Description
PRP-3 “Val” (PRP stands for podvizhnoy razvedyvatel’niy punkt – mobile reconnaissance post) – Is a BMP-1 converted into an artillery reconnaissance vehicle. The vehicle was fitted with two R-123M or R-108 radios and optical devices which enabled it to function in the artillery/guided missile target indication, fire adjustment and/or artillery/mortar locating roles. A shuttered housing held an optical device on the right hand side of the turret. It had a rectangular folding antenna for the 1RL126 “Small Fred” counterbattery/surveillance radar mounted in a circular hatch cover on the left of the rear of the turret which operated in the J-band and had a detection range of 20 km and a tracking range of 7 km.
The SNAR-10 combined the 1RL-127 “Big Fred” ground surveillance radar system with the standard MT-LB multipurpose tracked vehicle chassis. With a radar range of 10 miles, its main use was locating enemy mortar and artillery positions, although the radar could also detect vehicles and low-flying helicopters. The designation ‘SNAR’ comes from Stantsiya Nazemnoy Artilleriskoy Razvedki, which translates as Ground Artillery Reconnaissance Station.
Set consists of 7+7 fine metal 1:600th/3mm scale miniatures.
Producer: ‘Oddział Ósmy’ sc Marcin Kaźmierczak i Tomasz Kołuda, ul. Piotrkowska 107, 90-425 Łódź, Poland
