MOSCOW. Feb 16 (Interfax) - Russia will build a missile attack warning radar station in the Far East, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The radar station to be constructed in the Far East has been designed. It will strengthen the national missile attack warning network alongside the radar stations under construction near Vorkuta and Murmansk, Sergei Suchkov, head of the Missile Attack Warning Center of the Russian Aerospace Forces' Space Forces, said.
"The work on building a prefabricated radar station in the vicinity of Vorkuta and a high-potential prefabricated radar station near Murmansk is in progress, and a radar station to be built in the Far East has been designed," Suchkov said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry's Krasnaya Gazeta newspaper on Wednesday.
A number of radar stations of the Russian missile attack warning network will be upgraded before 2030, Suchkov said.
The Russian General Staff said on February 14 that the United States would deploy additional intermediate- and shorter-range missiles in the Asia Pacific region in the coming years.
General Designer of the Russian missile attack warning system, MAK Vympel General Director Sergei Boyev told Interfax in August 2021 that Russia would upgrade three missile attack warning radar stations based in the Krasnodar Territory, the Leningrad region, and the Irkutsk region.
The network consists of command and communication systems and the ground and space information elements.