By Prensa Latina,
Moscow : A Russian anti-missile surveillance system will be operative by February 2009 with its installation in Armavir, Krasnodar, a military source informed.
The head of Space Troops, Vladimir Popovkin explained that the electronic radar detector placed in the southern region of the Federation will substitute Ukrainian anti-rocket alert systems of Mukachevo and Sebastopol.
Moscow and Kiev closed the agreement over the use of these two installations, the military official recalled during the inauguration of a monument honoring academician Nikolai Piliuguin, creator of the guided systems of the space missile complexes.
The Armavir construction began in May of 2008 to guarantee observation of 4,200 kilometers of the sector that links Northern Africa to China including countries such as Iran, Pakistan and India and its reach can extend to six thousand kilometers.
The Kremlin proposed that the United States share this radar and another rented in Gabala, Azerbaijan in exchange for Washington discarding its anti missile project in Poland and the Czech Republic.
At the same time, another Russian new generation radio-electronic surveillance system is ready to become operative in Lejtusi, in Saint Petersburg.
This base is connected to the national anti missile observation network and can detect objectives up to a distance of 4,000 kilometers, sources reported.
Its mission is to prevent attacks from the space between the North Pole and southern Africa.