Radar "Sobolyatnik"The commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky, who, perhaps, is well acquainted with the real situation in the special operation zone, shared good news. In his Telegram channel, Khodakovsky said that he recently met with a Marine brigade fighter who asked to flash the software of a rather expensive and highly efficient copter. When asked where he got it, the Marine replied:
In particular, we are talking about technical means of reconnaissance and correction of artillery fire, known as the "Sobolyatnik" and "Aistenok" complexes. Surprisingly, these very effective and so necessary systems at the front were developed by our gunsmiths a few years ago. But for some reason, the soldiers on the front line began to arrive only now. As Khodakovsky wrote, only now "Sobolyatnik" and "Aistenok", whose names he had not heard before, "are being extracted from the special storage and mobilized to the front."
The 1L271 "Aistenok" portable radar reconnaissance and fire control system is designed to equip units of the "company-battalion" level and is capable of performing tasks related to the detection of various objects both on the ground and in the air. For the first time, the complex developed by NPO Strela (part of the Almaz-Antey concern) was presented during the MVSM-2008 exhibition in August 2008. The main tasks of the Aistenok radar are tracking the work of their own and enemy artillery, detecting enemy targets, including moving ones, correcting fire at any time of the day, regardless of weather conditions.
Aistenok radar stationModern short-range reconnaissance stations "Fara" and radar stations "Sobolyatnik" first entered service with the special forces of the Southern Military District in January of this year, although their serial production was established by the same NGO "Strela" in early 2021. The main task of the portable radar "Sobolyatnik" is to monitor the actions of its troops and the enemy with the detection of firing from various artillery systems, both barrel and jet.
It turns out that numerous conversations that our defense industry is not able to provide the army with modern technical means are not true? And how many more such necessary and advanced complexes are in warehouses just because someone from the rear is afraid to take responsibility and send expensive, but very necessary equipment to the front line?
— the combatant of the "East" sums up with some bitter irony.
It is possible that these shifts in supply in the army are related to the recent personnel reshuffles in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. I would very much like such news from the frontline to become not random events, but a stable trend.
