Samuil Pavlovich Rabinovich (; 1909–1988) was a
Soviet engineer, one of the founders of practical
radiolocation
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, the chief designer of the first series of
radar stations designed in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
Rabinovich was born in 1909 in the village of Kamenka,
Dnipro Raion. From 1931 to 1937 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Communication Engineers. In the years 1937-1940 participated in creating the first practical radar station (radar) RUS-2 "Redoubt". This station was deployed in the war near the
Moscow detected more than 200 German bombers and gave information about them to guide fighters and targeting
anti-aircraft artillery
Anti-aircraft warfare, counter-air or air defence forces is the battlespace response to aerial warfare, defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action".AAP-6 It includes surface based, ...
.
From 1942, Rabinovich is deputy chief designer of the radar station CPA-2, and since 1945 - chief designer of the radar CPA-4 ("Ray"). For the first time in domestic practice, the station CPA-4 provided three modes: circular scanning, manual
antenna
Antenna ( antennas or antennae) may refer to:
Science and engineering
* Antenna (radio), also known as an aerial, a transducer designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic (e.g., TV or radio) waves
* Antennae Galaxies, the name of two collid ...
control and automatic target tracking the angular coordinates. The first mode is used for target detection and monitoring of the traffic condition on the indicator, the second—for the detection of targets in specific sector before going to the auto maintenance and for coarse positioning, the third—to accurately determine the
azimuth and
elevation in automatic mode and manual slant range or semi-automatic way.
From 1956, Rabinovich is chief designer of the radar sighting of
interceptor missiles and command transfer station (RSVPR) experimental
missile defense
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system (NMD). Fully missile defense system first tested in March 1961 had shown the fundamental possibility of defeat
warheads of
ballistic missiles. This achievement had risen in a row with the launch of the first
Sputnik
Sputnik 1 (; see § Etymology) was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for t ...
, the first
cosmonaut, and other accomplishments, which showed the highest scientific, technical and organizational level of defense enterprises and organizations of the
Ministry of Defense.
In the 1970s was the chief designer of the radar ST-68 (5N59) - moving the three coordinates of the station to detect and track low-altitude targets in active and passive noise in the presence of strong reflections from the ground and in adverse weather conditions.
Awards
*
Order of the Red Star
The Order of the Red Star (russian: Орден Красной Звезды, Orden Krasnoy Zvezdy) was a military decoration of the Soviet Union. It was established by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 6 April 193 ...
(1939)
*
Stalin Prize (1950)
* Two
Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1954, 1964)
*
Order of the Badge of Honour (1961)
Biographical sources
* Scientific-Research Institute of Electro, History Enterprises http://www.niemi.ru/
* Milestones of the 35-year history TSNPO-MAK Vympel
https://archive.today/20130417230008/http://old.vko.ru/article.asp?pr_sign=archive.2005.22.20
* YB Kobzarev, first steps of Soviet radar, Nature Magazine, December 1985, http://vivovoco.rsl.ru/VV/JOURNAL/NATURE/OLD/RADAR.HTM
* By the 90th anniversary of the birth of Grigory Kisunko-first General Designer of domestic resources and systems, the Federal Agency for Industry, https://web.archive.org/web/20080213163450/http://www.rosprom.gov.ru/
* Short History of Engineering in, http://pvo.guns.ru/book/vniirt/index.htm
* The first round of Star Wars won SOVIET Union, the Independent Military Review, 2001, http://nvo.ng.ru/history/2001-03-23/5_round.html
* Kisunko Grigory "Sekrenaya Zone: Confessions of a master designer, Chapter 13, Contemporary, 1996.
External links
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Материал из Википедии — свободной энциклопедии
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1909 births
1988 deaths
People from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Recipients of the Order of the Red Star
Recipients of the Stalin Prize
Radar pioneers
Soviet engineers