Singapore commissions ELM-2311 Safari radar
The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) officially commissioned the Elta Systems ELM-2311 tactical counter-rocket artillery and mortar (C-RAM) radar into the 24th Singapore Artillery Battalion on 28 September.
Known locally as the Safari Weapon Locating Radar (WLR), the system is integrated on a trailer towed by the ST Kinetics Bronco tracked carrier.
Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), successfully tested the system against live munitions in February 2014.
The ELM-2311 is a C-band weapon-locating active electronically-scanned array (AESA) radar capable of a persistent surveillance sector mode of 120º, or a 360º rotating mode with a minimum crew of two
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