Penicillin or 1B75 Penicillin is an acoustic-thermal artillery-reconnaissance system developed by Ruselectronics for the

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. The system aims to detect and locate enemy artillery, mortars, MLRs, anti-aircraft or tactical-missile firing positions with

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and acoustic sensors, without emitting any radio waves. It locates enemy fire within 5 seconds at a range of . Penicillin completed state trials in December 2018 and entered combat duty in 2020.

Design

The ''Penicillin'' is mounted on the 8x8 Kamaz-6350 chassis and consists of a 1B75 sensor suite placed on a telescopic boom for the infrared and visible spectrum as well as of several ground-installed seismic and acoustic receivers as a part of the 1B76 sensor suite. It has an effective range for communication with other military assets up to and is capable to operate even in a fully automatic mode, without any crew. One system can reportedly cover an entire division against an enemy fire. Besides that, it co-ordinates and corrects a friendly artillery fire.

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{{Reflist Ruselectronics Counter-battery radars Modern military equipment of Russia Military electronics of Russia Military equipment introduced in the 2010s

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