ARTHUR - Artillery Hunting Radar

ARTHUR is a military radar system originally developed by Ericsson Microwave Systems (now Saab Microwave Systems) in close cooperation with the Swedish Defence Material Administration and Norwegian Army Material Command.

ARTHUR can operate as a stand-alone medium-range Weapons Locating Radar or a long-range weapon locating system, consisting of 2 to 4 radars working in coordination. This flexibility enables the system to maintain a constant surveillance of an area of interest on a complex battlefield.

It detects hostile projectiles and calculates their points of origin with great accuracy and these positions are automatically relayed to friendly artillery units, which can then return fire. ARTHUR also tracks out-going projectiles from friendly artillery and calculates points of impact. The radar is capable of detecting and track very small targets such as mortar bombs in the presence of clutter and electronics countermeasures (ECM).

With its low weight, small size and single vehicle configuration when mounted on a BV206, the system has high tactical and operational mobility and is capable of manoeuvering in the most difficult of terrain.

In a demonstration in Hungary, ARTHUR was able to detect and locate the firing units for 500 assorted rockets, cannon shells, and mortar rounds.

The British say that ARTHUR meets their requirement to locate any artillery piece firing within 15km of friendly troops within 75 meters. It can be carried by a C-130 or slung under a heavy lift helicopter such as a Chinook. Its air mobility allows it for use by light and rapid reaction forces such as the airborne and Marine units.

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• army
• arthur
• radar
• artillery
• hunting
• ericsson
• saab
• hägglunds
• bv206
• sweden
• swedish
• norway
• norwegian

[pingyamein]

its better to use remote spy robots to locate the enemy then this piece of shit....

[Scurck]

@pingyamein And how long will it take the "remote spy robots" to detect where the enemy artillery unit is located?

ARTHUR does it within seconds, which enables friendly artillery to fire at that location before the enemy rounds have even hit the ground.

[jebu23]

I wonder how this does in the field, heared that we have one one lone to the americans in the gulf

[Scurck]

The US and allies used several units extensively during the Iraq invasion and it had a spotless performance.

[Sarasu23]

the only problem is the range.. i mean 15 km??? what are you going to do with an artillery piece that is 30 km away or 60 km?? .. or 90 as the russian smerch can cover??? no point in knowing where the artillery is when you can't hit it..

[Scurck]

The ability to hit back is totally dependent on what kind of weapons you have. If you have something that can hit an enemy unit 90km away then you can try to shoot back.

The problem with calculating trajectories do of course increase the further away the firing units is located.

The 15km number was not range, it was the British requirement for finding the enemy artillery's location within 75 meters.

[beginmaster]

Sweden devlop alot of high tech weapons but the sad truth is that our government cut the defense budget and the number of conscripted males has been reduced dramatically.

R.I.P Swedish military!

[omega79009]

ce système me parait pas bon lui seul je préfère les obus guider par laser mais si les 2 système sont utiliser en meme temp ca peut etre dévasteur mais aussi tre cher

[dermalBRANDON]

im in the army on a Q37 radar and this thing is dogshit compaired to the Q37

[MrJesus666]

I'm joing the Royal Australian Artillery as a Weapon Locating Radar Operator so this video was great to see what sort of equipment I'll be using.

[drbackjack]

@pingyamein

LMAO THAT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!!

[omgnumbersandletters]

this is so cool. Looks like an AWACS for artillery lol

[scandapoodle]

@Sarasu23

even if you can't strike you now KNOW that you can't. knowing where your enemy is always half "victory". You now got what you need to make a decision to regroup of some style or another that is if you can't strike you can always make the attempt to save your forces.

[swertinge07]

@pingyamein NATO doesn´t agree with you. :)

[ostbagen]

@pingyamein Spy drones work good for giving a peek on the opponents positions, but as heavy artillery are more mobile now, you also need a fast and continuous updates of enemy artillery position.

[laskeet78]

@Scurck This thing is made for use on bad terrain. It'll be decades before spy robots are able to operate in Scandanavia without getting stuck every 5 meters. Airborne drones don't have that trouble, but they still take a while to find stuff. Conventional wars in this age last only a few hours, so a few seconds makes a huge difference.

[SuperRegisteredUser]

what does he say at 2:09? "the mobility of the system enables arthur to operate close to the foward line of own troops or XXXXXXX" It sounds like "flots".