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Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant (NITEL) Weapon Systems

Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant (NITEL) is a Russian radio-electronics and radar producer in Nizhny Novgorod. Historical radar references identify the plant, under its Soviet-era Gorky Television Plant name, as the serial-production site for the 1L13 Nebo-SV mobile VHF radar.

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Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant (NITEL) is a Russian radio-electronics producer associated in open references with radar and air-defense sensor production. Its Soviet-era Gorky Television Plant name appears in historical accounts of the 1L13 Nebo-SV program.

For this catalog, NITEL is used where sources identify the plant as the serial-production site for Nebo-family radar equipment rather than as the design bureau for the radar.

Radar productionAir-defense radar equipmentRadio-electronic equipmentMilitary radar modernization and support

Notable Systems

1L13 Nebo-SV

Vestnik PVO identifies serial production of the 1L13 Nebo-SV radar as organized at the Gorky Television Plant named after V. I. Lenin, later associated with the NITEL name.

Sources: Vestnik PVO Nebo-SV profile

The plant's name appears in sources under Soviet-era Gorky and post-Soviet Nizhny Novgorod/NITEL forms. This profile uses NITEL as the canonical catalog label while preserving historical aliases for lookup.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Official websitePublisher: Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant | Note: Supports the current official web presence for Nizhny Novgorod Television Plant. | Accessed: 2026-07-01
  • GlobalSecurity NITEL profilePublisher: GlobalSecurity.org | Note: Supports NITEL identity, Nizhny Novgorod location, and radar-equipment production background. | Accessed: 2026-07-01
  • Vestnik PVO Nebo-SV profilePublisher: Vestnik PVO | Note: Supports the Gorky Television Plant / NITEL production context for the 1L13 Nebo-SV radar and its Soviet service-entry background. | Accessed: 2026-07-01

Category

Air Defense

Systems that contest aircraft, missiles, helicopters, and drones.

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1L13-3 Nebo-SV, Mobile VHF two-coordinate air-surveillance radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War1L13-3 Nebo-SVMobile VHF two-coordinate air-surveillance radarBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 1L13-3 Nebo-SV is a Soviet/Russian mobile meter-band radar for ground-forces air defense, built to search for aircraft, helicopters, UAVs, and other air targets and pass range-and-bearing data to command posts or missile batteries. It is a two-coordinate predecessor to the 1L119 Nebo-SVU: sources describe it with a 72-element VHF antenna array, separate IFF interrogator, six-person crew, and fighter-target detection figures reaching roughly 350 km at high altitude.
55Zh6U Nebo-U, Transportable VHF three-coordinate air-surveillance radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War55Zh6U Nebo-UTransportable VHF three-coordinate air-surveillance radarBuilt in: RussiaThe 55Zh6U Nebo-U is a Russian meter-band, three-coordinate radar for medium- and high-altitude air surveillance, target-coordinate reporting, and support to automated air-defense command systems. Developed by NNIIRT as a deep modernization of the earlier 55Zh6 Nebo, it uses a large cross-shaped phased-array antenna and has been documented in Russian service during the Russia-Ukraine war through reported Ukrainian strikes on Nebo-U radars in occupied Crimea.
5N84A Oborona-14, Transportable VHF two-coordinate early-warning radar, Air Defense2014 Russia-Ukraine War5N84A Oborona-14Transportable VHF two-coordinate early-warning radarBuilt in: Soviet Union / RussiaThe 5N84A Oborona-14 is a Soviet/Russian VHF early-warning radar in the P-14 Tall King family, built around a very large folding antenna for long-range detection of airborne targets. Open technical references describe it as a two-coordinate station that measures range and azimuth for air-defense command systems or autonomous users, while 2026 reporting documented a Russian Oborona-14 radar destroyed by Ukrainian Special Operations Forces in occupied Crimea.