Russia To Deploy New-Generation Missile Early-Warning Container Radar On December 1

Russia to Deploy New-Generation Missile Early-Warning Container Radar on December 1

Russia's first over-the-horizon radar, the Container, providing long distance airspace monitoring and ballistic missile detection, will be put on test combat duty on December 1 in the central Russian region of Mordovia, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 30th November, 2018) Russia's first over-the-horizon radar, the Container, providing long distance airspace monitoring and ballistic missile detection, will be put on test combat duty on December 1 in the central Russian region of Mordovia, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.

"12/01/2018 - The first radar station with over-the-horizon detection capability will be put on test combat duty [Kovylkino, Republic of Mordovia]," the ministry said in a statement.