Qabala Radar

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The radar station Qəbələ is a radar station in Azerbaijan. It is located near the town of the same name Qəbələ Rajon in the Greater Caucasus, 220 kilometers northwest of Baku.

The station was built in 1985 as part of the Soviet early warning system. Russia, they were rented by the year 2012 for seven million dollars from Azerbaijan. Thereafter, their task is to be taken over by a newly built radar station in the northern Caucasus. Russian President Vladimir Putin took her to the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm in 2007 as part of a joint missile defense project in Azerbaijan this week (see National Missile Defense).

The radar station Qəbələ monitored movements of satellites and rockets in a radius of 6,000 kilometers. According to the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Borisovich former Ivanov 2006 including the skies over Iran, Turkey, China, Pakistan, India, Iraq and large parts of Africa.

The station is located 40 kilometers south of the Russian border and about 150 kilometers north of the border with Iran. Their operation is controversial in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Environment considers the radiation emanating from it for a health risk.