Radar is unique in the world of Russia

Despite financial difficulties, the Russian defense industry has achieved many new achievements in various fields, especially the rapid and powerful development of Russian radar systems. Success in creating "Voronezh" long-range radar systems was beyond their expectations.

In 2013, many believed that seven of the nine radar stations would not be ready to fight in 2018, but by the end of 2017, Russia had officially declared a "Voronezh-M" radar station and two stations "Voronezh -DM ". These three new Russian radar systems allow Russia to monitor the situation in both China and the Middle East.

In addition, two more radar stations are in the process of being installed in southern Russia and they are responsible for monitoring the situation in North America. Russia's 10th radar station will be deployed in Crimea. The reason Russia accelerated the progress of equipping new generation radar stations to detect and counter US and Western attacks.

In addition, the cost for maintenance, maintenance and operation of these new stations is lower than that of old equipment, thanks to new technology, they are more reliable, better fighting ability. Therefore, Russia will continue to replace their old generation radar stations.

Russia has regained its ability to detect missiles thousands of kilometers away.

Under the new system plan "Voronezh" will replace the "Daryal" system (used to detect ballistic missiles) and will eventually replace the old Soviet-era systems.

Earlier, in 2013, Russia officially stopped using the "Daryal" system in Azerbaijan, because the Azerbaijan side raised the cost of rent from $ 7 million per year to $ 300 million. Russia rejected this request and demolished this radar station in Azerbaijan, ending a 10-year lease on December 24, 2012.

This radar station started in 1983 and is scheduled to become one of Russia's strategic radar systems. However, after the end of the Cold War this project stopped and Russia only created an additional "Daryal" system in the north of Russia.

This "Daryal" system is responsible for detecting missile launches in North America in the Arctic direction. Meanwhile radar stations in Azerbaijan cover the entire Middle East and India. However, this task will now be handed over to the new Voronezh system and they will be deployed on the Black Sea coast.

In fact, after the end of the Russian contract, it proposed to continue deploying the Russian radar station in Azerbaijan and was willing to pay a larger fee, but of course not to add $ 293 million. Even Russia is willing to pay more for Azerbaijan electricity about 5 million USD and about 10 million USD for other services each year. Remember that this radar station will create jobs for about 500 Azerbaijanis and 1100 Russians. However, Azerbaijan seems to want to prove they do not want to depend on Russia and decide not to agree.

In 2012 the fourth radar station of the 'Voronezh' line was deployed near Irkutsk. This is the first radar station among 3 stations to be deployed in eastern Russia. The next two radar stations were deployed in 2017. The stations deployed in the west of the country cost only $ 50-70 million per year, while the east station is higher with $ 100 million.

The Voronezh (as well as Daryal) system is capable of detecting missiles at a distance of 6,000km. From 2005 to 2011, three stations Voronezh-M and Voronezh-DM were deployed in the western part of Russia. The first radar station was deployed near Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, the second was near the east coast of the Black Sea (Armavir) and the third - east of the Baltic Sea near St. Petersburg.

Russia has been actively developing radar systems since the fall of the Soviet Union and they no longer have the ability to detect ballistic missiles. In fact, the Soviet Union had many of these systems, but after disintegrating in turn, the countries in the 14 republics split and then these systems belonged to them. However, disputes as well as the ability of some republics or civil war have made these systems obsolete or 'retired' . Two of these Ukraine stations were officially shut down in 2010.

The rise in oil prices during the 1990-2013 period allowed Russia to actively invest in restoring ballistic missile detection systems. The first radar station (located near St Petersburg) was created after only a year and a half. It replaced an old station, this station was built in 10 years. Thanks to the new design, advanced technology for high automation, this system consumes less electricity, requires fewer people to serve, and installs easily and quickly thanks to the modular design.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has applied many Western technologies in combination with their studies to create new generation stations. The radar station was deployed near St Petersburg to replace the station in Latvia that had been deactivated in 1998 and scrapped in 2003. The new radar station in Armavir performed the same tasks as the stations in Azerbaijan and Ukraine earlier. .

With this new deployment all missile attacks are detected by Russia from whatever direction it appears. This system also allows Russia to collect a lot of different data, and this allows them to assess in detail the progress of other countries in the development of ballistic missiles. Russia's Defense Ministry said in 2017, radar stations recorded 50 ballistic missile launches.