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    Voronezh-type radar site put on combat duty in southern Russia

    20:29 | 26/ 02/ 2009


    MOSCOW, February 26 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's new Voronezh-type radar
    site in the southern town of Armavir was put on combat duty on
    Thursday, the head of the Moscow-based Military Forecast Center said.

    "I confirm that a new and more powerful Voronezh-DM radar in Armavir
    has been put on combat duty tracking missile routes in the south and
    southeast [of Russia] in place of warning sites in Mukachevo [western
    Ukraine] and Sevastopol [the Crimea]," Anatoly Tsyganok said.

    Russia terminated a 1997 agreement with Ukraine on the use of both
    radars in Sevastopol and Mukachevo in February 2008 on the grounds that
    they had become operationally obsolete.

    With an effective range of 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) the
    Voronezh-type radar has capabilities similar to its predecessors, the
    Dnepr and Daryal, which are currently deployed outside Russia, but uses
    less energy and is more environmentally friendly.

    Washington wants to place 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar
    station in the neighboring Czech Republic, purportedly to counter a
    missile threat from Iran and other "rogue" states. Russia has fiercely
    opposed the plans, saying the European shield would destroy the
    strategic balance of forces and threaten Russia's national interests.
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