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The A-135 (NATO: ABM-3) anti-ballistic missile system is a Russian army complex set up around Moscow to counter opponent rockets targeting the city or its regarding locations. It became operational during 1995, being a successor to the previous A-35, and compliant with the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty from which the United States unilaterally withdrew in 2002.
The A-135 system attained "sharp" (operational) condition on February 17, 1995. It is currently functional although its 51T6 (NATO reporting name: SH-11) part is shut off (since February 2007). A more recent rocket is expected to change it. There is an operational test variation of the system at the examination site in Sary Shagan, Kazakhstan.
The system is run by the 9th Division of Anti-Missile Defence, component of the Air Defence and Missile Defence Command of the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces.
A-135 includes the Don-2N fight management radar and two kinds of ABM missiles. It gets its information from the bigger Russian early warning system which is sent out to the command centre which then forwards tracking information to the Don-2N radar.
The Don-2N radar (NATO: 'Pill Box') is a big battle-management phased-array radar with 360 ° coverage. Tests were taken on at the prototype Don-2NP in Sary Shagan in 2007 to upgrade its software application. The ABM-3 phased-array short-range fight administration radar, changing the 'Try Add' radars. 68 launchers of short-range 53T6 (NATO: SH-08 'Gazelle') endoatmospheric interceptor missiles at five launch sites with 12 or 16 rockets each, though created initially with nuclear warheads. Designed by NPO Novator, just like US Sprint rocket. These are tested roughly every year at the Sary Shagan test website. Previously 16 launchers of long-range 51T6 (NATO: SH-11 'Gorgon') exoatmospheric interceptor rockets at two launch websites with eight rockets each, initially made with nuclear warheads.
A memo from the archives of Vitalii Leonidovich Kataev, created circa 1985, had actually envisaged that the system "will be completed in 1987 to offer defense from a strike of 1-2 modern and potential ICBMs and up to 35 Pershing 2-type intermediate-range missiles.".