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, providing long distance airspace monitoring and ballistic missile detection. The first radar, near

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, became operational in December 2013 and entered combat duty on 1 December, 2019. Another Container radar is planned to be deployed in

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Description

The radar can monitor the airspace up to 100 km altitude and has a 3,000 km range. It was developed by NPK

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, which is also a developer of Voronezh-DM radar. The chief designer was Valentin Strelkin, and the system's price was 10 billion rubles. The system consists of two separate antenna arrays: one for the transmitter and one for the receiver. The receiver antenna array contains 144 antenna masts, each 34 m high. The array has three sections: The inner section is 900 m wide with a 7 m spacing between masts, and the two outer sections are each 200 m wide with a 14 m spacing. The total array width is 1,300 m. The receiver station has three arrays, arranged in an equilateral triangle. The transmitter antenna array has 36 re-configurable masts and is 440 m wide. Radar signals were detected by some

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operators in the 9.2–19.745 MHz frequency band. Pulse repetition rate is 50 pulses per second, bandwidth about 14 kHz, frequency modulation on pulse (FMOP) is used. The received signal has a sound similar to the Soviet early warning system Duga radar operated from 1976–1989, nicknamed "the Russian woodpecker".

Location

The receiving antennas are located 8 km south-west from

, Mordovia, Russia . The transmitters' antennas were initially located 300 km from the receiver, 5 km north of Gorodets town, Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Russia . The site has been dismantled since at least February 2018, the new receivers are now located 15 km to the southeast . The system is aligned on a bearing of 095 and 275 degrees to monitor airspace west of Russia, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea region.

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* {{Soviet Radar Russian and Soviet military radars Over-the-horizon radars NIIDAR products Early warning systems Military equipment introduced in the 2010s