Voronezh EW radar: News

The construction of the early-warning radar in Vorkuta that began in September 2015 has made enough progress to be visible from space.



http://russianforces.org/blog/2016/08/the_radar_in_vorkuta_geolocate.shtml

I thought that the construction started long time ago...

Last week, Russian media reported that a newly built Voronezh-DM early warning radar system in Siberia successfully detected its first missile launch from the United States. Commenting on the news, military journalist Vladimir Tuchkov remarked that the detection was proof that the new EWS network is already paying off, even before being completed.

Read more: https://sputniknews.com/military/20161008/1046140686/new-russian-radar-worth-the-price.html

Construction of "Voronezh-DM" radar in the Murmansk region



http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2253158.html

Russian defense enterprises are to build a heavy-duty radar station to warn of potential missile strikes on Russia, according to Sergei Boyev, chief executive of the holding company that will construct the missile attack warning system.

The Voronezh-DM type radar station will be deployed in Russia's northwest near the city of Murmansk (1,160 miles north of Moscow), where Boyev says it "will cover the main missile-threat direction" in the western area.

The new station will be able to detect ballistic, space and aerodynamic objects, including cruise missiles.

https://rbth.com/defence/2016/11/18/moscow-to-create-heavy-duty-radar-station-in-northwest-russia_648859
http://alert5.com/2016/11/21/russia-to-construct-voronezh-dm-radar-near-murmansk/

A continuous radar coverage along the perimeter of Russia is now in place, with 7 stations. https://regnum.ru/news/polit/2220812.html?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=lentainform&utm_campaign=regnum.ru&utm_term=1245878s10306&utm_content=4961283
Voronezh-DM" in the district of Yeniseisk Krasnoyarsk Territory for the 1st time detected a missile launch from the United States. https://sputniknews.com/military/201610081046140686-new-russian-radar-worth-the-price/
The article says 10 stations r planned-so, r the 7 already built enough or not? I guess now they don't have to use their AWACS & MiG-31 planes as much for routine/extra AD patrolling along their borders!

Tsavo Lion wrote:The article says 10 stations r planned-so, is the 7 already built enough or not?

Well, not really. The smallest blind spot on Russia's missile detection shield could be easily exploited by a potential enemy.

This is the map of the currently working/under construction/proposed "Voronezh"radars.


From here: http://www.milkavkaz.net/2016/08/kakovo-sostoyanie-protivoraketnoj-oborony-vks-rf.html

I listed them for you: (Operational, under construction, proposed)

(from West to East)

- Pionerskiy (Voronezh-DM) (Kaliningrad)
- Lekhtusi (Voronezh-M) (Leningrad region)
- Olenegorsk (Voronezh-VP) (Murmansk region)
- Armavir (Voronezh-DM) (Krasnodar region)
- Orsk (Voronezh-M) (Orenburg region)
- Vorgashor (Voronezh-M) (Komi Republic)
- Barnaul (Voronezh-DM) (Altay region)
- Yeniseisk (Voronezh-DM) (Krasnoyarsk region)
- Mishelevka (Voronezh-DM) (Irkutsk region)
- Zeya (Voronezh-DM) (Amur region)

In the list, I counted 6 in operational red, not 7. Agreed, it makes sense to have  more than absolute minimum to ensure & constant coverage + allow for maintenance, attrition/hostile action, natural disasters, etc. I can't access the map u posted.

Barnaul, Yeniseisk, Orsk are not operational yet.
In Armavir there are 2 radars

It's clear to me that the radars in Barnaul & Vorgashor will cover the gap in W.Siberia, N.Russia, Barents & Kara Seas & up to the N.Pole, Ukraine, Belarus, E.Poland & the Baltics. Pretty good way to monitor air & naval activity around the perimeter of Eurasia! They could also share intel. with China, N.Korea & Iran, if need be! But, can these radars detect low flying UAVs & cruise missiles?

Interesting article

As Russian "discreetly" deployed missile defense

http://politrussia.com/vooruzhennye-sily/kak-rossiya-laquo-nezametno-raquo-426/

It may look Russian missile defense

http://politrussia.com/vooruzhennye-sily/kak-mozhet-vyglyadet-228/

Russian radars able to track asteroids

https://www.gazeta.ru/army/2017/05/23/10687841.shtml

Plugging the Air Defense 'Gorbachev Gap': Russia's Voronezh Radar in Action

A new Voronezh-DM radar station, part of Russia's early warning system, will enter combat duty in Krasnoyarsk region outside Yeniseysk by late 2017, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. RIA Novosti defense contributor Andrei Kotz explains how the system will plug the air defense gap left by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

At the moment, the Krasnoyarsk Voronezh-DM complex is already operating in test mode. However, observers say its future potential is even more significant.

Reporting to the defense minister during Shoigu's visit to the region on Tuesday, Aerospace Defense Forces Commander Lt.-Gen. Alexander Golovko said that "as part of combat alert duty in 2016, [Russia's] missile warning system, specialized means of space control and anti-missile defense detected over 40 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space rockets."

The Voronezh program is Russia's latest-generation of ground-based early warning systems. At the moment, ten Voronezh-DM (UHF) radar and Voronezh-M/-VP (VHF) radar sites are deployed, planned, or under construction, including the Yeniseysk complex.

Commenting on the special importance of the Yeniseysk system in an article for RIA Novosti, military analyst Andrei Kotz wrote that at the moment, Russia is rushing to restore and surpass its Soviet-era missile early warning capabilities.

The Yeniseysk complex is a Voronezh-DM system, works in the decimeter range, and can simultaneously track up to 500 objects at a range of up to 10,000 km. It can detect all ballistic, space-based and air-based objects up to 6,000 km over the horizon, or 8,000 km vertically, thereby covering near space. The first station of this modular radar type was introduced in 2006.

Speaking to RIA Novosti, retired air defense officer Mikhail Khodarenok explained that the Voronezh radar system is "designed to detect ballistic missiles and their warheads over the radar horizon."

"They work in automatic mode, operating according to a special program for the observation of space, and have a very high probability of detecting targets soon after launch. The information from the systems is immediately transferred to a command post near Solnechnogorsk [a town in the Moscow region]. There, the data is processed and analyzed, after which it is sent to General Headquarters, which decides what to do next. If a mass launch is discovered, the most likely decision is to launch a counter-missile or missile counterattack. The entire process takes only a matter of minutes."

Khodarenok explained that Voronezh radars are able to not only pinpoint a ballistic missile target, but also instantly calculate its flight trajectory, and the time and location where its warhead(s) will fall. In addition, the radar systems serve the valuable peacetime role of monitoring and identification of space junk, including hundreds of possibly dangerous objects, from dead satellites, to rocket boosters, and other trash.

The retired officer noted that the Russian radar operators carefully document this space junk, and add it to special catalogues to distinguish it from ICBMs entering the atmosphere. To date, only Russia and the United States have this capability.

There is also another very important point worth mentioning, Khodarenok said. "Russia has managed to do what the USSR couldn't in its own time: to create an all-aspect missile attack warning system. In the Soviet Union, up to its collapse, there was a serious gap in the northeasterly direction, which was not covered by early missile warning systems," the expert explained.

"I am referring about the northern part of the Pacific Ocean and part of Alaska. In the event of full-scale nuclear war, the missile submarines of the likely enemy would have the opportunity to stage attacks on our cities and military targets from these areas, with our systems detecting these launches too late," he added.

"This direction was supposed to be covered by a Daryal-U type radar, which was being built outside Yeniseysk. However, in 1987, Mikhail Gorbachev, succumbing to pressure from the US, suspended the project. In 1989, the project was dismantled, at 90% completion. The 'Gorbachev gap' remained open for 28 years."

Later this year, thanks to the Voronezh radar system, the gap will finally be closed for good.

https://sputniknews.com/military/201706071054416083-voronezh-fills-Gorbachev-air-defense-gap/

Rogozin: Russia will be completely closed by anti-missile dome
https://news.rambler.ru/video/37085054-rogozin-rasskazal-o-kupole-kotorym-zakroyut-rossiyu/?smi2=1&updated=news

This is more than USA has, as its land based BMD doesn't cover SW/S/SE vectors. Not sure if the system in Europe is fully operational to cover the NE vector. But we have ship based BMD.

New-generation Voronezh-DM radar set up near Yeniseysk in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in East Siberia will be put into operation before the yearend,

https://www.armyrecognition.com/june_2017_global_defense_security_news_industry/russian_radar_voronezh-dm_in_service_end_of_2017_80706173.html

Russia considers building a new early-warning radar in Crimea

Russian press quotes Sergey Boyev, the chief designer of the early-warning system, as saying that Russia may consider building a new early-warning radar in Crimea, most likely at the site where the Soviet Union deployed a Dnepr radar. The new radar was referred to as Voronezh-SM, where SM stands for "centimeter-range." A shorter-wavelength radar can provide a better tracking accuracy, albeit at shorter ranges.

According to Boyev, the radar that is being built in Vorkuta is also a centimeter-range Voronezh-SM. (This confirms the earlier find, which suggests that there are two radars under construction there.)

http://russianforces.org/blog/2017/08/russia_considers_building_a_ne.shtml

George1 wrote:

Russia considers building a new early-warning radar in Crimea

Russian press quotes Sergey Boyev, the chief designer of the early-warning system, as saying that Russia may consider building a new early-warning radar in Crimea, most likely at the site where the Soviet Union deployed a Dnepr radar. The new radar was referred to as Voronezh-SM, where SM stands for "centimeter-range." A shorter-wavelength radar can provide a better tracking accuracy, albeit at shorter ranges.

According to Boyev, the radar that is being built in Vorkuta is also a centimeter-range Voronezh-SM. (This confirms the earlier find, which suggests that there are two radars under construction there.)

http://russianforces.org/blog/2017/08/russia_considers_building_a_ne.shtml

Why only consider? Just do it. That is the value of having Crimea, it enables an important EW gap to be filled.

Creation of a network of ground-based radars

Alexander Golovko also said that the creation of a network of ground-based radar stations ("Voronezh" radar) of the Russian missile attack warning system (RWS) will be completed by 2019.
"Work continues on the creation of new radar stations for the missile attack warning system in the Komi Republic and the Murmansk region, and it is planned to complete the creation of a network of new high-availability Voronezh radars in the Russian Federation in 2019," the general said.
He noted that the development of the ground-based EWSF is one of the most important priorities for the construction of the Space Forces. Now, Golovko said, the radar of the new generation Voronezh in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk regions and the Krasnodar Territory is already on alert.
"The state tests of the new Voronezh radars, which are carrying out pilot-combat duty in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Altai Territory and the Orenburg Region, have been completed." By the end of this year, it is planned to complete their pilot operation and put on alert radar surveillance of missile-hazardous areas in designated areas of responsibility, " - he added.

-Itar tass

Russia to deploy new generation radar in Crimea

The missile early warning system is designed to get and provide data on missile launches and missile trajectories to state and military governance posts to warn about a missile attack

MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. Russia’s new generation radar Voronezh-SM will be deployed on the Crimean peninsula in the coming years, Chief Designer of RTI hi-tech firm and chief designer of the missile early warning system Sergei Boyev said on Thursday.

"In the coming years," he said in reply to a question from TASS.

Responding to a question about whether this would be 2018 or 2019, Boyev said: "Perhaps, 2020."

The missile early warning system is designed to get and provide data on missile launches and missile trajectories to state and military governance posts to warn about a missile attack. The system also provides data on space objects for outer space control. Russia’s new-generation Voronezh radars make the basis of the country’s ground-based missile early warning system.

Currently, four new Voronezh radars are on combat duty in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Irkutsk Regions and the Krasnodar Territory. Three more new Voronezh radars have assumed experimental combat duty in the Krasnoyarsk and Altai Regions, and also in the Orenburg Region. They are expected to complete their experimental operation and switch to combat duty until the end of 2017.


More:
http://tass.com/defense/978226

The new radars were deployed in Siberia’s Krasnoyarsk and Altai regions and the Orenburg Region in southern Urals. (based nr.Yeniseysk, Barnaul & Orsk)

More:
http://tass.com/defense/981965



http://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12155596@egNews

George1 wrote:Construction of "Voronezh-DM" radar in the Murmansk region



http://bmpd.livejournal.com/2253158.html

this could be the site of the new Radar at Murmansk / Olenogorsk

A new radar station "Voronezh" will be built in Crimea

The Ministry of defense of Russia took a decision to build on the territory of Crimea the newest radar "Voronezh". New radars will cover the radar dome of the Mediterranean sea down to Gibraltar, report "Izvestia" with reference to the Ministry of defense.

As reports the edition, the issue with the construction of new radar station "Voronezh" in the Crimea has already been decided, currently the selection of the construction site of the station. According to preliminary information, a possible location of the station will be the Nakhimovsky area of Sevastopol, but can be placed elsewhere. However, it is known that the radar will be placed in the coast, the terrain will not interfere with her work. The plant commissioning is planned to be commissioned by 2023.

The defense Ministry said that although the radar network around the perimeter of the country is restored, a new station will strengthen the unified radar field, and will track movement of airplanes and satellites, as well as the launches of any ballistic and cruise missiles of the enemy until Gibraltar.

Station "Voronezh" will replace in the Crimea early warning radar type "Dnepr", built in the Soviet Union on the Cape Chersonesus, and which, after the collapse of the Soviet Union went to Ukraine. About 10 years ago, radar "Dnepr" was finally closed.

Note that the radar "Voronezh" - modular. All station equipment is collected and configured in the factory, and then at the construction site of the station assembled from modules and checks the operation of the apparatus.

https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.ru/https/vpk.name/news/269474_novaya_rls_voronezh_budet_postroena_v_kryimu.html

Russia gives more details about Voronezh early warning radar station for Crimea
Bruce Jones, London - Jane's Defence Weekly
05 April 2019

The Russian Ministry of Defence has given further details of its proposed Voronezh strategic early warning radar station to be built in Crimea, the Izvestia news portal reported on 2 April.

Plans for the radar site were first reported in 2017. Construction is scheduled to begin in 2019, for completion by 2023. The station is the Voronezh-M variant operating in the metre-band with a detection range of up to 6,000 km, not the Voronezh-SM version operating in the shorter centimetre-band previously reported.

Difficulties have been reported in providing sufficient electricity for the high consumption required by the 10-storey Voronezh system, but Crimea recently began supplying excess energy to the Kuban region on the Russian 'mainland'.

https://www.janes.com/article/87714/russia-gives-more-details-about-voronezh-early-warning-radar-station-for-crimea