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List of NATO reporting names for equipment

This is a list of NATO names for Soviet, Russian and Chinese radars and ELINT systems. For additional reporting names, see NATO reporting names.

NATO reporting names

B

  • Ball End – common navigational radar.
  • Band Stand – Missile tracking and control
  • Bar Lock A – Russian P-37 "Metch" (1RL139) 2D air surveillance radar. The basic "Bar Lock" dates back to 1961.
  • Bass Tilt – MR-123, fire control radar of the AK-630 close-in weapon system
  • Bell Clout – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Bell Shroud – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Bell Squat – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Big Bird C – SA-20 (S-300PMU-1/2) regiment surveillance radar 64N6, 1996
  • Big Bird D – SA-21 (S-400 missile system) regiment surveillance radar 91N6, 2017
  • Big Net – Long-range air search radar

C

  • Cage Bare – VHF antenna
  • Cage Cone – VHF antenna
  • Cage Pot – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Cage Stalk – VHF antenna
  • Clam Shell – 76N6 low-altitude surveillance radar for S-300P
  • Cross Bird – Gius-2 long range air search radar. A copy of British Type 291 radar.
  • Cross Dome – MR-352 Pozitiv, a target designation radar
  • Cross Slot – Soviet HF Coastal

D

  • Don – Navigational radar.
  • Don-Kay – Navigational radar for large ships. Replaced by Palm Frond.
  • Down Beat – Maritime bomber I-band targeting radar for anti-ship cruise missiles.
  • Drum Tilt – MR-104 Rys, a gun fire-control radar

E

  • Egg Cup – Fire control radar for guns
  • Eye Bowl – Missile tracking and control

F

  • Fan Song – fire control radar of the SA-2 system
  • Flat Face – target acquisition radar of the SA-3 system
  • Flat Jack – rotodome-mounted airborne search radar of the Tupolev Tu-126 Moss
  • Flat Twin – ABM radar for the uncommissioned S-225 ABM system
  • Fire Dome – fire control radar of the SA-11 system
  • Fire Can – gun direction radar used during the Vietnam War
  • Flap Lid – fire control radar of the SA-10A/B system
  • Flash Dance – BRLS-8B "Zaslon" radar found on the MiG-31.
  • Foxfire – The TL-25 Smerch-A (also referred to as Product 720) radar featured in the MiG-25
  • Front Dome – MR-90 Orekh, fire control radar of SA-N-7 system

G

  • Grave Stone – fire control radar of the SA-21 system
  • Grill Pan – fire control radar of the SA-12 system

H

  • Hair Net – Long-range air search radar
  • Half Bow – Fire control radar for guns
  • Half Plate – MR-755 Fregat, target designation radar of SA-N-7 system
  • Hawk Screech – MR-105 Turel, a gun fire-control radar
  • Head Lights – Missile tracking and control
  • Head Net-A – Long-range air search radar
  • Head Net-B – Long-range air search radar
  • Head Net-C – Long-range air search radar
  • High Pole A – Identification friend or foe antenna
  • High Pole B – Identification friend or foe antenna
  • High Sieve – Long-range air search radar

K

  • Kite Screech – MR-184, fire control radar of the AK-100 naval gun system
  • Knife Rest – Long-range air search radar

L

  • Land Roll – fire control radar of the SA-8 system
  • Low Blow – fire control radar of the SA-3 system

M

  • Moon Coast – Soviet Coastal
  • Muff Cob – Fire control radar for guns

O

  • Owl Screech – Fire control radar for guns

P

  • Palm Frond – MR-212/201, a surface search radar
  • Pat Hand – fire control radar of the SA-4 system
  • Peel Group – Missile tracking and control
  • Plank Shave – Long-range air search radar
  • Plinth Net – Missile tracking and control
  • Pop Group – fire-control radar of SA-N-4 system
  • Pork Trough – mortar-projectile tracking radar
  • Post Lamp – Fire control radar for guns
  • Pot Drum – surface search radar
  • Pot Hand – surface search radar
  • Punch Bowl – Korvet-5 satellite data link used on Soviet surface ships and submarines.

R

  • Round House – Radar array
  • Rum Tub – Electronic warfare jamming radar

S

  • Salt Pot A – Identification friend or foe antenna
  • Scoop Pair – Missile tracking and control
  • Scrum Half – fire control radar of the SA-15 system
  • Side Globe – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Side Net – height finder radar of the SA-3 system
  • Skip Spin – The Oryol ('eagle') radar set featured perhaps most memorably on the Yak-28, but also on the Su-11, and Su-15.
  • Slim Net – Long-range air search radar
  • Slot Back – The N-019 pulse-Doppler target acquisition radar used on the MiG-29
  • Small Fred – counter-battery/surveillance radar, mounted onto a PRP-3 Val
  • Small Yarn – mortar-projectile tracking radar mounted in a shelter on an AT-L self-propelled, fully tracked chassis.
  • Snoop Pair – surface search radar for submarines
  • Snoop Plate – surface search radar for submarines
  • Snoop Slab – surface search radar for submarines
  • Snoop Tray – surface search radar for submarines
  • Soft Ball – Ramona ELINT system
  • Spin Scan – The RP-21 Sapfir (sapphire) radar set featured in the MiG-21
  • Spin Trough – Navigational radar
  • Square Head – Identification friend or foe antenna
  • Square Pair – fire control radar of the SA-5 system
  • Square Tie – surface search radar for small combatants and cruise missile target designation. Chinese type 352.
  • Squat Eye – alternate target acquisition radar of the SA-3 system
  • Steel Yard – The Duga over-the-horizon radar
  • Straight Flush – fire control radar of the SA-6 system
  • Strut Curve – MR-302, a surface and air-search radar
  • Strut Pair – Long-range air search radar
  • Sun Visor – Fire control radar for guns

T

  • Tin Shield B – 5N59S/36D6, air search radar of SA-10b
  • Tomb Stone – fire control radar of the SA-20A/B system
  • Top Bow – Fire control radar for guns
  • Top Dome – Missile tracking and control
  • Top Hat A – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Top Hat B – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Top Knot – Radar array
  • Top Mesh – Long-range air search radar
  • Top Pair – Long-range air search radar
  • Top Plate – MR-710 Fregat, a target designation radar
  • Top Plate-B – MR-760 Fregat, an air search radar
  • Top Sail – Long-range air search radar
  • Top Steer – Long-range air search radar
  • Top Trough – Long-range air search radar
  • Trap Door – Missile tracking and control
  • Trash Can – Tamara ELINT system

V

  • Vee Bars – HF communication antenna
  • Vee Cone – HF communication antenna
  • Vee Tube – HF communication antenna

W

  • Wall Eye – Chinese JY-8 and JY-8A
  • Watch Dog – Electronic warfare jamming radar
  • Watchman (T) – Soviet, in Chinese service since 1990
  • Wide Mat – Chinese JY-27

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