Russian Artillery Hit Ukrainian US-Made Counter-Battery Radar (Video)
An AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder Radar in Serbia, 1996. By the US Air Force. Source: http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/systems/dvic595.htm
A radar that was supplied by the US to the Ukrainian military to help it detect artillery positions in Donbass was hit by a Russian artillery strike.
On March 20, footage of the damaged radar, a US-made AN/TPQ-36, in an unspecified location in Ukraine emerged online. The footage shows a several Russian artillery shells landing just a few meters away from the radar.
Russian artillery destroyed an American AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder counter-battery control system belonging to the Ukrainian army. pic.twitter.com/k0AfSipIJy
— Егор (@aleksandrov_76) March 20, 2022
The AN/TPQ-36 is an artillery, rocket and mortar locating radar. The system electronically, scans the horizon over a 90° sector several times a second, intercepting and automatically tracking hostile projectiles, then computing back along the trajectory to the origin.
The X-band radar has a maximum range of24 kilometers with effective range of 18 kilometers for artillery shells and 24 kilometers for rockets.
Starting from 2014, the US supplied Ukraine with 13 AN/TPQ-36 radars to support its war efforts in the Donbass region.
The US also donated at least 20 AN/TPQ-48 counter-battery radars to the Ukrainian military. The remains of one such system were captured by armed forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic just a few days ago.
The Russian artillery have inflicted some heavy losses on Ukrainian forces since the beginning of the special military operation in the country. The counter-battery radar systems supplied by the US failed to give the Ukrainian artillery any real advantage in the battlefield.
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