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21:38 19/06/2012 | ARMAVIR, June 19 (RIA Novosti)

A new-generation Voronezh-DM class anti-missile radar will enter combat duty near the town
of Armavir in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region around the end of the year, the Russian Aerospace
Defense Forces commander, Oleg Ostapenko, said on Tuesday.



The anti-missile radar near Armavir is one of the four new-generation Voronezh-class radars that
have been put into operation in Russia in recent years.

Two Voronezh-M radars have been deployed in Lekhtusi near St. Petersburg and near the town of
Usolye-Sibirskoe in Siberia’s Irkutsk Region.

Another Voronezh-DM class radar stationed in the westernmost exclave of Kaliningrad was put on
combat duty in November last year in what then-President Dmitry Medvedev said was part of Russia’s
response to U.S. and NATO European missile defense shield plans.

Voronezh-DM class radars have a range of 6,000 kilometers. They can be more quickly deployed to a
new site and require a smaller crew to operate it compared to previous generation stations.

Two sections of the Armavir radar that have been put into operation have allowed monitoring the
area from France and Spain in the west, to Algeria in the southwest, Sudan in the south, and Iran,
Afghanistan and parts of India and Pakistan in the southeast, its crew said.

Ostapenko also said on Tuesday the Aerospace Defense Forces plan to complete the entire Voronezh
radar deployment program before the 2020 deadline.