NEW SOVIET MOBILE AIR DEFENSE COMMAND POST: DOG EAR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
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• Publication Date: October 1, 1983
• Content Type: REPORT

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NEW SOVIET MOBILE AIR DEFENSE COMMAND POST: DOG EAR (S)
INTRODUCTION
The report includes a conceptual drawing, seven photographs, and two maps. (S/WN)
June 1976 through August 1983 is supplemented
testing, production, and deployment of this system. Analysis of available satellite imagery from
1. The Soviets have been developing a new, ground forces-associated, mobile, air defense
command post since the mid-1970s. This mobile command post, designated DOG EAR (formerly
DO-EL-03), consists of an acquisition radar and command, control, and communications (C3)
equipment mounted on a tracked armored vehicle. It could operate with a variety of regimental-
or division-level air defense forces and would provide lower echelon air defense units with an
early warning capability they now lack. It will also integrate these units more closely into the air
defense network during battle. At least pilot-series production has begun on DOG EAR, and full-
scale production and deployment could begin at any time. (S/WN)
2. This is the first report on DOG EAR and summarizes information on the development,
DISCUSSION
rectangular parabolic radar antenna with
clipped corners, which folds down to the rear
for travel, is mounted on a rotatable platform
sance vehicle ACRV M-1974. A
3. The DOG EAR (Figure 1) is a variant of
the tracked armored command reconnais-
in place of the turret. The antenna is similar in
shape and configuration to the acquisition
radar antenna of the LAND ROLL radar system
on the SA-8 transporter-launcher and radar. A
large rectangular storage box is mounted on
the right rear of the vehicle. (S/WN)
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3 Volka Artillery/SAM Maneuver
Training Area
4 Yoshkar-Ola Optical and Radar Plant
Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility
Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility Northwest
5 Donguz Weapons and Electrionics Proving
Ground Northeast
Production
Test
Test/storage
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Early Evidence
4. The DOG EAR, or activities relating to
it, have been observed at five
Soviet locations (Figure
2) since 1977:1
Three electronics test facilities- Donguz
Weapons and Electronics Proving Ground
Northeast, Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility, and
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Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility Northwest;
One production plant -Yoshkar-Ola Op-
tical and Radar Plant 297;
Two training facilities-Volka Artillery/
SAM Maneuver Training Area, and
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5. The DOG EAR was first observed on
overhead imagery on at Donguz
(Figure 3), which is the main Soviet support
facility for test and evaluation of ground
forces-associated antiaircraft artillery (AAA)
and SAM systems and their associated elec-
tronics. It was given the NPIC interim designa-
tion DO-EL-03. This was the only time the
DOG EAR has been observed at Donguz.
Recent Evidence
(Three air defense-
related electronics production and test facili-
ties-a manufacturing plant, and two radar
test facilities-have been identified in the
Yoshkar-Ola area (Figure 4). The Yoshkar-Ola
Optical and Radar Plant 297 produces FLAP
WHEEL AAA fire control radars, computer/
electronics van trailers associated with SA-2,
SA-3, SA-5 and SA-10 SAM systems, and the SA-
X-12 command and control vehicles. The PAT
HAND tracking and guidance radar for the SA-
1. Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility
2. Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility Northwest
3. Yoshkar-Ola Optical and Radar Plant 297
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FIGURE 3. INITIAL OBSERVATION OF DOG EAR
AT DONGUZ
4 SAM system was produced there prior to
June 1981. This plant also installs electronics
equipment in ACRV M-1974s, which have
been seen there canvas-covered since 1979,
and box-bodied van trucks~
7. Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility, lo-
cated 3.3 nautical miles (nm) WNW of the
plant, is the main developmental test and
calibration facility for the plant. Several sheds
are used to conceal test activities there. FLAP
WHEEL radars are routinely seen at this facility,
and canvas-covered turretless ACRV M-1974s
have been at this facility since October 1981.
Yoshkar-Ola Radar Test Facility Northwest is
2.0 nm NW of the plant and serves primarily as
FIGURE 4. AIR DEFENSE ELECTRONICS-RELATED PRODUCTION AND TEST FACILITIES IN THE
YOSHKAR-OLA AREA
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the plant's main vehicle storage area. Most
types of vehicles that have been observed at
the plant have also been seen there. Canvas-
covered turretless ACRVs have been there
since July 1982. (S/WN)
Recent Imagery Evidence
when one DOG EAR in operational mode was
seen in this test facility adjacent to the new
shed (Figure 6). A probable DOG EAR without
the radar antenna was in the FLAP WHEEL
storage yard of the Yoshkar-Ola plant on the
same date (Figure 7). (S/WN)
Yoshkar-Ola was confirmed on
9. The first imagery-derived evidence of
the presence of DOG EAR at any of the
Yoshkar-Ola facilities was the observation of
two possible canvas-covered DOG EARs at the
radar test facility on (Figure 5). On
the same date, a new test shed was under
construction. The presence of DOG EAR at
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10. Activity related to field testing and
troop training with the DOG EAR has been
reported at one Soviet
Imagery Analyst's Comments
11. Based on all available information, it
seems certain that the DOG EAR,
training at Volka, probably with ZSU-23/4 and
DOG EAR has begun at Yoshkar-Ola Optical
and Radar Plant 297, and this system has been
deployed for probable field testing and troop
command post mounting an acquisition radar
and will be deployed with regimental- or
divisional-level air defense units. Use of the
tracked ACRV M-1974 chassis provides suffi-
cient mobility to allow the DOG EAR to keep
up with advancing ground forces units and
their air defense forces in a fluid battle
situation. At least pilot series production of
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All available satellite imagery acquired from June 1977 through August 1983 was used in the preparation
of this report. (S/WN)
DOCUMENTS
1. NSA. New Possible Acquisition Radar Initially Active g/Maneuver Area, Minsk
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Comments and queries regarding this report are welcome. They may be directed to!
USAF, Warsaw Pact Forces Divsion, Imagery Exploitation Group, NPIC,
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