Cobra Radar roll-out.

Euro-Art has announced the roll-out of the last Counter Battery Radar (Cobra) system that have been delivered to France and Germany under a 500 million [euro] contract. The Cobra weapon location radar detects small cross-section artillery targets, predicts impact points and classifies ammunition types and firing modes. The Cobra is contained in a single cross-country wheeled vehicle atop which sits a solid-state, fully active, modular, phased array antenna with 3000 gallium arsenide-based transmit/receive modules. Within less than two minutes the system can locate and pinpoint more than 40 six-gun artillery batteries and report their locations to higher commands. Under the delivery contract, Germany received 29 systems and ten went to France. The Euro-Art consortium was formed in 1989 and consists of Eads Deutschland, Thales Air Systems, Thales UK and Lockheed Martin.