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
The Russian military has destroyed anther American-made AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder counter-battery radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on December 10.
The spokesman, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said during his daily press briefing that the counter-battery radar was destroyed on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, without elaborating.
The AN/TPQ-36 was developed to located the source of artillery, rocket and mortar fire. The radar 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 can detect and report the positions of up to ten different weapons in seconds, at a maximum range of 24 kilometers.
The United States supplied the AFU with at least two AN/TPQ-36 radars in 2015. After the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 of this year more radars were delivered. The Netherlands delivered five radars in March, while the United States supplied ten radars in April and three more in May.
The U.S. and its allies in the NATO have supplied Ukraine with many other counter-battery radars of different types. However, these radars had no real impact on the battlefield. Many of them have been already destroyed or damaged by Russian artillery fire.
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