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Russia Switches On a Gargantuan Over-the-Horizon Radar to Spot Assailants From the West
https://russia-insider.com/en/russia-switches-gargantuan-over-horizon-radar-spot-assailants-west/ri27990
[edited by anon for compactness - part 1 of 2]
Russia will set up a new, long-range over-the-horizon [phased array] radar system to help “control” the Arctic by providing additional early warning and monitoring capability with regards to various potential threats, including aircraft, cruise missiles, and hypersonic weapons.
Konteiner is an extremely large, bistatic system consisting of separate high-frequency [HF] transmitter and receiver arrays. The complete transmitter array, which has 36 masts, is just over 1,440 ft (439m) wide, while the receiver's 144 masts occupy an area 4,265' (1300m) wide. The transmitter and receiver sites in Mordovia are separated by 186 miles.
It bounces signals off the ionosphere to see around Earth’s curvature… fixed coverage in a given direction across a 180-degree arc… detect and track objects up to the edge of space and 1,240-1,864 mi (2000-3000 km) away, depending on the size and type of the target, weather, atmospheric conditions…
Over-the-horizon radars are useful to track targets at extended distances, but do not provide the necessary fidelity to actually cue surface-to-air missiles or anti-missile interceptors to shoot them down … provide early warning of potential threats as part of an integrated air defense network, so that aircraft, ships, and other ground-based sensors can work to identify and possibly engage them. Their range means they can also be positioned further inland, making them less vulnerable to short and no-notice attacks.
…2nd system somewhere in N Russia aimed at the Arctic makes sense and could provide monitor for air and missile threats in the increasingly important region. Konteiner’s range could allow it to be positioned in a more hospitable environment rather than a location well above the Arctic circle, where it could be expensive and complicated to build and maintain the necessary facilities.
It would still be linked to the larger Russian integrated air defense network … smaller ground-based radars, aircraft, and ships based at rehabilitated or all-new Arctic facilities being built recently.
…unclear if it can track low-flying cruise missiles or modern hypersonic threats, such as boost-glide vehicles or air-breathing hypersonic missiles.
…could indicate that Russia is increasingly concerned about American air- and sea-launched hypersonic weapons… missiles that will eventually be available for some US Navy submarines that could hide under the Arctic ice before launch.
[part 2 of 2]
Though the Russians have not specifically highlighted this capability, as a lower frequency radar system the 29B6 could detect the presence of incoming stealth aircraft or missiles. …Such bistatic low-frequency active and passive radars do not negate stealth technology … not accurate enough for an engagement-quality radar track.
Others concerned about Arctic flank exposure…
On 11/23/19, USAF Gen Terrence O’Shaughnessy, commander US NORTHCOM and NORAD, raised concerns about limited US military situational awareness in the region… “We have to be aware of what is happening in that environment,” he said. At present, NORAD relies heavily on the North Warning System (NWS), which includes 15 AN/FPS-117 long-range radars and 39 AN/FPS-124 short-range radars across northern Canada. The NWS is the successor to the Cold War-era Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, a significant portion of which was deactivated in the late 1980s… [The US] also operates a number of large phased-array radars, primarily for detecting and tracking ballistic missiles, some of which provide coverage over the Arctic. These include Solid State Phased Array Radars in Alaska, Greenland, and UK. …further bolstered by space-based early-warning assets, an area where Russia has historically had much less capacity.
Unfortunately, the foreboding environment makes improving ground-based US early warning capability in the Arctic, including to be able to better spot cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons, which the Pentagon also sees as growing threats, as difficult for the US as it is for Russia.
“We’ve done this before,” Gen O’Shaughnessy said. “Simple things become hard,” he added, citing specifically how satellite comms are more difficult above 65 degree parallel due to satellite constellations' position in orbit.
Whether this means the US may also turn to over-the-horizon radars, as the Russians appear to be, or focus more on other terrestrial capabilities or simply expanding polar satellite early warning coverage instead remains to be seen.
…Unclear when Russia’s 29B6 radar pointed toward the Arctic may become operational. Russia began developing Konteiner back in 2007 and only finished building the first site in 2013. …Another 6 years to pass testing and evaluation before becoming operational. …experience with the initial example of the system provided lessons learned that could speed up the construction and activation of future arrays.
Regardless, the announcement underscores Russia’s steadily increasing efforts to expand its force posture and overall military capabilities in and around the Arctic region.
The original article was very wordy and I hope my edits for compactness did justice to the info contained within
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Bible evidence suggests that Jesus was a Nazarite. If so, He did have long hair.
(Heb. form Nazirite), the name of such Israelites as took on them the vow prescribed in Numbers 6:2-21 . The word denotes generally one who is separated from others and consecrated to God. Although there is no mention of any Nazarite before Samson, yet it is evident that they existed before the time of Moses. The vow of a Nazarite involved these three things, (1) abstinence from wine and strong drink, (2) refraining from cutting the hair off the head during the whole period of the continuance of the vow, ….
https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/nazarite/
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