crimea would be modernized by the end of 2015.
The missile attack wan ring radar station Dnepr in Sevastopol was on combat duty in the interests of Russia under the 1997 Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental agreement on missile warning systems along with a similar radar station located in Mukachevo, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, until early 2009. Information from these radar stations, which monitor the space over central and Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, was provided to the central command point of the Missile Warning Systems of the Russian Space Troops. Similar Dnepr stations are now used in Russia, including in Murmansk and Irkutsk.
The station Dnepr in Sevastopol covered the Middle East region and was capable of registering launches of ballistic missiles at a range of 2,500-3,500 km.
In February 2008, Russia, which had completed the state tests of the new Voronezh-DM radar station series in Armavir, unilaterally withdrew from the 1997 Ukrainian-Russian intergovernmental agreement on missile warning systems and refused to use information provided by Ukrainian radar stations.