| Became Operational | 1940 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Used on CL Molotov |
| Purpose | Air Warning |
| Wavelength | 4 meters |
| Power Output | 50 KW |
| Range | 64.8 nm |
First Soviet ship-based radar system. Modification of the RUS-2 land radar.
| Became Operational | 1944 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Not accepted for production. |
| Purpose | Air Warning |
| Wavelength | 1.4 meters |
| Power Output | 80 KW |
| Range | 25 nm |
| Remarks | First in the series of Gyuis air detection radars used on Soviet ships after World War II. The prototype was trialed on the destroyer Gromkii and used on it until the end of the war. |
| Became Operational | 1944 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Installed on several destroyers |
| Purpose | Air Warning |
| Wavelength | 1.4 meters |
| Power Output | 80 KW |
| Range | 25 nm |
| Remarks | Used until the end of the war, but not accepted into production. |
| Became Operational | 1945 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Used on Pr. 30K destroyers after the war |
| Purpose | Air Warning |
| Wavelength | N/A |
| Power Output | N/A |
| Range | about 16 nm air / about 6.5 nm surface |
| Remarks | Trialed on destroyer Strogyi at the end of 1944. |
| Became Operational | 1945-6 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Used on many post war Soviet warships |
| Purpose | Air and Surface Search |
| Wavelength | N/A |
| Power Output | N/A |
| Range | 28.6 against aircraft / 10.25 Surface |
| Remarks | Tested on the DD Ognevoy in Oct-Nov 1945. |
| Became Operational | 1945-6 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Used on many post war Soviet warships |
| Purpose | Cruiser Main Caliber Fire-Control |
| Wavelength | N/A |
| Power Output | N/A |
| Range | 9.75 nm |
| Remarks | Developed in 1945. Tested in July-August 1945 on the Cruiser Molotov. Test went satisfactory and the system was accepted in service as Redan-1. |
| Became Operational | 1945-6 |
|---|---|
| War Status | Used on many post war Soviet warships |
| Purpose | Destroyer Main Caliber Fire-Control |
| Wavelength | N/A |
| Power Output | N/A |
| Range | 9.75 nm |
| Remarks | Developed in 1945 simultaneously with Mars-1. Tested in 1945 on the DD Ognevoy. Test went satisfactory and the system was accepted in service as Redan-2. |
Most of the radars used by the Soviet Navy during World War II were from Lend-Lease. The first Lend-Lease radars started to arrive in the USSR in 1942 and by the end of the war most of the large warships were equipped by some sort of radar.
Type 271
Used on Lend-Lease Destroyers.
Type 281
Used on most Battleships and Cruisers.
Type 281
Used on most Kirov and Maxim Gorky class light cruisers.
Type 284
Used on some cruisers and destroyers.
Type 285
Used on some Kirov and Maxim Gorky class light cruisers.
Type 286
Used on board some Soviet and Lend-Lease destroyers, submarine L-15 and the patrol ship Smerch.
Type 291
Most widely used radar in the Soviet Navy. Used on most of the destroyers and patrol ships as well as some gunboats and Lend-Lease submarines.
SG
Used on the Pacific Fleet Maxim Gorky class light cruisers and on Lend-Lease light cruiser Murmansk (ex-USS Milwaukee CL-5).
SF-1
Used on Leningrad and Baku class DLs and large subchasers of BO-2 class received through Lend-Lease.
SL
Used on some minesweepers.
SO-13
Used on most of the Lend-Lease MTBs and many of the small Soviet ships.
SK
Used on Lend-Lease cruiser Murmansk.
FC (Mark 3)
Used, but on which ships is unknown.
- "Razvitie Sovetskoy Radiolokatsionnoy Tekhniki" (Development of the Soviet Radar Technology) by M.M. Lobanov
- "Sovetskie Boevye Korabli 1941-45: IV Vooruzhnie" (Soviet Warships 1941-45 Volume IV Armament) by A.V. Platonov
February 2002 issue of Taifun Magazine Magazine
Special help from Vladimir Yakubov.