The Daryal-U radar in Mishelevka (sometimes referred to as a Pechora type radar in Irkutsk) was demolished by an explosion on June 23, 2011. Here is the video of the blast (thanks to AC for the link):
This looks like the receiver building. No word on what happened to the transmitter (which is in a separate building), but it would be safe to assume that it was demolished as well.
Construction of the Daryal-U radar in Mishelevka began in the early 1980s. It was supposed to be part of a network of Daryal radars, but the network was never completed because of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Only two Daryal radars - in Pechora and Gabala - were brought into operation. Here is how the network was supposed to look like (the drawing is from my old article on Russian early-warning system):
Daryal-UM in Skrunda, Latvia was demolished in May 1995. Construction of Daryal-UM in Mukachevo, Ukraine was stopped in 1991 before any radar equipment was brought to the site. Daryal-U in Balkhash, Kazakhstan, was almost completed, but the radar never became operational. It was shut down in the early 1990s and eventually burned down in September 2004 (it was a quite spectacular fire, as you could see yourself). There was, of course, a plan to build a Daryal radar in Yeniseysk/Krasnoyarsk, but it did not go well.
At this point, two older Dnepr radars continue to work at the Mishelevka site. To replace them, Russia is building two new Voronezh-M radars there. These new radars would become part of the new network that is supposed to provide complete coverage of all approaches to Russia. Assuming, of course, that nothing like a breakup of the country gets in the way.
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Hi.
I'm researching the radars for wikipedia and I wanted to say something about your Early Warning article (linked to here as new network).
I think you've included radars that are no longer functional, but I'm confused about the dnepr/dnestr-m. I think you are counting one V with a control centre in the middle as two radars. Also when people call the Vs dnepr/dnestr-m are they saying that they do not know whether it is a dnepr or a dnestr-m, or are they saying that it is both?
You are saying that there are three working radars at Michelevka - 1 dnestr and 2 dnepr/dnestr-m. Looking at aerial photography I only see two that are not ruined - 1 straight array and one V. I think you must be counting the V as two.
At Balkhash I think only the dnepr V is functional. All the others look ruined.
It looks like the Sevastopol radar is in a state of disrepair. http://www.panoramio.com/photo/46418707
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All radars are listed in the table here - http://russianforces.org/sprn/ - along with their operational status (I'll have to update Balkhash, though). The figure above shows how the Daryal network was intended to look like - it was never completed.
Re Dnepr/Dnestr-M, Dnepr is an upgrade of the older Dnestr/Dnestr-M radar. The new radar used the same building and probably some of the electronics of the old one. They are all listed as Dnepr/Dnestr-M to indicate the continuity, but they are all Dneprs now.
On Balkhash and Mishelevka - yes, I count radar faces. The space-surveillance radar in Balkhash does not seem to be operational anymore, so it's just two Dnepr faces there. I'll update the main table.
I don't know what the status of the Sevastopol radar is - it may still be able to operate from time to time. Russia stopped using its information a while ago and I'm not sure Ukraine has any useful mission for it.
UPDATE: I updated the tables.