The russian Defense Ministry announced the deployment of the 1K148 Yastreb-AV artillery reconnaissance system in their army. However, the Ukrainian Defense Forces later released video evidence showcasing the successful destruction of this system in the Kherson region.
Ukrainian troops detected the Yastreb-AV and relayed the coordinates to artillery units. This led to a precise strike executed with HIMARS, effectively neutralizing the threat posed by the russian radar system.
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The first presentation of the russian 1K148 Yastreb-AV counter-battery radar system took place only in 2022, during the propaganda forum Army-2022. Information about the russian defense industry working on this counter-battery station first became known around 2021, with the completion of testing estimated to be at the beginning of 2022.
Exact specifications of the 1K148 Yastreb-AV are not publicly available. It is only known that the station uses a four-axle BAZ-6910-025 as its chassis and is purportedly capable of "automatically tracking the trajectory of shells fired" by artillery, determining the exact position coordinates. Its cost could reach $250 million.
It is particularly noteworthy that the M142 HIMARS was used to destroy the Yastreb-AV. This may indicate, among other things, that this advanced russian counter-battery radar system is unable to track the GMLRS projectiles.
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