Aside from veryfying the information obtained form the American diplomats, the complex will allow detect new types of american intercontinental missiles and define their parameters.

 It has also been reported that the Research and Science Center of information collection and control # 281 located in archangelsk region in the Russia’s north, is set to expand its capabilities of controlling the proper fulfillment of the Russia ¡ª US START treaties by 2015.

 The features of the new observation complex presented under the title Prisnak (Feature) are listed in the Defense Ministry documentation. The new development will allow compare remote measuring provded by the US with the recording of signals detected by the national control systems – radiolocation satellites, ships carrying ballistic missile-detecting antennae. The START-3 provides that the two parties exchange telemetric data on five rocket launches.

 Victor murakhovsky, a military expert, editor-in-chief of the Fatherland Arsenal magazine, said that, in the frameowrk of the START-3 the countries are cooperating on the disarmament issue in two directions, «First of al, this is a voluntary exchange of the technical parameters, nor all of them, just a limited list. Also, both parties employ national controlling technologies, that is, radiolocation stations, warning systems, space satellites of radio and electrooptical tracking systems.»

 Accosring to Izvestia, the Priznak complex will be completed by December 2015, the work is performed by a Saint-Petersburg science and research center, and the cost of the project is said to be over $1.5 mln.

 Voice of Russia, RT, Izvestia
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