MOSCOW: Russia will modernise and relaunch a Soviet-era radar station on the Crimean peninsula annexed from Ukraine to provide early warning of missile strikes, a senior defence official said Saturday.
The radar station in the port city of Sevastopol will become fully operational in 2016, the commander of the air and space defence forces, Alexander Golovko, was quoted as saying by the TASS news agency.
“The radar station’s Dnepr warning system on air strikes, based in Sevastopol, will become part of Russia’s missile warning system after modernisation, and will become operational in 2016,” Golovko said.
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Source: theSun
