(Dan Tri) – British intelligence raised the new challenge that Russian artillery forces face in the conflict with Ukraine in the next phase of hostilities.
A Zoopark-1M counterattack radar of the Russian army (Photo: Eurasian Times).
According to intelligence reports from the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian military appears to have lost a number of Zoopark-1M counter-battery radar systems in recent times and this loss seems to be very difficult to compensate in the short term.
Artillery has become an important part of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Counter-fire radar is considered very important in a firepower confrontation, as it plays the role of a `magic eye` on the battlefield.
Counter-artillery requires fast speed because many artillery systems today have high mobility on the battlefield.
Both Russia and Ukraine have their own type of weapon for this activity, called counter-battery radar.
Last month, Ukraine released a video of destroying Russia’s Zoopark-1M counter-fire radar in the Donbass battlefield.
British intelligence said that Russia seems to have lost at least 6 Zoopark-1M complexes since the beginning of the war, and they only have a very limited number of these radars left in Ukraine.
He also said that Russia may have difficulty producing new systems to replace previous losses.
This is a big challenge in the context of the front line in the Russia-Ukraine war stretching thousands of kilometers and confrontations with artillery and firepower taking place in many areas.
Zoopark-1M is an anti-artillery radar complex developed by Russia’s Almaz-Antey defense industrial corporation and put into service by the Russian Army since 2007.
This weapon is designed and manufactured with the task of detecting firepower, tracking ballistics, determining the coordinates of enemy artillery batteries and indicating targets for artillery interception.
Mounted on the base chassis of the MTLB tracked armored vehicle, Zoopark-1M is capable of mobile movement and only takes about 5 minutes to deploy into combat.
With many modern electronic equipment, the Russian military’s state-of-the-art counter-battery radar can track more than 70 targets at the same time as well as change operating frequencies to deal with active and passive electronic jammers.
Normally, a Zoopark-1M counter-battery radar complex of the Russian army will include a radar station, a maintenance and logistics vehicle and a generator.