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Vityam / Vitim - Radar of Space Measurements

NIIDAR is offering the "Vitim" radar station, which is very similar in appearance to the Voronezh-DM Radar. Vitim's station is a bit smaller. Voronezh-DM has 10 technical floors - "Vitim" has 8 floors. It was initially unclear where it was located. But what is typical: for the Laguna coastal radar presented also in the booklets, the illustrations were all exclusively computer, but Vitim-suspiciously "live" picture, so probably somewhereit was already deployed "quietly". This radar was created by specialists of the Open Joint-Stock Company "Scientific and Production Complex" Research Institute for Long-Distance Radio Communication "(JSC" NPK "NIIDAR").

It is an information monitoring tool for the aerospace environment, providing in a continuous mode detection, tracking and classification of ballistic, space and aerodynamic objects passing through a given observation zone. It operates in the decimeter range of waves in the observation zone over a range of 50 to 4000 km. The station can detect objects depending on their EPR in the range from 2000 to 4000 km.

The Vitim radar is designed to solve the following tasks:

• search, detection and tracking of ballistic missiles and their warheads, artificial satellites, aerodynamic targets (ADC) in the observation zone;
• determination of the coordinates and parameters of the movement of the BR, GCH, AES and ADCs passing through the observation zone;
• classification of the accompanying targets on the grounds of "BR", "AES" (artificial earth satellites), "ADC" (aerodynamic purposes);
• detection, tracking, determination of radiation characteristics, trajectory parameters and areas of incidence of sources of active interference emitted in the working radar range of the Vitim radar;
• the formation of standard messages and the issuance of information to the consumer about detected and accompanied targets and sources of interference.

The main operating mode of the radar is a continuous 24-hour monitoring of the surveillance zone (taking into account the time for carrying out preventive works). The radar is built on a modular principle, which allowed to abandon stationary facilities, and also allows to take into account the requirements of the Customer as much as possible. A high degree of factory readiness of the radar equipment, as well as automation of device parameters control, ensures a minimum amount of installation and tuning work for radar entry.

Vitim is one of the largest rivers in Eastern Siberia, the right tributary of the Lena. Vitim is a river in the Asian part of Russia, in Eastern Siberia, in the Republic of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Irkutsk Region, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); the right tributary of Lena. The name "Vitim" the river receives below the confluence of the Vitimkan and Chin rivers in the mountains of Western Transbaikalia in the Republic of Buryatia. Many Siberian waterways are fighting for the honor of being called the prototype of the Ugryum River. The same - from the beautiful book of Vyacheslav Shishkov. However, Vitim is still beyond competition. Anyone who has ever rafted through his unpredictable waters and read a novel, will confirm: here it is.

The total length of the river is 1978 km. It originates on the eastern slopes of the Ikat Ridge. In the upper courses is called Vitimkan. In translation from the Evenk "kan" - a small, that is, Little Vitim. By the way, this ending "kan" has a lot of rivulets in those places. Actually Vitim is formed at the confluence of Vitimkan with the river Chin, flowing from the slopes of the Tzipikan massif. Vitim on the way to Lena, skirting the Vitim plateau and across the South Muisky and North-Muysky ranges of the Stanovoi Plateau, several times sharply changes the direction of the current and then flows into Lena. Vitim is one of the wildest and most peculiar rivers of Eastern Siberia. A great connoisseur of the region, academician VA Obruchev wrote that Vitim is much more self-willed, more majestic and more impressive than the lazy Lena.