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Short Horn

Country of Origin: Russia

The Short Horn is an aircraft bombing and navigation radar used in earlier Russian bomber-type aircraft and in some updated aircraft.

The radar was associated with AS-5 and AS-6 air-to-surface missiles (no longer in service). It has frequency agility and diversity capabilities.

No longer in service.

The system was fitted on variants of the Tu-142 Bear aircraft; there is no confirmed public information about its current status with that plane. Current variants of the aircraft...

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