Russian air surveillance radars
Summary

Russian air surveillance radars

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Radar	NATO reporting name	Radio spectrum (NATO)	Developed	Fun fact	Design bureau

P-3	VHF	1948	The first Soviet post-World War II air surveillance radar	NNIIRT

P-20 Periscope	E/F-band	1949	NIIDAR

P-50 Observatory	1949	Stationary variant of P-20	NIIDAR

P-30	BIG MESH	E/F-band	1955	NIIDAR

P-30M	1959	NIIDAR

P-35	BAR LOCK	E/F-band	1958	NIIDAR

P-8 Volga	KNIFE REST A	VHF	1950	The first Soviet radar with circular scan	NNIIRT

P-10 Volga A	KNIFE REST B	VHF	1953	Frequency hopping	NNIIRT

P-12 Yenisei	SPOON REST	VHF	1955	Coherent radar with MTI	NNIIRT

P-15 Tropa	FLAT FACE A	UHF	1955	VNIIRT

P-14 Lena	TALL KING	VHF	1959	NNIIRT

P-35M	BAR LOCK	E/F-band	1961	Improved antenna layout	NIIDAR

P-70 Lena-M	VHF	1968	First Soviet radar with chirp	NNIIRT

P-18 Terek	SPOON REST D	VHF	1970	NNIIRT

ST-68	TIN SHIELD	E-band	1970	First Soviet radar with digital coherent signal processing	VNIIRT

Sword-35	BAR LOCK	E/F-band	1971	faster scanning, improved antenna, polarization filters, pulse duration/frequency modulation	NIIDAR

5N84A Oborona-14	TALL KING C	VHF	1974	NNIIRT

P-19 Danube	FLAT FACE B	UHF	1974	VNIIRT

5N69 Salute	BIG BACK	D-band	1975	First Soviet 3D-radar	NNIIRT

44ZH6	TALL KING B	VHF	1979	Stationary version of Oborona-14	NNIIRT

55ZH6 Nebo	TALL RACK	VHF	1982	First Soviet meter-wavelength 3D-radar	NNIIRT

1L13	1982	NNIIRT

52E6	VHF	1982-1996	NNIIRT

1L13-3 Nebo-SV	BOX SPRING	VHF	1985	NNIIRT

55ZH6U Nebo-U	TALL RACK	VHF	1992	NNIRT

1L119 Nebo-SVU	VHF	1997-2006	NNIIRT

59N6-1 Protivnik-G1	D-band	1997	Average time between failures 840 hours	NNIIRT

1L122	D-band	1997-2006	NNIIRT

52E6MU	VHF	1997-2006	NNIIRT

P-18 modernisation kits	SPOON REST D	VHF	1997-2006	NNIIRT

55ZH6M Nebo-M	VHF/multi-band	2011	NNIIRT

59N6M	NNIRT

Podsolnukh-E	VHF	2000	over-the-horizon surface-wave radar	NIIDAR

29B6 Container radar	VHF	2000	Bi-static radar	NIIDAR

Sentence(s)

Innovations include the first Soviet air surveillance radar with a circular scan: the P-8 Volga (NATO: KNIFE REST A) in 1950, the first 3D radar: the 5N69 Salute (NATO: BIG BACK) in 1975, and in 1982 the first VHF-band 3D-radar: the 55Zh6 Nebo (NATO: TALL RACK).

final_sentence: Innovations include the first Soviet air surveillance radar with a circular scan: the P-8 Volga (NATO: KNIFE REST A) in 1950, the first 3D radar: the 5N69 Salute (NATO: BIG BACK) in 1975, and in 1982 the first VHF-band 3D-radar: the 55Zh6 Nebo (NATO: TALL RACK).