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Russia to install Krokus missile attack warning system for Kazakhstan in 2020

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Russia to install missile attack warning system for Kazakhstan in 2020

22 JUL

Russia will install the Krokus warning system in Kazakhstan in 2020 to fulfil its commitments of providing the republic with information on a missile attack, Russian Space Force Commander Colonel-General Alexander Golovko said on Wednesday.

"Our commitments stipulate providing them [Kazakhstan] with information on a missile attack. We will carry it through this year… There is the Krokus warning system and precisely this system for Kazakhstan will be installed this year," the general said during a session of the International Affairs Committee in the upper house of Russia’s parliament.

Before the summer of 2020, the Balkhash radar center in Kazakhstan functioned in the Russian missile attack warning system. It provided the radar field for missile attack warning in the southern strategic aerospace direction. The radar in Kazakhstan was withdrawn from its combat alert on June 1 this year. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov said on July 21 that the need for this radar had completely disappeared after four advanced radars were deployed on Russian territory.

The State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliament) adopted a bill on Tuesday on terminating an agreement with Kazakhstan on the terms of the transfer and the procedure for the further use of the Balkhash station on the territory of Kazakhstan in the Russian missile attack warning system.

https://tass.com/defense/1181341
 
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'On 28 March 1994 Kazakhstan signed a military treaty with Russia...'

'Article 19: The contracting parties will retain the existing network of all types of communications, air defence, antiballistic missile defence, and early warning systems and supply lines and will agree on measures for their development.'


Source:
https://www.diis.dk/files/media/publications/import/extra/rp2012-15-kazakhstan-russia_web.pdf
(page 45 / 46)

So, I do not think that the installation of the missile warning system is because of an certain external threat, but merely because of fulfilling the obligations of the treaty.
 
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