The Dog Ear is a mobile reconnaissance search radar and command center, providing optional radar coverage for multiple air defence systems, like the:

• SA-8 Gecko
• SA-15 Gauntlet
• SA-13 Gopher
• SA-18 Grouse
• SA-24 Grinch
• SA-19 Grison
• ZU-23-2

It has a range of roughly 20nm up to 33.000ft, and can track up to 10 targets at a time.