What is GISS?

3.6 Control of border economic zones of user countries

The protection of coastal economic zones is a matter of special concern and requires no small cost for each country. Since we are Russians, we are closer to the problems of the Russian Federation, which we will consider as an example.

The total length of the state border of Russia is 60,932 km, including the land border (on the mainland) – 22,125 km (of which river and lake – 7616 km, the land itself – 14,509 km), and the sea – 38,807 km. At the same time, there are many problems with protecting the 200-mile coastal economic zone, and this is a particularly costly part (see slides in Fig. 3.15 and Fig. 3.16).

The calculation of the order of forces and means of the Coast Guard of the FSS was made back in the USSR, on the basis of the radar control range of the border ship of about 15 miles, the size of the borders and the need for their constant monitoring.

The creation of a GISS, which ensures almost continuous control for these purposes not only of its economic zone, but even the exit of fishing and smuggling vessels from their own and ports of neighboring countries, will significantly reduce these costs.

The Center of the Border Guard Service (Coast Guard) can be connected by a fiber-optic communication line (FOCL) with the nearest regional center (GRPS) of the GISS on the territory of the Russian Federation and provide it with access to the archive of the database of received reflected and sounding signals of radar monitoring. This will ensure their independent work to control all borders and economic zones.

It is enough to send a high-speed boat on the issued command to detain illegal fishers of sea stocks, than to waste resources and keep so many ships of the FSS Coast Guard afloat. Humanly sorry for the Chinese and Korean fishermen, they are poor and want to eat, but their fish has long been caught and eaten. It is much more a pity for the budgetary funds required for the restoration of about 140 outdated patrol ships and the maintenance of their crews.