Hopefully PiBu won’t mind if I post this- its a drawing of MFI from 1996, well before the public unveiling, but I think you’ll agree its a lot closer than other ones. I suspect he saw a picture of it much earlier, as John Lake did 😉

No, it doesn’t do Polish.

I did find one here:

http://www.poltran.com/

To answer my own question 😉

With the Zaslon NIIP managed to get reasonable performance out to +-60 deg. The newer type antenna used on Bars is better in a lot of ways, but NIIP have struggled to achieve their initially predicted +-60 deg from early Bars documentation. The production Bars is consequently limited to +-40 deg in electronic scanning.

Note that the radar is derived from the N011, a planar antenna radar which was heavier than the N001. Replacing the lightweight antenna with a 110kg phased array probably only made matters worse.

As for performance, you have to distinguish AA performance from AS performance. Russian fighter radar makers are only in their first generation of multirole AA/AS radars, and are really only at APG-65 level at best. The Bars (and Zhuk in its original form) is restricted by lack of signal processing power to around 10m in SAR mapping resolution. CAPTOR can manage 1m already and 0.3m shortly.

NIIP acknowledge this is a drawback of the Bars, and all their newer radars will use COTS technology in the Baget-55 series of signal processors. Perhaps India will upgrade the Bars signal processor to a more powerful one at a later date…