NEW PHASED-ARRAY RADAR AT PECHORA

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 27, 1976
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT: New Phased-Array Radar at Pechora
1. The Soviets are building a new type
phased-array radar facility near Pechora in the
north central USSR. This radar appears to be in-
tended to complement the ballistic missile early
warning coverage provided by the Hen House radars
and another new phased-array radar being built
at Olenegorsk.
2. The Pechora radar facility has a large
antenna about 340 feet wide and 260 feet high. There
is a large control building about 2,500 feet from
the large antenna. The location of this building
suggests that it will have a smaller antenna asso-
ciated with it. If so, the radar would be the
bistatic type, which would give it much better
tracking, prediction, and target-handling capabili-
ties than the Hen House radars.
3. The Soviets started building the facility
near Pechora in 1974, but construction progressed
slowly until this year. in
February 1976, the large antenna was in the early
stages of construction and little work had been
done on the control building. By August, the
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antenna appeared to be nearly complete, and the
control building was in a mid-stage of construction.
Although the pace of construction appears to be
picking up, this unique radar facility probably will
not be operational before 1979.
4. The radar at Pechora is different than the
phased-array radar being built at Olenegorsk. The
Olenegorsk facility contains only one radar antenna,
which is only about 150 feet high, and the control
building is directly behind the radar antenna. Also,
the Olenegorsk radar is being built near a Hen House
radar, while there is no other early warning radar
near the Pechora facility.
6. The construction of additional ballistic
missile early warning radars is not prohibited by
the ABM treaty, provided they are located on the
periphery and oriented outwards--as the Pechora radar
is. The treaty does, however, bar the construction
of any additional ABM battle management radars except
at Moscow or at an ICBM complex.
7. The potential capabilities of the new large
phased-array radar antennas at Olenegorsk and Pechora
raise the possibility that they could be used to
perform ABM battle management rather than early
warning. The radars would add nothing to the current
capabilities of the Moscow ABM system, however, and
we see no signs to suggest that the Soviets intend
to deploy ABM interceptor missiles outside the Moscow
area.
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SUBJECT: New Phased-Array Radar at Pechora
DISTRIBUTION:
Cy 1-2 - Dr. H. Kissinger (Chairman, NSC Verification Panel)
3 - Secretary of Defense
4 - Asst. to President for National Security Affairs
(LTGEN Scowcroft)
5 - Dep. Sec/Defense (Clements)
6 - Dep. Sec/Defense (Ellsworth)
7 - Dep. Sec/State (Robinson)
8 - Chairman, JCS (Gen. Brown)
9 - Director, ACDA (Mr. Ikle)
10 - Director, DIA (LTGEN Wilson)
11 - Director, INR/State (Mr. Saunders)
12 - US SCC Commissioner (Mr. Graybeal_)
13 - Gen. L. Faurer (DIA)
14 - Mr. W. Hyland (NSC Staff)
15 - Mr. J. Marcum (NSC Staff)
16 - B/GEN Frank Serio (JCS)
17 - Dr. H. Sauerwein (OSD)
18 - Dr. J. Timbie (ACDA)
19 Mr. L. Finch (State)
20 - Mr. L. Fuerth (State)
21 - DCI
22 DDCI
23 - Executive Registry
24-25 - DDI
26 - L. Dirks (DDS&T)
27 - N. Firth (AD/OSR)
28 - E. IIineman (D/OWI)
29 - H. Stoertz (NIO/SP)
30 - (NIO/USSR)
31 - F (SF/A/SR)
3? - G. Allen (D/IAS)
3 - OSR)
34 - I VOWI )
35 - Chief, SALT Suppnrf 1aff
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