A Perpetual Common Mistake

You will find something similar in many of the drawings of the Lunniy Korabl made by people who were not involved with its' creation. It's the size, shape and position of the Lading Radar. It's a Doppler Antenna located at the bottom of the LK's Starboard side, right below the Strap-on Instrument Pod. But what's really strange is that anybody who has seriously studied the Lunniy Korabl would know this radars shape and size quite well.

And yet, they don't.

If you look at these two very popular images released a few decades ago, you'll see the answer to the shape and size of the Planeta Landing Radar is very clear:

No. 17 in the top image is of the LK Radar Landing system. But we only get to see it from the side. However No. 1 in the T2K image is the same instrument. But unlike the LK image, the T2K image has this seen from the side & the frontt. Now, if you use the logic our furry little ancestors gave us, you'll come to the inescapable realization that the Landing Radar doesn't look like an Acorn from the front. It's only the side view that has that Acorn profile.

In 2011 the Russian periodical  Радио published a history of this radar in thier #8 edition. Copies of that account can be received by contacting DavidLRickman@GMail.com.