Scientific and Research Institute for Long-Distance Radio Communications
TypeOpen joint-stock company
IndustryDefense
Founded1916
Headquarters
Moscow
,
Russia
ParentRTI Systems (Sistema)
Websitewww.niidar.ru

The NIIDAR company, the Scientific and Research Institute for Long-Distance Radio Communications (Russian: Научно-исследовательский институт дальней радиосвязи) is a Russian manufacturer of radar systems.

History

It was established in 1916 as an automobile repairs workshop, to repair vehicles damaged during World War I.[1] After 1939 it became known as the "Plant No. 37 named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze".[1] In the 1930s and 1940s, the plant built a number of light tanks, including the T-37A, T-38, T-40, T-60.[1] It developed a number of radars from 1949 to 1959 in co-operation with the NII-20 Lianozovo Electromechanical Plant.[2]

Products

Unlike the NNIIRT, this design bureau focused on higher frequency radars like the P-20, P-30, P-30M, P-35, P-32D2 and the P-50 (NATO: E/F-bands). These radars have better accuracy and faster scan rates, and are thus more suited for ground control of fighter aircraft, which complement the lower frequency radars developed by the NNIIRT design bureau.

NNIDAR has in recent years expanded their product range to include innovative radar designs like the Podsolnukh-E over-the-horizon (OTH) surface-wave radar[3] and the 29B6 Konteyner.[4] The latter, while also being an OTH-radar, has separate locations for the transmitter and the receiver making it a bi-static system.

NIIDAR designed air surveillance radars

RadarNATO reporting nameRadio spectrum (NATO)DevelopedNotes
P-20 PeriscopeE/F-band1949
P-50 ObservatoryE/F-band1949Stationary variant of P-20
P-30BIG MESHE/F-band1955
P-30M1959
P-35 SaturnBAR LOCKE/F-band1958
P-35MBAR LOCKE/F-band1961P-35 with Improved antenna layout
Sword-35BAR LOCKE/F-band1971faster scanning, improved antenna layout, polarization filters, pulse duration/frequency modulation
Podsolnukh-EVHFaround 2000Surface-wave radar
29B6 KonteynerVHFaround 2000Bi-static radar
Vitim (radar)VHFBi-static radar

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Историческая справка". NIIDAR. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "NIIDAR". Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Podsolnukh-E over-the-horizon surface-wave radar". Archived from the original on 15 January 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "29B6 Konteyner Over The Horizon Radar". Archived from the original on 2017-08-01.
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