The Cobra Story

The COBRA Counter Battery Radar is a counter battery radar system jointly developed by Thales, Airbus Defence and Space and Lockheed Martin for the French, British and German Armed Forces. It is a mobile active 3D electronically scanned array radar based on a wheeled chassis for enemy field artillery acquisition.

Each antenna is thought to contain approximately 20,000 GaAs integrated circuits. This allows the device to display the position of multiple enemy artillery pieces at extremely long ranges, and the radar is capable of dealing with saturation bombing.

In addition, there is a high level of automated software, with high-speed circuits and secure data transmission, that can evade detection by enemy electronic countermeasures.

The German government pledged to provide COBRA to Ukraine in 2022 in response to Russias invasion of Ukraine.

Cobra Specification

Configuration

  1. Bike without leveling or stabilization

  2. cab with operator and C3 console

  3. In-vehicle main power unit

  4. Vehicle Integrated User Artillery Command and Control System

  5. Integrated Inertial Navigation System (Laser Gyroscope) with GPS option

  6. Air conditioner with ABC filter (gas, chemicals and particulates)

  7. Shelter for bulletproof and small arms fire

Tasks

  1. Enemy battery location:

  2. Battery center position/Battery width and orientation/

  3. Weapon Classification/Action Area/Weapon and Area Priority

  4. Friendly Fire Registration and Customization:

  5. Shooting Location/Setting Parameters

Range Mode

  1. Short/Standard/Long 20, 30, 40 km

  2. 1200 square kilometers

  3. Operation Mode

  4. Automatic - Bootstrap tasks and submit results via C3-Link

  5. Autonomous - not connected to C3-Link, operator defined

Deployment

  1. Crew size 1-3 soldiers

  2. Storage time 5-15 minutes

  3. Degradation time 3-5 minutes

  4. Using Airborne Inertial Navigation Systems

  5. Digital Background Map and Digital Topographic Map (DTM)

  6. Calculate Terrain Mask from DTM

Priorities

  1. Task Priority

  2. Location Area Priority

  3. Weapon System Class Priority

See

for battery location

  1. Battery location criteria

  2. Number of weapons 1-8

  3. Relative radius 100-200 m

  4. Association time 10-999 seconds

  5. Location rate>40 batteries in 2 minutes

  6. Position Rate Mode Normal, High

Customization/registration of friendly fire

  1. Custom tasks and positioning tasks simultaneously

  2. Accuracy <15km - 50m CEP

  3. >15 km - 0.35% range

Additional data

  1. Shelter Dimensions 600 x 250 x 210 cm

  2. Prime Powerplant Dimensions 80x250x200cm

  3. Vehicle Platform (Interface Frame) Dimensions 750 x 250 cm

  4. Vehicle Payload 10 tons

  5. The shelter weighs about 8000

  6. The weight of the main power unit is 1900 kg

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