MINSK, August 23 (AVN) - The Belarussian-Russian unified regional air defence system will be controlled with the help of the Bor-1 automatic system developed by the Belarussian Agat research and production enterprise, a spokesman for the republic's Defence Ministry told the Military News Agency on Thursday.
Currently the Bor-1 system is undergoing tests at the central command post of the Belarussian Armed Forces, the spokesman said. The most up-to-date elements and new technologies were used in its design.
Bor-1 is capable of accomplishing several tasks simultaneously in the automatic mode. Particularly, the system can effect real-time selection and displaying of data on the number of air defence means and forces, level of their combat readiness and capability, as well as their current position. Bor-1 will control, generalise and generate information on the aerial situation at the command post's pannel and displays. The system can also automatically assign aerial target elimination tasks to combat units and formations and indicate the best ways of accomplishing tactical missions to operators.
The Belarussian Defence Ministry leadership is currently putting all its efforts in advancing the professional level of air defence troops personnel. It incteased the number of specialists studying in Russian higher military educational establishments increased. Under the auspices of the agreement on Russia's granting its military testing grounds for combat training of Belarussian air defence combat crews, six battalions from two SAM regiments and brigades armed with S-200V (Vega) SAM systems held live firing at the Telemba proving range in the Chita region in June. Combat crews of S-300PS SAM systems of the Belarussian air defence on-duty forces held live firing at the 117th proving range on Cape Taran on Wednesday. Another live firing featuring the republic's air defence will take place at the Ashuluk testing ground in the Astrakhan region in late August or early September.
The number of air defence officers who experienced live firing will exceed 80 percent by autumn this year, the spokesman added.