1500 mm RP-15-1

It is designed to detect air targets and determine the slant range to them, to accurately aim the searchlight in azimuth and elevation at the detected target, to illuminate it with a searchlight beam at night. The station is a ZP-15-2 anti-aircraft searchlight, on which a radar and a remote control system with a remote control post are mounted. The station also includes a power unit on a ZiS-151 car, which is also a tractor.

Country: USSR

Detection range: 30 km

Bearing range: 25 km

Weight: 5070 kg

Artillery Museum (Petrograd DistrictSt. Petersburg)

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