COBRA
Counter Battery RadarThe challenge
Hostile forces may use artillery and mortar fire to try and weaken or destroy the own military structures. As own forces may not be able to see the enemy artillery and mortar positions directly, it is difficult to effectively counter their attacks.
A counter battery radar can detect enemy artillery and mortar positions, allowing the own units to accurately return fire and neutralize the enemy threat.
Our solution
COBRA, short for Counter Battery Radar, is a high mobility weapon location radar which meets all NATO requirements.
The Euro-Art Consortium has been the first company worldwide to develop and manufacture this multifunctional counter battery radar with a fully active phased array antenna.
COBRA today in its non-NATO export version has been remarkably improved in performance and design by keeping its original features. The system is sold by Euro-Art International EWIV, a successful joint venture of HENSOLDT and THALES.
COBRA is the radar system for the accurate and rapid location of enemy guns, rocket launchers and mortars. It may also be used for the adjustment of the fire of own artillery.
COBRA is fielded on a single vehicle, and achieves its full performance requirements without levelling or stabilisation jacks thereby exceeding rapid deployment and high mobility requirements. Powerful software algorithms automatically compensate for terrain slopes (COBRA pitch and roll) and calculate each search beam elevation to graze the radar horizon before transmission begins.
COBRA today is field proven for operations at 50°C ambient temperature, is equipped with a modern operator HMI and is using modern digital hardware. An enhancement package implements Extended Long Range for detections up to 100km, adds a Second Layer Search Fence and uses automatic sand storm filtering in harsh environments.
Features and benefits
Features
- Unbeatable Accuracy
- Ease of Operation
- High Mobility
- High Reliability
- Survivability
Benefits
- Detecting small cross-section targets across the entire battlefield
- More than 40 six-gun batteries can be located and reported to a higher command in less than 2 minutes
- Performing friendly fire registration
- Contained in a single cross-country wheeled vehicle for high mobility with rapid deployment and decamp times
