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Voronezhradar
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Voronezhradars(Russian:)arethecurrentgeneration
ofRussianearlywarningradar,providinglongdistance
monitoringofairspaceagainstballisticmissileattackandaircraft
monitoring.Thefirstradar,inLekhtusinearStPetersburg,
becameoperationalin2009.Thereisaplantoreplaceolder
radarswiththeVoronezhby2020.[5]

Voronezh

TheircommonnamefollowsthepatternofSovietradarsinbeing
namedafterariver,theVoronezh.Thepreviousgenerationof
radarwasknownastheDaryal(afterDarialGorge),Volga(after
VolgaRiver)andDaugava(DaugavaRiver)andthegeneration
beforetheDnepr(DnieperRiver),andDnestr(DniesterRiver).

FrontoftheVoronezhDMradararrayin
Pionersky,Kaliningrad,November2011

TheVoronezhradarsaredescribedashighlyprefabricated
meaningthattheyhaveasetuptimeofmonthsratherthanyears
andneedfewerpersonnelthanpreviousgenerations.Theyare
alsomodularsothataradarcanbebroughtinto(partial)
operationwhilstbeingincomplete.[6]

Country
oforigin

Russia

Introduced

2009

Russiahasusedthelaunchofthesenewradarstoraiseits
concernsaboutUSmissiledefenceinEurope.Atthelaunchof
theKaliningradradarinNovember2011RussianPresident
DmitryMedvedevwasquotedassaying"Iexpectthatthisstep
[thelaunchoftheradar]willbeseenbyourpartnersasthe
firstsignalofourcountry'sreadinesstomakeanadequate
responsetothethreatswhichthemissileshieldposesforour
strategicnuclearforces."[7]

Type

PhasedarrayEarlywarningradar

Frequency

VoronezhM:150200MHz(VHF)
VoronezhDM:0.1mwavelength

Numberbuilt 7operationalin2016,others
planned

(UHF)[1]
Range

Upto10,000km[2]

Power

Claimed0.7MWconsumption[3][4]

OtherNames 77YA6

Contents
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Types
Installations
Locations
References
Externallinks

Pionersky
Lekhtusi

Armavir

Yeniseysk

Orsk

Barnaul Irkutsk

Types
Alltypesarephasedarrayradar.[8]

Voronezhradar,operationalandunderconstruction.
VHF(M/VP)radar
UHF(DM)radar

VoronezhM(77Ya6M)worksinthemeter
rangeofwavelengths(VHF)andwasdesignedbyRTIMints.
VoronezhDM(77Ya6DM)worksinthedecimeterrange(UHF)andwasdesignedbyNPKNIIDAR.Ithasa
rangeofupto10,000kmandiscapableofsimultaneouslytracking500objects.[9][10]In2015,itsmaximum
rangeis10,000km.Itshorizonrangeis6000kmandverticalrangeis8000km.Atadistanceof8000km,the
radarcandetecttargetsthesizeofa"footballball."[2]
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VoronezhVP(77Ya6VP)worksinthemeterrange(VHF)and
wasdesignedbyRTIMints.Theonlyonebuilthas6segments
insteadofthe3oftheVoronezhM.[11]
AVoronezhMisclaimedtocost2.85billionrublesandaVoronezh
DM4.3billionrubles.[12][13]Thiscomparestothe5billionrublecostof
aDneprand19.8billionrublesforaDaryal,[12]atcurrentprices.
VoronezhsystemsaremanufacturedattheSaranskTelevisionPlant.[14]
Theirdesigners,SergeyBoev(RTI),SergeySaprykin(NIIDAR),and
ValeriyKarasev(RTIMints),werejointlyawardedthe2011StatePrize
forScienceandTechnologyfortheirworkontheVoronezh.[15][16]

RearoftheVoronezhMradararrayin
Lekhtusi

Installations
Thefirstradar,aVoronezhM,wasbuiltinLekhtusinearStPetersburg.
Itenteredtestingin2005andwasdeclared"combatready"in2012.[17]
ItisadjacenttotheA.MozhayskyMilitarySpaceAcademy,whichis
anofficertrainingcentrefortheAerospaceDefenceForces.[18]Itis
describedasfillingtheearlywarninggapcausedbytheclosureofthe
radarstationatSkrundainLatviain1998,[19]althoughtheVolgaradar
inHantsavichy,Belarus,hasalsobeendescribedasdoingthis,andasa
UHFradartheVolgahasadifferentresolutionfromtheVHFVoronezh
M.

DmitryMedvedevorderstheinputradar
"VoronezhDM"ofthetroopsaerospace
defense,Kaliningrad2011

ThesecondradarisatArmavirinsouthernRussiaonthesiteof
BaronovskyAirfield.ItisaVoronezhDM,aUHFradarandwas
announcedasreplacingthecoveragelostwhentheDnestrradarsin
SevastopolandMukachevo,Ukraine,wereclosedin2009.Thereare
actuallytworadarsatthissite,thefirstonecoversthesouthwestandcouldreplacetheUkrainianradars.[20]The
secondonefacingsoutheastandcouldreplacetheDaryalradarinGabalathatclosedattheendof2012.[21][22]
ThethirdradaristothesouthofPionerskyinKaliningrad,onthesiteofDunayevkaairfield.ItisanotherUHF
VoronezhDMandissurroundedbycountriesthatarenowinNATO.Thereisonlyoneradarhereanditisfully
operationalin2014.[23][24]

AradarwasbuiltatMishelevkainIrkutskonthesiteoftheformer,andneveroperational,Daryalradarwhichwas
demolishedin2011.[25]TheradarisaVoronezhVPandissitedclosetotheformerDaryaltransmitterbuilding.[26]
ThisradarcoversthesouthandcanreplaceoneofthetwoDneprradarsatthatsite.AnotherVoronezhVParraywas
plannedwhichgives240degreescoverage[27]andthisisreadyby2014.[13][28]
ItisplannedtobuildaVoronezhVPradaratPechorain2015toreplacetheDaryalthere.SimilarlyaVoronezhVPis
plannedforOlenegorskin2017toreplacetheDnepr/Daugava.[29]Aspartofthepublicnegotiationsoverthefutureof
GabalaRadarStationithadbeensuggestedthattheDaryaltherecouldbereplacedbyaVoronezhVPin2017,
althoughthestationclosedattheendof2012instead.[13][14]
WorkstartedonthestationatBarnaulin2013,otherlocationsannouncedareOmsk,Yeniseyskand
Orenburg.[14][30][31]

Locations
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Location
LekhtusiRadarStation,
LeningradOblast

ArmavirRadarStation,
KrasnodarKrai

Coordinates

Type

Built

Details

601631.65N Voronezh Until

303245.66E M
2005

Operational2009,[32]commissioned2012.[33]
fillsgapincoveragecausedbylossofSkrunda1
radar[19][34]

445530.38N Voronezh
2009
40592.02E DM

Tworadarsatthissite.[20][35]Oneiscurrently
operationalandcoversthesouthwest,thesecond
stagecoversthesouth/southeastandcould
replaceGabalaRadarStationinAzerbaijan.[36]
FullyfunctionalinApril2015.[37]

PionerskyRadarStationat
formerDunayevkaairbase 54.857294N
nearPionersky,
20.18235E
KaliningradOblast

Voronezh
2012
DM

MishelevkaRadarStation, 525120.11N Voronezh

2014
IrkutskOblast
1031353.94E VP

Operational(inpart)November2011.[6]Fully
operationalby2014[23][38]
DaryalUradardemolishedJune2011,newradar
beingtestedinApril2012anditisfully
operationalin2014.[25][29][39][40]

NearYeniseysk,
KrasnoyarskKraibut
nottheformerradarsite

58.506095N
92.046072E

Voronezh 2013
[41][42]
DM
onwards

NearBarnaul,AltaiKrai

530821.1N
834052.5E

Voronezh 2013
[31][41][43]
DM
onwards

NearOrsk,Orenburg
Oblast

51.273346N
58.959030E

Voronezh 2013
Started.[41][44]
M
onwards

NearVorgashor,Komi
butnottheformerradar
siteatPechora

unknownyet

Voronezh
M

WouldreplacecurrentDaryalradar,construction
started2015[45]

Voronezh
VP

WouldreplaceDnestr/Daugavaradaratthissite,
claimedtostart2017[29]

68659.63N
OlenegorskRadarStation,
33558.69E
MurmanskOblast
roughly

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