From Jane's Defence Weekly

 

Ukraine sells Kolchuga to Iran

By Robert Karniol JDW Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief

Bangkok

 

The Kolchuga is intended to detect the take-off and formation of aircraft groups at ranges beyond those of existing radar, as well as determine the course and speed of targets while designating them for air-defence systems. It can identify aerial targets through their emissions and identify the mode of aircraft weapon control systems.

 

Three Kolchuga stations would normally operate along with a command vehicle to provide accurate triangulation on a target. The system is claimed to have a range of 600 km (narrow beam) or 200 km (wide beam) along a front of 1,000 km.

 

It is not known how many Kolchuga stations Iran has acquired. However, sources told Jane's that each costs about USD25 million, with deliveries either recent or imminent.

Does the Kolchuga appear in HC or in the H4.1 data annexes? Interesting capabilities. seems western pressure put the kabash on a proposed sale from Ukraine to Iraq prior the ongoing situation there.

 

Equally interesting is that the verbage on the globalsecurity site is that the Czech Republic has a copy, so I would assume that entrance to NATO may have had costs that likely exposed the Kolchuga to examination/testing to look for its true performance and ways to neutralize it.