- Domain
- Cyber and C4ISR
- NCF capability
- Command
- Military Balance category
- Radars
- SIPRI category
- Sensors
- Evidence that places a platform here
- radar · over.the.horizon · early.warning radar · surveillance radar · counter.battery · weapon.locating · sensor
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesLegacy only · 1United KingdomLegacy only · 2AustraliaLegacy only · 2FranceNoneGermanyModern and on order · 12JapanNoneSouth KoreaLegacy only · 11CanadaLegacy only · 3ItalyLegacy only · 3IndiaLegacy only · 10TürkiyeLegacy only · 16Saudi ArabiaLegacy only · 5BrazilLegacy only · 5IndonesiaLegacy only · 9MexicoLegacy only · 2ArgentinaLegacy only · 7South AfricaLegacy only · 1RussiaLegacy only · 4ChinaLegacy only · 2IsraelNoneUkraineModern and on order · 17TaiwanLegacy only · 5IranNoneNorth KoreaNone
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 0 of these 8, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only long-range radar in colour.
United States MSTAR –
United Kingdom GIRAFFE Radar 6, ARTHUR 5
Australia AN/FPS-117 4, MSTAR –
Germany COBRA 12, AN/FPS-117 9, Ozelot AFF 7
South Korea TPS-830K 54, Oerlikon GDF series 35 mm twin gun mount 36, ARTHUR 20
Canada MSTAR 200, EL/M-2084 10, Oerlikon GDF series 35 mm twin gun mount 10
Italy AN/FPS-117 6, ARTHUR 5, Leonardo Kronos Grand Mobile High Power SAMP/T NG Middle life upgrade –
India BEL Battle Field Surveillance Radar 1,400, Flycatcher 260, BEL Weapon Locating Radar 49
Türkiye AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel 13, AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar 11, RAT 31DL 4
Saudi Arabia COBRA 102, Oerlikon GDF series 35 mm twin gun mount 92, AN/TPS-43 28
Brazil Oerlikon GDF series 35 mm twin gun mount 13, AN/FPS-117 6, GIRAFFE Radar –
Indonesia Ground Master 400 13, Ground Master 200 10, AR-325 Commander 3
Mexico COBRA 340, AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel 4
Argentina RASIT 44, ACAR Ground Surveillance Radar 19, Oerlikon Skyguard 5
South Africa Super Fledermaus 75
Russia 1L219 Zoopark-1 –, 9S18 Kupol/9S18M1 –, Predel-E –
China Oerlikon GDF series 35 mm twin gun mount 200, R-77 –
Ukraine AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar 39, AN/TPQ-53 Quick Reaction Capability Radar 24, AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel 17
Taiwan CS/MPQ-90 Bee Eye 16–30, AN/FPS-117 8–14, PAVE PAWS 1–1