page_title: Balkhash Radar Station
hierarchical_section_title: Balkhash Radar Station
caption_attribution_description: English: Public domain aerial photography of Balkhash-9 radar station in Kazakhstan. Photography is from the i-cubed landsat layer of NASA's World Wind. Visible are the receiver and transmitter buildings of the Daryal radar, 4 demolished Dnestr radars and one functional Dnepr radar. The Dnepr is in the lower right corner of the land, it is the V-shaped object near the lakeshore. The remains of the original two Dnestr's (number 1 and 2) are arranged in a vertical line just to the left and above the Dnepr. These remain easily visible in this image. The townsite of Balkhash-9 is just to the right of these radars. The second pair of Dnestr's was built just above the originals. These are less visible in this photograph, running on an angle starting just above the upper radar of the original pair. The middle of one of them is just above the upper right tip of the dried-out portion of the pond, the second is visible at the very top of the image. The Daryal's receiver is the large white building just left of center, located between the lakeshore and the pond. Its transmitter is somewhat less visible in the very lower left corner of the image.
context_page_description: Balkhash Radar Station is the site of two generations of Soviet and Russian early warning radars. It is located on the west coast of Lake Balkhash near Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. Although it was used for monitoring satellites in low Earth orbit it was mainly a key part of the Russian system of warning against missile attack. It provided coverage of western and central China, India, Pakistan and submarine missile launches in the Bay of Bengal. There have been six radars at this site, although only one was operational in 2012, and it was run by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.
  The military town for the station is called Balkhash-9. The station is 13 kilometres east of the village of Gulshat in Karagandy Province and 90 kilometres north east of Priozersk, the main town for Sary Shagan.
context_section_description: Balkhash Radar Station (also described as Sary Shagan radar node and Balkhash-9) is the site of two generations of Soviet and Russian early warning radars. It is located on the west coast of  Lake Balkhash near Sary Shagan test site in Kazakhstan. Although it was used for monitoring satellites in low Earth orbit it was mainly a key part of the Russian system of warning against missile attack. It provided coverage of western and central China, India, Pakistan and submarine missile launches in the Bay of Bengal. There have been six radars at this site, although only one was operational in 2012, and it was run by the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.
  The military town for the station is called Balkhash-9 (Russian: Балхаш-9). The station is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) east of the village of Gulshat in Karagandy Province and 90 kilometres (56 mi) north east of Priozersk, the main town for Sary Shagan.
caption: An image of the site from landsat. The Dnepr radar is a V bottom right and the Daryal radar bottom left.
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