Joint CIS Air Defense System

Ex-Soviet states to set up 3 joint regional air defense networks

RIA Novosti

20:30 16/09/2009 ASTRAKHAN (South Russia), September 16 (RIA Novosti) - Several members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are involved in creating three joint regional air defense structures as part of the CIS integrated air defense network.

Members of the Coordinating Committee on Air Defense under the CIS Defense Ministers' Council met in Astrakhan on Wednesday and discussed setting up East European, Caucasus,

and Central Asian air defense networks.

The CIS integrated air defense network was set up by 10 CIS member countries on February 10, 1995. The main purpose of the network is to secure member-states' airspace, including through early warning of missile attacks and coordination of joint efforts to neutralize potential aerial threats.

The network currently comprises 46 units equipped with S-200 and S-300 air defense missile systems, 23 fighter units equipped with MiG-29, MiG-31 and Su-27 aircraft, 22 electronic support units and two electronic warfare detachments.

The East European network will be set up by Russia and Belarus in line with an agreement signed in February on the joint protection of the Russia-Belarus Union State's airspace and the creation of an integrated regional air defense network.

It will comprise five Air Force units, 10 anti-aircraft units, five technical service and support units and one electronic warfare unit, and will be placed under the command of a Russian or Belarusian Air Force or Air Defense Force senior commander.

Belarus has several Russian-made S-300 air defense battalions on combat duty, and has long been negotiating the purchase of advanced S-400 systems from Russia, which should be available in 2010.

The Caucasus air defense network will be set up by Russia and Armenia. The draft agreement is still in the works and needs additional negotiations to ensure "clear principles of the deployment and command of air defense forces."

"The draft document will be ready by the end of 2009," said Col. Nikolai Babayan, chief of Armenia's Air Defense Forces.

Unlike the East European and Central Asian commands, the airspace of the Caucasus network will not be continuous as Georgia and Azerbaijan separate Russia and Armenia.

Maj. Gen. Okas Saparov, deputy commander of Kazakhstan's Air Defense Forces, said that a working group has been formed to discuss setting up a joint Central Asian regional air defense network, which will involve Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

"Most of the issues dealing with drafting up an agreement [on a joint air defense network] have been resolved," Saparov said.

Kazakhstan signed a contract with Russia in March on the purchase of S-300 air defense missile systems, while Russia operates an airbase in the city of Kant, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) outside the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

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CIS air defense units to hold live firing drills in 2011

RIA Novosti

17:49 20/10/2010

YALTA, October 20 (RIA Novosti) - Units from a joint air defense system of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) will conduct exercises involving live firing drills in August-September 2011, the Russian defense minister said on Wednesday.

Defense ministers from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine met in Crimea to discuss military ties and adopt the agenda of military cooperation for 2011.

Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said after the meeting that the Combat Commonwealth 2011 air defense exercises at the Ashuluk firing range in the Astrakhan Region near the Caspian Sea were top of the agenda for next year.

Conducted annually, such exercises are part of efforts to build a joint air defense shield for the CIS, a loose association of former Soviet republics. An integrated air defense network was set up by 10 CIS-member countries February 10, 1995.

The main purpose of the network is to ensure the protection of the member-countries' airspace, early warning of missile attacks and coordination of joint efforts to neutralize potential air threats.

The CIS network currently comprises seven air defense brigades, 46 units equipped with S-200 and S-300 air defense missile systems, 23 fighter units equipped with MiG-29, MiG-31 and Su-27 aircraft, 22 electronic support units and two detachments of electronic warfare.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2010/10/mil-101020-rianovosti01.htm

Wonder if this will involve sharing border patrol duties?

The Aerospace Defence force in Russia has the task of monitoring and policing the airspace above Russia from the ground up into orbit... I wonder if they will consider cooperation with neighbour states, or go further and actually integrate them.

GarryB wrote:Wonder if this will involve sharing border patrol duties?

Dunno, but it's been around for a while. I imagine that this was not very complicated to set up, given that they all used to be part of the same IADS in the first place and still use Soviet/Russian/etc. radars and weapon systems.

In line with the concept of the exercises, Kyrgyzstan will play the role of a ‘designated adversary’ with its L-39 Albatros combat trainers and Su-25 Frogfoot ground attack aircraft.

Awesome... they might get some tips from exRNZAF Skyhawk pilots... most of them spent their day pretending to be low flying subsonic anti ship missiles... wouldn't be that much of a stretch to pretend to be cruise missiles...

Russia will give Belarus four C-300

Russian Defense Ministry intends to transfer Belarus four anti-aircraft missile system S-300. On this, as reported by ITAR-TASS , Russian Defense Minister Gen. Sergei Shoigu after a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart, Lieutenant General Yuri Zhadobin. Delivery systems will be made ​​in the framework of the development of a unified regional air defense system.
Russia and Belarus signed an agreement to form a united regional air defense system in February 2009. It is expected that this system will form the basis of the Eastern zone of the CIS unified air defense. At the end of 2012 it was planned to put into operation a digital control system unified air defense system of Russia and Belarus, the management of which will be carried out in an automated mode.
Earlier it was reported that adopted a common Russian-Belarusian air defense systems have to stand up anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 and "Tor-M2", which will be supplied to Belarus on favorable terms. General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces to assess the needs of air defense missile systems in 16 battalions of S-400, which will have to provide protection from cruise missiles from the West. Not excluded that a single air defense radar and get the type "Voronezh-DM".
As part of the formation of a unified air defense system of the CIS will also create the Caucasian and Central Asian zone defense. At the end of January 2013 an agreement on the formation of a unified air defense was signed with Kazakhstan, which until the end of 2013 can be freely supplied C-300 .
Expected to join the CIS unified air defense as Armenia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.After the formation of the unified regional air defense systems will be developed rules of combat duty and exchange of information within the CIS air defense.

Huh .... lots of interesting information. 

- Belarus will be given 4 batteries of used Russian S-300PMU1 from the stocks
- Russian need in the western sector calls for 16 S-400 batteries 
- all new digital command and control will manage combined Russia-Belarus air defense
- Kazahstan is paper cleared for deliveries of air defense systems (there was a talk about 12 S-300PMU2 - that questiong will actualize in the coming months)
- Formation of Western/Causasian and Central Asian zone defense
- Armenia, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will be integrated

 

Well from now on we may expect great deal of news pouring in this section as finally agreement was made to form a new unified air defense system that will protect 

Russia, Belarus, Kazahstan, Armenia, Kyrgystan and Tajikistan not in a form of idea but in a form of actual planing and realization of the project.

The concept of a unified aerospace defense system of the CIS will present at the end of 2014

This will lead the way for what I expect to be massive order of SAMs by Kazahstan. 

The State Duma ratified the agreement on a unified air defense system with Kazakhstan

Possibly some older Russian systems might be donated rather than scrapped.

Give the infrastructure an upgrade and transfer them with the promise that when the stocks of existing missiles run out they will get newer higher performance missiles to meet their needs.

Lets face it they largely need defending from US drones at best... everyone does...   

Now that all the parties have agreed to make the damn thing, design of the future unified air defense network can begin (that should last for the next 3/4 of the year) and 

at that time we can expect new voting that will accept its design after which construction can begin. 


SF ratified an agreement with Kazakhstan on unified air defense system

Well things are set in motion.

- 4 S-300 batteries for Belarus
- 5 S-300 batteries for Kazahstan (assumption)
- Armenia recently showed its S-300 which did not posses earlier

I just hope that the systems are not given for free all the way.


Kazakhstan, Russia will supply anti-aircraft missile systems S-300 in 2014

The Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said after talks with his Kazakh counterpart Adilbek Jaksybekov. How many complexes and on what conditions Russia will supply Kazakhstan, is not specified.

yup - its for free (damn) but I think those might later on be replaced with S-400. Either way those are S-300PS that Russia is withdrawing anyway.

Russia will give Kazakhstan five battalions of S-300

ASTANA, January 31 - RIA Novosti. Kazakhstan Russia free supply five battalions of anti-aircraft missile system S-300PS, told reporters on Friday Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov.

It seems Russia will all S-300 complexes replaced by S-400 give to Belarus and Kazakhstan, so they will still be active in common IADS. Maybe even Iran will get some battalions from replaced S-300. I don't know, how many they order.

medo wrote:It seems Russia will all S-300 complexes replaced by S-400 give to Belarus and Kazakhstan, so they will still be active in common IADS. Maybe even Iran will get some battalions from replaced S-300. I don't know, how many they order.

Iran ordered 5 batteries. Small amount but still much needed.

Russians up to new delivered 10-15 S-300P batteries free of charge:

- 4 got Belarus
- 5 got Kazahstan
- x got Armenia (somewhere between 1-5)

out of 30 S-300P batteries. (its no coincidence that Russia intends to buy 30 batteries of Vityaz S-350 system as S-300PS is being replaced 1 for 1)

The question is where will the rest of those 30 S-300PS batteries go which makes somewhere from 15-20 S-300P

So we give them S-300s for free, and still have to pay to use Baikanur?

Hopefully they at least pay for new missile rounds.

TR1 wrote:So we give them S-300s for free, and still have to pay to use Baikanur?

Hopefully they at least pay for new missile rounds.

It seems that Belarus and Kazahstan will have to pay for its repair and modernization (new round too I guess).

But then there were problems. According to Radio "Azattyk" in Kazakhstan started talking about the fact that these complexes are not new and in need of repair. If you recall, a similar discontent at the time expressed and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, when in 2007-2008 Russia gratis put brotherly country four divisions of S-300. "Air defense presented, and money for their recovery, and still have to pay" - outraged then Lukashenko. But still forked paid ... Of course, Kazakhstan will have to fork out too, to upgrade previously used Russian complexes. But still it is beneficial for the state's defense. For example, five battalions of S-300, which are intended for the Russian Federation to Iran in the contract, worth $ 800 million modernization will be much cheaper, especially on the agreement on military-technical cooperation, it will be based on domestic prices, and the training of Kazakhstan specialists at all is free of charge.

LINK

It also seems that the systems in question are not the S-300PS/PT, Russia is withdrawing from service but the ones from its stocks.

So, everything is going as planned

Kazakhstan Ratifies Joint Air Defense Shield Deal with Russia