Voyennaya Priyemka about Early Warning:

As usual, awesome footage, sad narration.
Nice explanation of Irkutsk Voronezh-M sectors: "Chukotka-Alaska and China ("due to understandable considerations"). Peculiar detail: blurred India:) ImageImageImageImage
Misc stills ImageImageImageImage
And just in case someone has doubts, Space layer detection of ballistic missile launch leads to notification to the system as a whole, while the military-political leadership gets alarmed only when the ground-based layer detects the incoming missile.
BTW, the narrator mentions that according to international agreements countries notify "interested parties" about missile launches, but some countries do not deliver notifications, so EW people are always busy.

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Interview with SPRN com. Col.A.Revenok: redstar.ru/preduprezhdyon…

Plans for ground echelon:
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Space echelon: EKS to be completed by 2024.

There is information integration and sharing between EW, MD and Space Control systems.
Detection:
EKS controls possible launch regions in the Northern Hemisphere by HEO satellites which detect the launch flame from ~40000 km; data from sat is transmitted to ground control post, which, after validation, sends data to EW ("ATTENTION") and MD ("ALARM").
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"This Protocol shall be temporarily applied from December 15, 2020 and shall enter into force on the day of receipt through diplomatic channels of the last written notification of the implementation by the Parties of the domestic procedures necessary for its entry into force."
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Brief estimation give around 2000-3000 depending on the state of legacy systems, assumptions on number of spare missiles and production capacities. About half of that might be available for first salvo. ~55% are air, with slightly less than 30% ground, what remains - sea.

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#hyperhype
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