Russian Radars 1941 /Crimea
 

This questions is addressed to the Russian experts & historians
on this forum .

Were there any Radars in Crimea on June 22,1941 such at Cape Tarkhankut
and from what base in Romania or elsewhere Luftwaffe dispatched recon
planes on that day to Sevastopol ?

Below an excerpt from Russian historian M.Solonin " The sleeping airfields "

At 2.35 on June 22 Radar RUS-1 at Cape Tarkhankut discovered aerial target, going from the west.At 3.05 zvukopelengatornye
station recorded the noise of aircraft engines at a distance of 20 km from Sevastopol.Technique worked flawlessly.It was more
difficult with people.The commanders of all ranks began feverishly to find out to whom you can shift the responsibility for making
the decision to open fire ( of course his English translation is not precise )

Re: Russian Radars 1941 /Crimea
 

All I can say, probably there was.

When the Luftwaffe opened the Great Patriotic War by destroying a substantial fraction of Stalin's air force, it was unhindered by Soviet radar. There was only one kind of radar in use when the conflict began: RUS-2, the pulse-type air-warning equipment working on 4 m. That statement discounts completely the few units of the radio screen, RUS-1, the production version of Oshchepkov's Rapid of 1934, for which the war found no use; yet despite its complete failure during the Finnish War of 1939-40, 13 RUS-1 sets were manufactured in 1941. RUS-2 proved of value as an air-warning set but suffered from the need to have transmitter and receiver separated by about a kilometer, the antennas of which had to move synchronously. There were six sets in existence when war broke out, but they had no effect on events. The Scientific Research Institute of the Radio Industry (SRI) had devised how to use a common antenna before the war began and had incorporated it into the modification, RUS-2S, but production had not yet begun.

The radar groups in Leningrad (LFTI, NII-9) and Kharkov (UFTI) soon found their principal problem was evacuation to the east, both of development laboratories and production plants, a process that removed five months of any useful activity. The death in March 1940 of Professor M A Bonch-Bruyevich, who had taken over the leadership of NII-9 after the purges added to the turmoil with which that group had had to deal. The production of only 53 RUS-2S sets during 1942 tells the story more eloquently with numbers than is possible with words .

Source: http://www.soviethammer.info/blog/57...-wwii-part-ii/

Re: Russian Radars 1941 /Crimea
 

Thank you so much for the details, I never saw a photo of WWII Russian Radars neither I think they got such through lend/lease agreements, I am also not aware of any Russian made plane equipped with airborne radars until they captured some ME-110's in Romania in 1944.