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164th Radio Technical Brigade (Ukraine)
The 164th Radio Technical Brigade "Slobidska" is a Brigade of the Ukrainian Air Force concerned with radar operations in Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv Sumy Oblast, Sumy, Poltava Oblast, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, Donetsk, Luhansk Oblast, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, an area of about 200 thousand square kilometers and a population of eighteen million. It is subordinated to the Air Command East. It is headquartered in Kharkiv. History In 1992, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the 164th Radio Technical Brigade of the Soviet Army swore allegiance to Ukraine becoming a part of its armed forces. On 21 February 2008, the brigade received the Combat Flag. In 2012, 15 radar units of the brigade and about 500 servicemen of the brigade ensured the security of Euro 2012 by providing radar coverage for air defense purposes. On 22 March 2012, a unit of the brigade was attacked by armed attackers killing a soldier of the brigade (Berezyuk Volod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radar
Radar is a system that uses radio waves to determine the distance ('' ranging''), direction ( azimuth and elevation angles), and radial velocity of objects relative to the site. It is a radiodetermination method used to detect and track aircraft, ships, spacecraft, guided missiles, motor vehicles, map weather formations, and terrain. The term ''RADAR'' was coined in 1940 by the United States Navy as an acronym for "radio detection and ranging". The term ''radar'' has since entered English and other languages as an anacronym, a common noun, losing all capitalization. A radar system consists of a transmitter producing electromagnetic waves in the radio or microwave domain, a transmitting antenna, a receiving antenna (often the same antenna is used for transmitting and receiving) and a receiver and processor to determine properties of the objects. Radio waves (pulsed or continuous) from the transmitter reflect off the objects and return to the receiver, giving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
