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Satellite Images Confirm Destruction of Russian RLK-1 Radar in Rostov
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Satellite imagery has confirmed the destruction of a Russian RLK-1 “Navigation-South” radar system in the Rostov region following a Ukrainian strike on September 4, Dnipro OSINT reported, sharing the images on September 14.
The images show one of the radar’s dome-shaped antenna arrays destroyed.
👀 Satellite images of the destroyed September 4 dome radar station in Rostov region, - Dnipro Osint pic.twitter.com/BfnZ8YWWHp
— MAKS 25 🇺🇦👀 (@Maks_NAFO_FELLA) September 14, 2025
The system had been stationed at a former Russian air defense site (unit 65312). It was part of Russia’s regional air traffic management network in the south.
The RLK-1 “Navigation-South” radar offers a comprehensive range of functions, including aircraft detection and tracking, route coordination, flight support, aviation communications, and satellite fixed communications.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces have recently stepped up strikes on Russian radar sites, aiming to degrade Moscow’s radar coverage—especially around occupied Crimea.
Just days earlier, on September 9, Ukrainian forces released footage of a precision strike on a Russian 1L219 Zoopark-1M counter-battery radar, a system valued at around $24 million.
The video, published by Ukraine’s Shadow UAV unit, showed a Shark reconnaissance drone tracking the Zoopark. Russian operators quickly attempted to relocate the system to cover after spotting the drone. Despite the move, the radar was then targeted, likely by a US-supplied HIMARS multiple launch rocket system.
The first rocket fell short, but the second landed close to the vehicle. Initial assessments suggest the Zoopark-1M remained mobile, though its radar array likely sustained significant shrapnel damage.
Earlier, Ukrainian military intelligence operatives struck two advanced Russian radar systems in occupied Crimea, targeting critical elements of Moscow’s air defense network.
Special forces units used unmanned systems to hit a 48Ya6-K1 “Podlet” radar and an RLM-M module belonging to the 55Zh6M “Nebo-M” radar complex.
