New radar station in Mordovia put into combat regime
MOSCOW. Dec 9 (Interfax) - The new radar station of the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces in Mordovia has been put into a combat regime, the head of the 590th separate radio-technical over-the-horizon monitoring station Col. Andrei Rostovtsev said on Monday.
"The level of the availability of personnel, armaments, material resources, barracks, homes and special-purpose structures at this center of the Aerospace Defense Forces ensures the fulfillment of its combat mission," he said at a meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry's Situational Center.
"The [station's] functioning has been verified; the hardware is in good order and combat-ready. The radar station was put into a combat regime and started to control the airspace in the assigned sector," Rostovtsev stressed.
Speaking of the tasks of trial duty, he said, the radar station's personnel was learning to operate the complex hardware, acquiring combat duty skills and keeping the armaments and hardware ready for their mission.
The resupply of the Container over-the-horizon station is in progress, the officer said.
"We are confirming the designated tactical and technical characteristics and specifying the current combat capacities of the radar station," Rostovtsev said.