Satellite imagery reveals a successful hit on a very important military object in the western part of Crimea, temporarily occupied by russian forces. The photos show a damaged dome over the positions of the 3rd Radar Regiment that is deployed on the Tarkhankut Peninsula.
This is a very interesting spot to launch an attack on. These radiotransparent domes were built relatively recently, in 2020. Such cupolas are intended to protect the most expensive radar stations.
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In fact, so expensive that they even left such powerful radars as Nebo-M triple radar and Kasta-2E2 all-round low-altitude sensor, both available to the russian army in no more than a dozen units, to stand outside.
Despite russia's constant bravado about its weapons, there is no information to be found about the relocation of any sort of radar systems to Tarkhankut in 2019-2021. That is while movements of S-400 systems, Nebo-M were all reflected in the media, even the plans to deploy Podsolnukh over-the-horizon radar were disclosed.
Worth noting, there is a high chance a similar object was previously hit with an explosion in Feodosiia this April (eastern coast of Crimea). The attack landed on the positions of a detached radar company, military unit number 66751. It also features powerful radar systems, such as the Nebo-U system. Same kind of translucent domes, although older ones, from the Soviet era, had historically hidden 57U6 Periskop-VM antennas developed back in the 1970s. However, there's a high probability these aging radars were replaced with some kind of more capable system.
So the objective of these attacks is logical: to put a very valuable piece of russian radar equipment out of order, even though we don't know for sure what the target might actually be. Though that is not necessarily true for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and intelligence.
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