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Big Bulge**

Country of Origin: Russia

The Big Bulge** was an aircraft surface search and missile targeting radar. It was used with a video data link to transmit radar pictures of target ships to missile-launching aircraft or submarines.

The Big Bulge-A (Uspekh-1A) was fitted in a large, under-fuselage radome bulge on Bear -D** long-range naval reconnaissance aircraft (no longer in service).

The Big Bulge-B was in a chin mounting on the Ka-25T Hormone-B** (Uspekh-2A) ship-based helicopter. This had a shorter range...

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