A-135 Moscow ABM system

zardof wrote:for my knowledge there are 5 ZRP under 9 AD Division

49th ZRP 12 A-135 Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E
16th ZRP 16 A135 Lytkarino 55°34′39.04″N 37°46′17.67″E
50th ZRP 12 A-135 Korolev 55°52′41.09″N 37°53′36.50″E
89th ZRP 16 A-135 Skhodnya 55°54′04.11″N 37°18′28.30″E
15th ZRP 12 A-135 Vnukovo 55°37′32.45″N 37°23′22.41″E

plus
482nd RTP radar reg Don-2N Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E

of course these systems are connected with all the other radar Voronezh-DM, DON, others RTP ....  making a network.

I nether heard about names of A-135 ZRP.... Who is clever than me ?
The A-235 has been test already and is supposed to replace the older one till 2017 ? I missed info again ?

franco wrote:

zardof wrote:for my knowledge there are 5 ZRP under 9 AD Division

49th ZRP 12 A-135 Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E
16th ZRP 16 A135 Lytkarino 55°34′39.04″N 37°46′17.67″E
50th ZRP 12 A-135 Korolev 55°52′41.09″N 37°53′36.50″E
89th ZRP 16 A-135 Skhodnya 55°54′04.11″N 37°18′28.30″E
15th ZRP 12 A-135 Vnukovo 55°37′32.45″N 37°23′22.41″E

plus
482nd RTP radar reg Don-2N Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E

of course these systems are connected with all the other radar Voronezh-DM, DON, others RTP ....  making a network.

I nether heard about names of A-135 ZRP.... Who is clever than me ?
The A-235 has been test already and is supposed to replace the older one till 2017 ? I missed info again ?

NOTE: I might have the 16th and 89th reversed as I have different names for the locations. Will double check that info when I get a moment.

EDIT: confirmed

zardof wrote:

franco wrote:

zardof wrote:for my knowledge there are 5 ZRP under 9 AD Division

49th ZRP 12 A-135 Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E
16th ZRP 16 A135 Lytkarino 55°34′39.04″N 37°46′17.67″E
50th ZRP 12 A-135 Korolev 55°52′41.09″N 37°53′36.50″E
89th ZRP 16 A-135 Skhodnya 55°54′04.11″N 37°18′28.30″E
15th ZRP 12 A-135 Vnukovo 55°37′32.45″N 37°23′22.41″E

plus
482nd RTP radar reg Don-2N Sofrino 56°10′51.97″N 37°47′16.81″E

of course these systems are connected with all the other radar Voronezh-DM, DON, others RTP ....  making a network.

I nether heard about names of A-135 ZRP.... Who is clever than me ?
The A-235 has been test already and is supposed to replace the older one till 2017 ? I missed info again ?

NOTE: I might have the 16th and 89th reversed as I have different names for the locations. Will double check that info when I get a moment.

EDIT: confirmed

Many thanks Franco you are the best

George1 wrote:53T6M site at Oboldino (CIA code B-02) still shows some construction work.
Similiar to that which happened to all 53T6 sites around Moscow and probably in conjunction with the introduction of 53T6M. Two of the new 77Yu6.02 emplacement vehicles are visible next to the silos

Hole wrote:Expand it to other citys!

Evaporate the warhead: the three secrets of the A-135 Amur missile defense system

25 years ago, the missile defense system of Moscow and the Central Industrial Region A-135 Amur was adopted. This is a unique weapon: both in tasks and in capabilities - a kind of nuclear "umbrella" over the capital. Moreover, it is doubly nuclear. Firstly, Amur protects Moscow from ballistic missile warheads - and, as you know, they are not filled with foam rubber. Secondly, nuclear weapons are also used to neutralize them, but differently.



We will make a reservation right away: A-135 is one of the most classified combat systems in the country, officially (that is, from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation) it is known that it exists, is on combat duty and is being modernized in parallel. All other information is obtained from open sources.

The appearance of Amur is associated with an interesting diplomatic conflict. By 1970, the USSR and the United States had accumulated enough nuclear warheads to destroy each other and the rest of the world several times in addition, and therefore took up defense against enemy missiles. However, it turned out that missile defense paradoxically increases the risk of nuclear war. A country with missile defense has an incentive to deliver a preemptive strike to the enemy’s nuclear arsenal - the less it can launch missiles in response, the higher the effectiveness of missile defense. In addition, missile interception systems undermine the doctrine of guaranteed mutual destruction - namely, it is the main brake on the Third World War.

As a result, Moscow and Washington concluded an agreement on limiting missile defense systems. Each of the countries received the right to deploy missile defense in one position area with a radius of 150 kilometers. The Soviet Union covered Moscow, the United States - the starting position of its ICBMs in North Dakota. For the creators of the A-135, the contract created a lot of problems, since the already existing project of the system had to be severely curtailed, fitting to international agreements. And the USA in 20 years left the contract.

Eye of Moscow

Aircraft approaching Sheremetyevo from the northeast make a detour around the village of Sofrino. If you are lucky, you can see a giant truncated pyramid with white circles on the side faces among the forests near Moscow. This is the Don-2N radar station, the eyes and the A-135 brain. They fly around it not only for reasons of secrecy - the total power of the station's emitters is 250 megawatts. White circles on the edges are receiving antennas with a diameter of 18 meters. Next to them are square transmitters - not so noticeable, but they are the ones that emit megawatts. Four pairs of antennas provide all-round visibility.


In addition to simple observation of the sky, Don carries out a search for potential targets, their classification, calculation of the trajectory and guidance of anti-missiles. Antennas made using AFAR technology can accompany up to 100 targets simultaneously. Moreover, the giant radar, if necessary, is able to perform all this work in a fully automatic mode. The detection range of the warhead of ICBMs is 3,700 kilometers. The sensitivity of the Soviet radar has become legendary: Don is the only terrestrial radar in space to find a ball the size of a tennis ball launched from the Discovery shuttle and build its trajectory.

Arrows of Cupid

Initially, the A-135 was equipped with long and short range interceptors with nuclear warheads. In 2006, 51T6 long-range interceptors were withdrawn from service. They are being replaced by a new long-range missile defense. All that is known about her is that she is the fastest in the world. Short-range interceptors - in missile defense this is a height of up to 100 kilometers, are called 53T6. A 10-meter cone weighing 10 tons starts with 100-fold acceleration and can withstand overloads up to 210 g. The on-board electrical network is wrapped in a casing; the nuclear warhead is covered by a heat-resistant ceramic fairing.

Amur uses nuclear weapons not only to destroy, but also to detect targets. Separated from a ballistic missile, its warheads immediately hide in a cloud of false targets. In the atmosphere, such camouflage does not work — heavy warheads immediately overtake weightless dipole reflectors — and so-called “nuclear explosion bias” is used to highlight real targets in near-Earth space. Simply put, even if the first missile does not hit the target, the operation of its warhead changes the trajectories of all objects nearby. Light false targets scatter like poplar fluff, heavy warheads shift slightly.

Amur’s nuclear filling is distinguished from other warheads by an additional block with a beryllium isotope. The result of a chain reaction is the release of a stream of fast neutrons that are detrimental to enemy missiles. Passing through the plutonium of their warheads, neutrons cause a premature chain reaction without reaching a critical mass. In the USA, this phenomenon was called the "pop effect" - a megaton-class warhead explodes like a cracker on a children's party. In addition, the work of neutron weapons is accompanied by soft, but powerful x-ray radiation - it instantly vaporizes the shell of an enemy’s charge, spraying it in the atmosphere.

https://rg.ru/2020/02/17/isparit-boegolovku-tri-sekreta-sistemy-pro-a-135-amur.html

Russian missile defense brain counts 10,000 times faster


The don-2N multifunctional radar, the Central and most complex element of the Russian missile DEFENSE system, has been upgraded and is being prepared for testing. The performance of the computer system has increased by four orders of magnitude, and its size has been reduced fourfold.

- Modernization of the receiving and transmitting parts of the don-2N radar is being completed, installation and adjustment of new equipment continues.The works on manufacturing and installation of the upgraded command and computing center have been completed, " he said."Red star" commander of the ballistic missile defence the General-the major Sergey Grabchak.

The don command center operates on a new computing system, Elbrus-90S, with a capacity of about 100 billion operations per second. According to open sources, the former Elbrus-2, which occupied an entire floor in the cyclopean radar building, could perform no more than 12.5 million operations.

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