More modern radar station may be deployed in Crimea instead of Dnepr - source
MOSCOW. July 18 (Interfax-AVN) - The military currently do not plan to rebuild the radar station of the missile attack warning system Dnepr near Sevastopol, a source with knowledge on the matter told Interfax on Monday.
"There is no decision to rebuild the station. There are plans to deploy a more modern station, a Voronezh-type station, in a different place in Crimea," the source said.
The radar station Voronezh is a Russian Daryal-type radar station. The radar station is capable of locating space and aerodynamic objects, including ballistic and cruise missiles.
According to media reports, the station Dnepr in Sevastopol went to Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. It was leased by Russia for some time, but the contract was severed due to Kyiv's position. The Dnepr was then unused for over ten years and became unusable.
In early July, a source with knowledge on the matter told Interfax that Russia, compensating for the increase of the NATO military activity, plans to deploy in 2017 a super-new radar station Podsolnukh in the Black Sea, which is capable of controlling a 200-mile coastal zone. The source said the Daryal-type modified radar station will see any military vessel passing through the Bosphorus.
Another Podsolnukh radar station will be put on combat duty in the Baltic Sea in 2017.
The Podsolnukh radar station makes it possible to automatically locate, track and classify up to 300 sea and 100 air objects, determine their coordinates beyond the radar horizon and provide target indication to ships systems and weapons systems and air defense systems.
