The MR-103 Bars (

NATO reporting name NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manne ...

: Muff Cob) is a type of

fire control radar A fire-control radar (FCR) is a radar that is designed specifically to provide information (mainly target azimuth, elevation angle, elevation, ranging, range and range rate) to a fire-control system in order to direct weapons such that they hit a ...

first used by the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

and now by several other countries. It first came into service in or about 1962, and is used to control guns. It has similarities to

Drum Tilt The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, it is a membranophone. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a she ...

, but unlike Drum Tilt, Muff Cob elevates to track its target, and is considered to be much more stable. It is usually twinned with an AK-725-MR-103 Fire Control System, and is fitted with a television camera to video its target.

References

{{reflist Ground radars Russian and Soviet military radars