Ukrainian troops destroy Russian Zoopark-1 radar station
23 May, 2024 Russian 1L219 Zoopark-1 counter-battery radar in the sights of the Shark drone, May 2024. Photo credits: Come Back Alive Foundation The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Zoopark-1 counter-battery radar system in the Donetsk region.
The press service of the Come Back Alive Foundation reported on this. An aerial reconnaissance unit detected a Russian Zoopark-1 radar station using a Shark reconnaissance drone purchased by the Foundation. After identifying the target, the unit transmitted the coordinates of the detected object to the operators of the HIMARS rocket system, which delivered an accurate strike and destroyed the radar station with a GMLRS guided missile.
It was possible to geolocate the site of the Russian counter-battery radar system (here) in the southwest of the village of Vidrodzhennia in the Donetsk region. The Russian Zoopark-1 radar station was located 16 kilometers from the contact line and was looking for working Ukrainian artillery to further target it.
Site of defeat of Russian Zoopark-1 counter-battery radar system
Radar stations of this class are a valuable and limited resource in the armed forces of the Russian invaders.
The loss of one of them should simplify the work of Ukrainian artillery in this sector. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Oryx project has reliably documented the loss of 16 Zoopark-1 radar stations of various modifications.
Zoopark-1 counter-battery radar
1L219M Zoopark-1 is a Russian reconnaissance and fire control radar. It is designed for reconnaissance and fire detection of ground artillery systems, such as tubed artillery and MLRS.
The radar determines the positions of the enemy artillery, as well as detects the trajectory of the flight of various ammunition during firing. The radar can also be used to adjust their own artillery fire. The radar is mounted on the chassis of the MT-LB multi-purpose tracked platform.
It is a system with a mobile passive electronically scanned array radar that is capable of detecting up to 70 positions per minute and simultaneously tracking up to 4 targets.
Russian Zoopark-1 counter-battery radar.
Photo from open sources
According to the manufacturer, the counter-battery radar can detect the positions of 120mm mortars at a distance of 17 kilometers, 105mm and 155mm howitzers - up to 12 kilometers, and the fire of multiple launch rocket systems such as BM-21 Grad and BM-27 Uragan - at a distance of 40-45 kilometers.