How Does Russia's $100 Million Nebo-M Counter-Stealth Radar Work?

Russia’s Nebo-M is a $100 million, ruggedized, truck-mounted, all-terrain system designed to set up base in the tundras of Siberia and find any stealth fighters headed for the motherland before they can get close. The Russian Federation claims that this truck-mounted, all-terrain, field system can detect stealth aircraft and ballistic missiles with its powerful radar array. Using multi-band technology, the huge dishes of the Nebo-M system can blast radar waves across a vast spectrum of frequencies to hit anything and everything that moves through the air.

The Russian state media, TASS, describes the Nebo-M as: "The Nebo-M radar is the menace of stealth technologies. It can see F-22, F-35 and so on perfectly well." Given that Ukraine reportedly destroyed one of these $100 long-range radars with an old, donated US ATACMS mobile rocket system, makes that sound somewhat.

..dubious.

Naturally as the United States Air Force (USAF) has been operating stealth aircraft for decades like the F-117, F-22 and B-2 , Russia has been working steadily to find countermeasures against Western stealth technology. However, the question ultimately begs - does it work? Radar composition and function The radar array on the Nebo-M uses the combined frequencies of multiple bands on the radio frequency (RF) spectrum to refine detection accuracy and a wide variety of targets. According to ResearchGate , "the radar unites three 3D radars, including the VHF-band Nebo-SVU, the L-band Protivnik G, and the .