Russia Develops Stealthy Mobile Coastal Defense Radar

A Russian company has created a new stealthy mobile coastal defense radar that can strike targets 400 km away when armed with missiles.

On Wednesday, the Federal Intellectual Property Service published a patent obtained by Russia’s Salyut leading research and production enterprise for developing shipborne radar systems.

"This invention pertains to the sphere of radiolocation, in particular, to mobile coastal defense radar stations and can be employed to detect, track, apportion targets and provide target acquisition for naval and aerial objects, including small-size fast targets, within the direct visibility range and over the horizon under the conditions of radio wave propagation," Russian government-owned TASS reported, citing the document.

The invention will help bring Russian coastal radar stations to a qualitatively new level. The mobile coastal defense over-the-horizon radar with its stealth emissions will enable strike weapons furnished with missiles operational within a range of around 400 km to address the tasks of detecting naval targets at these ranges and issuing preliminary target acquisition data, according to the document.

The new radar features increased radar emission stealth capabilities, high jam resistance, a small blind zone (tens of meters) and a range of 500 km and more. The station is based on a phased array radar capable of altering the position of beams in space quickly and with high accuracy.

In order to accomplish assigned tasks, the radar is mounted on an off-road mobile wheeled platform with an electric power system and life support capabilities, which helps move and position the station in any place on the coast without preliminary positioning efforts.

"The components base helps create mobile coastal defense over-the-horizon radar stations at a lower cost compared to operational radars. Also, they do not require occupying vast coastal territories and engaging large personnel for operation," the patent says.