Lekhtusi Radar Station is an

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near Lekhtusi in

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. It is a key part of the Russian early warning system against missile attack, going on combat duty on 11 February 2012. It is run by the

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. There have been a number of announcements about the introduction of this radar, the first one of the third generation

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series of

. It first entered testing in December 2005, experimental service a year later, service in December 2009 and finally combat duty in 2012. The station is south west of the village of Lekhtusi and north north east of

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. It is adjacent to the A.F. Mozhaysky Military-Space Academy which is an officer training centre for the Russian Space Forces.

Voronezh radar

Voronezh radar are highly prefabricated radars needing fewer personnel and using less energy than previous generations. The one built in Lekhtusi is described as Voronezh-M, a VHF radar with a stated range of . The radar was described by Space Forces commander Oleg Ostapenko as covering north west Russia and replacing coverage lost when the radar at

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in Latvia was decommissioned in 1998.

References

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