Russian artillery units of Southern Military district equipped with new artillery radar Aistenok

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Russian artillery units of Southern Military district equipped with new artillery radar Aistenok
The Russian artillery units of Southern Military District are equipped with first batch of new radar intelligence systems “Aistenok”, the press service of Southern Military District said on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
     
The Russian artillery units of Southern Military District are equipped with first batch of new radar intelligence systems “Aistenok”, the press service of Southern Military District said on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.Portable mortar position reconnaissance radar Aistenok
     
The “Aistenok” mobile radar system is designed to carry out surveillance of mortar firing positions and to monitor 81–120 mm mortar fire along the mortar shell flight trajectory; to survey tank type moving surface targets and monitor 122–155 mm artillery fire by shell explosions.

“The complex “Aistenok” detects ground targets such as” tank “in the range from 200 m to 20 km. The maximum detection range is achieved in the presence of radar visibility. In this case, it provides detection of tanks moving at speeds from 2.5 to 60 km/h, with a probability of at least 0.8,” the press service said.
Total weight of “Aistenok” is 135 kilos, it is equipped with a color display and the radio station. The assembly of the complex needs just 5 minutes, the Southern Military District highlighted.

According the website UkrStream.TV, the radar “Aistenok”is used by the Pro-Russian troops in Ukraine.