Here we are going to see a unique radar that has no analogues in the world.
Don-2N (Pill Box) is a stationary multi-functional radar with a phased-array antenna based in the Moscow region. The radar is a four-sided truncated pyramid which is 33 m high. Every side is 130 m long along the basis and 90 m long along the roof.
A missile defense system consists of two key elements such as the ballistic-missile detector and missiles for their annihilation or anti-missiles. The system that lacks any element is totally useless.
Ballistic missiles move as follows: they perform launch and boost, move along the ballistic trajectory and enter dense layers of atmosphere which is followed by target hitting.
With the new Gazelle missiles, the Moscow ABM system is arguably the most effective in the world.
WW3. Soon.
Yeah.
Probably gonna break out in the Persian Gulf, seeing as the US 5th Fleet and the Iranian Navy are now facing each other, waiting for one side to make a wrong move.
@ayaa, what do you think would happen should there be a war against Iran? Does Iran have any chance?
If they use what they have right, they can throw back any invasion attempt. They have plenty of powerful anti-ship missiles, not to mention plenty of older missiles. First, launch the older missiles at the US fleet first, and while the fleets defenses are busy dealing with the barrage, launch the new missiles, prefferably with powerful warheads. Goodbye, US 5th fleet.
Strategists have projected any conflict will be limited mostly to denial operations in the Red Sea region and anti-missile and possibly anti-nuclear operations. These will be limited in scope. Predictions indicate Iran will have no ability to counter US force in the Red Sea (worst case scenario) 2 weeks.
Note: The above is not an argument for or against the merits of conflict
Iran’s missile capabilities are extremely limited. Despite this, this is probably one of their greatest strengths. Also of strategic use is their diver teams (explosives) speedboats and mining technology. If used right, these could be a significant problem.
However, these can all be repealed by various means. The US Fifth Fleet has been focusing on crafting strategies to deal with asymmetric threats and other denial strategies.
You don’t actually impact the missile with another. The US was only capable of doing this recently, at great cost and after solving many problems (such as processor speed).
Back then, in the 70′s and 80′s, the way a warhead was killed, was by detonating either another nuke, or a huge non-nuke near the warhead. The resulting blast would hopefully, knock out the ones you want.
But, that comes at a great cost too, because now, you just detonated an EMP over your own territory.
Back in the 70′s, 80′s, we (nobody) had the kind of technology needed to knock out a missile in flight, with another. That’s like trying to shoot one bullet, with another.
This radar system is of the same technology of the US PAVE PAWS(Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System) with an AN/FPS-1XX radar transmission and receiving technology.
The systems are used to track incoming missiles and orbiting satellites. What makes these type systems unique is that the unit can “track” and “scan” with a stationary array antenna. Typical range for detection of incoming missiles was about 3000 miles.(about 5000 kilometres) The frequency range used by this system is much lower than tradition radar. So low, in fact, that it intrudes into the 70cm ametuer radio spectrum.
The US current has operational systems in Alaska, Greenland, California and several other locations.
They are quite interesting systems,I visited the Warner Robins, Georgia PAVE PAWS facility(now inactive) in the mid to late eighties.
Good to know all those Dakota hillbillies were safe.
There are a few “hillbillies” in the Dakotas. They would probably prefer “tater kickers.”
Just joking! They actually have a U. there (maybe 2?)….
It’s impressive but not unique. As for performance, the US/UK ones are classified, so nobody other than insiders can definitively say which works best. See:
It’s impressive but not unique. As for performance, the US/UK ones are classified, so nobody other than insiders can definitively say which works best. See:
http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/f/fylingdales/
“a unique radar that has no analogues in the world.” Well…except for the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard/Sprint complex in Nekoma, North Dakota after which it was copied from.
Right. It’s Russian, so it obviously had to be copied from something American.
@jeff, what’s your evidence that this is a copy of the “Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard/Sprint complex in Nekoma, North Dakota”??
The station Don-2N started functioning in 1989, Safeguard/Sprint complex in Nekoma started functioning in 1992, it seems that America had copied from Russia.
Very good photo of the rear of the steerable-phased-array system. Not something that would be shown of a US site, nice and tech-ie.
It is quite a bit different from PAVE/PAWS systems, at least the way it is physically built, as shown in that photo. Perhaps the specs are similar, as physics in general – in the way radio imaging works, and thus how it is constructed would be somewhat similar for a particular range of rf freqs, regardless of what country the system belongs to.
Its other way , American had copied from russia
Russia ftw
Man that tries to save himself will lose his soul.
What good does it do to have the ability to destroy the world 100 times over when you cannot even feed your people.
It would do plenty good to whoever is left, if you were destroyed.