MOSCOW. Dec 18 (Interfax-AVN) - Three brand new radar stations will be deployed in Russia over the next few years, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a brochure, entitled "The Russian army in comparison," released ahead a meeting of senior defense officials in Moscow on Tuesday.
The outer space monitoring system Poznaniye is due to be deployed from 2020, the ballistic missile early warning system (BMEWS) Voronezh-SM from 2021, and the Volga-T combat radar (of the class of ground-based air defense radars) from 2020.
All three have superior combat characteristics to their counterparts in the United States, China and France.
The Russian BMEWS provides continuous coverage over Russian territory in two wavebands, meter and decimeter, to reduce the likelihood of error, whereas "the U.S. BMEWS' radar field has a gap and works only in one wavelength band (meter)," the brochure says.