Knife Rest

The Knife Rest (Russian: P-8) series of radars were used for early warning in conjunction with the SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. The antenna consists of a twin Yagi array.

Knife Rest-A is ground-mounted; the Knife Rest-B/C (Russian: P-10) models are truck-mounted. A navy variant was fitted in some SVERDLOV-class cruisers and T-43-class minesweepers.

The Knife Rest-A and -B also differ in the number of elements in the Yagi array. The A-model has four sections...