Don-2N radar
The Don-2N radar is a large missile defense and early warning passive electronically scanned array radar outside Moscow, and a key part of the Russian A-135 anti-ballistic missile system designed for the defense of the capital against ballistic missiles. Located in the Pushkino district of Moscow it is a quadrangular frustum tall with sides long at the bottom, and long at the top. Each of its four faces has an diameter Ultra high frequency band radar giving 360 degree coverage. The system is run by an Elbrus-2 supercomputer.
It has a range of 3,700 km for targets the size of a typical ICBM warhead.
Under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty both the United States and the Soviet Union had to designate one area to protect from missile attack. The USA chose North Dakota and the Soviet Union chose Moscow. The Don-2N radar is designed to be the control centre of the system and can operate autonomously if connection is lost to its command and control centre.
The 1998 SIOP targeted this radar facility with 69 consecutive nuclear weapons.The prototype Don radar, called Don-2NP is in Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan, location.
