Ukrainian forces have successfully destroyed a state-of-the-art Russian counter-fire radar system, the 1K148 “Yastreb-AV,” valued at approximately $250 million, just hours after its first deployment.
January 5, 2024

Russia's much-ballyhooed counterbattery radar system, designed to take out the American-made HIMARS systems arrived as a dud. Less than 12 hours after its first-ever deployment, it was destroyed....by a HIMARS attack. The $250 million system was located with drones that then relayed the precise coordinates to artillery units within the Ukrainian military.

Source: Forbes

On Tuesday morning, Russian media announced the deployment, to Ukraine, of Russian forces’ latest high-tech counterbattery radar. A few hours later in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainians blew it up ... with artillery rockets.

The irony deepens. In theory, a Russian Yastreb-AV radar would help to protect Russian troops from Ukraine’s American-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems launchers—its HIMARS. Now guess what the Ukrainians apparently used to destroy that first Yastreb-AV.

That’s right: HIMARS. Although to be clear, it also is possible they fired a guided howitzer round.

The Russian loss isn’t just funny. It’s important. Artillery counterbattery radars are more important by the day in Ukraine as the war settles into a grinding attritional fight.

As is their custom, Ukrainians added some Rammstein to the video of the event.

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