RUS-1

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RUS-1 "Reven"

RUS-1 receiving system
RUS-1 receiving system
General data
Type Radio measuring station based on the continuous wave principle
country Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union
Commissioning 1939
Units produced 45
Technical specifications
Frequency band 75-83 MHz
Max. Range 35 km
Top performance 300 W
RUS-1 transmitter

The RUS-1 ("Reven") ( Russian РУС-1 , abbreviation for радиоуловитель самолётов , "aircraft radar ") was the first Soviet radar system and was adopted in 1939 as part of the Red Army equipment . Its successor was the RUS-2 type .

history

At the beginning of 1933, the Chief of Armament of the Red Army, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, received research results, on the basis of which the first Soviet radio measuring station "Rapid" could be tested in Leningrad on July 10, 1934 . It worked with a wavelength of 4.7 m and a radiation width of 60 °. It was able to reliably locate Polikarpow R-5 aircraft 50 km away at an altitude of 5200 m. The first operational radio measuring station was handed over in 1938.

The RUS-1 worked on the principle of continuous radiation and only made it possible to determine the presence of enemy aircraft, but without recognizing their height and number. Targets could be detected in a 70 km wide strip up to a height of 12,000 m. The RUS-1 was used for the first time in the winter war against Finland . At the beginning of the war in 1941 , 41 RUS-1s were available in the air defenses of Moscow and Leningrad.

See also

literature

  • Olaf Groehler : History of the Air War 1910 to 1980 . 3. Edition. Military publishing house of the GDR , Berlin 1981.
  • Eckart Schlenker: On the development of Soviet radio measuring technology . In: Fliegerkalender der DDR 1987, ZDB -ID 192211-7 , pp. 186–195.
  • Karl-Heinz Otto: radio measurement technology . Military technical booklet series, Military Publishing House of the GDR , Berlin 1986, p. 2.