[Fwd: flanker New China Radar technology threatens US Stealth Aircraft!]

After all our CBR talk...

Los
I read about this too today in Hong Kong post. Anyone have more
information 
one this one?

Griffin.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- China is close to fielding a revolutionary new
antiaircraft early-warning defense system that worries U.S. intelligence
analysts because it could defeat current Air Force tactics against enemy
air
defences, Newsweek reported on Sunday.

The technology, which could detect U.S. stealth aircraft, including the
F-117 bomber and perhaps even the futuristic F-22 fighter, has so
alarmed
the defense community that top military and industry experts have been
called to a secret meeting in December to discuss the strategic
implications, the magazine said in its December 6 issue hitting
newsstands
on Monday.

"Everyone is wondering about the cost of defending Taiwan" if U.S. air
power
was suddenly vulnerable, Newsweek quoted an intelligence source as
saying.

Current antiaircraft defenses are cued by radars that detect and track
incoming aircraft. But the radars are vulnerable because their signals
can
be jammed or missiles can be launched to ride back down the radar beams
and
destroy the transmitters.

Newsweek said China's new Passive Coherent Location (PCL) system tracked
the
signals of civilian radio and television broadcasts and picked up
aircraft
by analysing the minute turbulence their flight caused in the commercial
wavelengths.

Because PCL does not transmit, its receivers cannot be detected and
jammed
or destroyed. The magazine said Lockheed Martin had developed a similar
Silent Sentry system that it was trying to sell for low-cost air defense
or
air traffic control.
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Whoooaaa..what's up with China :)

I hope this doesn't further threaten the whole F22 stealth
program...what
would it mean for the Mig  I.42?

heh heh

-Gel

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