Rezonans-NE VHF Radar - Deployement in Russia
According to the ex-chief of the anti-aircraft missile forces Alexander Gorkov, the tasks of the North command in the Arctic, first of all, include the protection of the forces of the Northern Fleet and its nuclear fleet, as well as ensuring the security of industrial regions of Central Russia, the Urals and Siberia. It is noted that new formations are practically restoring the infrastructure that existed in the Arctic during Soviet times. Then there served the 10-I army of air defense. However, in the nineties, it was disbanded.
In the Arctic, Russia deployed a radar complex "Resonance-N" with elements of artificial intelligence. According to the Ministry of Defense, the station entered service with the Northern Fleet at the end of 2018. The complex is designed for the long-range detection of a wide range of modern air objects. It is also able to classify aircraft created using stealth technology, mini-UAVs and hypersonic devices. The station's capabilities are greatly enhanced by the phased array antenna, in addition, the locator can automatically exchange information with other radars in automatic mode. The range of "Resonance" - 1100 km, is able to provide target designation of air defense systems, located at a distance of 600 km.
The third in the Russian Arctic, the Resonance-N radar, capable of detecting stealth aerial objects, cruise missiles, ballistic and hypersonic targets, will take up combat duty on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in November 2019. This was announced to TASS on 24 October 2019 by the Director General of the Resonance Research Center Ivan Nazarenko. "The third in the Arctic, the Resonance-N radar is deployed on Novaya Zemlya. The radar will take up combat duty this November," he said. Nazarenko added that the station is already on, configured and ready for combat use, an interdepartmental commission is currently working to accept and transfer it to the Northern Fleet air defense.
According to him, to date, the Russian military received four Resonance-N stations, the fifth is at the stage of completion. Two stations are already on duty. "The task of all radars is to cover the northern direction in the Arctic," Nazarenko said. “The meter wavelength range of the station allows us to detect aircraft made using stealth technologies and hypersonic targets flying at speeds of up to 20 Mach, because when using it, there is a resonant increase in the effective reflective surface of aircraft,” the director general said.
The radar is capable of detecting and providing target designation for aerodynamic air targets at a range of 600 km, for ballistic targets - up to 1200 km, in height up to 100 km. The first Resonance-N radar was put on combat duty in Russia five earlier.
In November 2019, in the Arctic on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya, the third in a row radar complex "Resonance-N" enters combat alert. He will be able to detect ballistic objects of any complexity, as well as cruise missiles, hypersonic targets and aircraft created using the stealth technology under the conditions of electronic counteraction and natural interference.
The radar system was already on and is in test mode. In the near future, it would be transferred to the units of the radio engineering troops of the 45th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense, which is part of the Northern Fleet. In total, Russian air defense in the Arctic region should acquire four such resonances "Resonance-N". Two of them were already on alert.
The new complex was specially modernized to operate in the Far North. It will seriously enhance the combat capabilities of the anti-aircraft group in the Arctic region, through which it is most convenient for a likely enemy to strike in areas of the Urals, Siberia and Central Russia.
Two Rezonans-N radars capable of spotting hypersonic targets will be deployed on the Kola Peninsula in the Russian Arctic by the end of the year, a source in the defense industry told TASS on 07 February 2020. "Two Rezonans-N radar stations will be deployed on the Kola Peninsula in 2020 to boost the combat potential of the Northern Fleet. One radar is already being fielded while the second station has been delivered to the peninsula and is due to be deployed by the end of 2020," the source said. The Northern Fleet earlier received three such stations: two in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and one on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Russian Arctic. Therefore, five ‘hypersonic target hunters’ will be monitoring missile-threat directions within the Fleet’s responsibility area by the end of the year, the source added.
On the Kola Peninsula in the north-east of Russia, on the border with Norway, a radar station has been built that is likely to enable early detection and tracking of aircraft using stealth technology, such as the F-35 fighters that neighboring Norway and Finland intend to use in the region, the Barents Observer website reported on 27 June 2022. The high-frequency radar station Rezonans-NE covers an area of 100 by 100 meters and is located near the mining town of Zapolarnoye, about 10 kilometers from the Russian-Norwegian border. This place was designated for the construction of the NE Resonance for two years and the comparison of satellite images from 2019 and 2021 shows the effects of the work carried out.
The Barents Observer noted that the airports in Evenes in Norway and Rovaniemi in Finland were within the radar's operating range. At Evenes, NATO already has a pair of F-35 fighters on duty to detect and identify Russian planes flying from the Kola Peninsula. The first F-35s purchased by Finland, which are to enter service in 2025, will be stationed in Rovaniemi, the portal reminded. He added that Evenes is 570 km away from Zapolarnoje, and Rovaniemi is 380 km away.
As another source in the defense industry told TASS in January 2020, Russia’s General Staff has decided to order five more Rezonans-N radar stations. They are expected to be deployed in the Arctic east of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago. "The General Staff has decided to deploy in Russia’s north five more Rezonans-N radars capable of detecting hypersonic targets, in addition to the five stations already ordered," the source said. After all the ten radars are deployed in the Russian Arctic, the "north-eastern missile-dangerous area will be fully covered by the ‘hunters’ for hypersonic targets," the source added.
The Resonance-N hypersonic target detection radar will take up combat duty on the Novaya Zemlya archipelago no later than June 2021. This was reported to TASS 14 April 2021 by Alexander Shramchenko, Director General of the Research Center (SIC) "Resonance". "The third station" Resonance-N "will be put on alert on Novaya Zemlya in May-June this year," he said. According to him, this will happen due to the fact that "through the efforts of the Air Defense Command of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation and the leadership of the Resonance Research Center, the Resonance-N radar station on Novaya Zemlya has been included in the staff of the radio technical troops of the 45th Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Northern Fleet." In addition, Shramchenko continued, this was due to the completed selection of personnel for the station's combat crew and the assistance of specialists from the Resonance Research Center in its preparation for taking up combat duty.
The fourth and fifth radars for detecting hypersonic targets "Resonance-N" will be put on alert in the Arctic until the end of 2021, Shramchenko said. "By the end of this year, it is planned to commission two more Resonance-N radars in the Arctic zone - in Gremikha and Zapolyarny," he said. Shramchenko emphasized that the station deployed in Zapolyarny, 30 km from the Russian-Norwegian border, "will provide round-the-clock control of the airspace over the northern territories of Norway and Finland."
The first and second stations of this type have been successfully on alert for several years in the areas of Shoina (Kanin Nos peninsula) and Indiga (400 km to the east). The third was deployed to Novaya Zemlya at the end of 2019, and will soon take up combat duty.
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