Syria get Advanced Artillery Tracker System from Russia

Damascus appreciated the Russian Defense Ministry for delivering an advanced model of "Aistyonok" artillery-missile tracker system to the Syrian Army to reinvigorate its truce-monitoring capabilities, the spokesman for the Syrian army said.

Aistyonok is a portable radar system intelligence and control fire (counter-battery radar). Designed for intelligence-monitoring of positions of fire weapons (artillery and mortar positions, launchers, tactical missiles and air defense systems, etc.), Calculating the trajectories of shells and rockets, surveillance of airspace and control of unmanned aerial vehicles.

81-120 mm mortar shelling, tanks' fire from five kilometers distance and 122-155 mm artillery units' fire from 20 kilometers distance can be traced by Russian system.