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China supplies Iran with radar, surveillance tech to track US stealth aircraft: Report (thecradle.co)

submitted 18 hours ago by Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has provided Iran with new technology in an effort to prevent infiltration by US and Israeli intelligence, and to help Tehran defend itself from advanced US and Israeli warplanes in the case of a renewed war, according to a 10 February report by Modern Diplomacy.

This includes supplying Iran with advanced Chinese sensor systems and radars, such as the YLC-8B, capable of tracking stealth aircraft and conducting electronic surveillance.

Defense Security Asia stated that according to one analyst, the “YLC-8B is one of the few radars of its type in the world which can continuously detect and track a Western fifth-generation (stealth) aircraft at long range.”

The YLC-8B was developed by China’s Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology. It uses UHF-band low-frequency surveillance to undermine the effectiveness of radar-absorbent shaping used by advanced US aircraft such as the F-35 warplane and B-2 bomber. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reportedly has 48 F-35 stealth fighter jets in its fleet.

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[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 13 points 14 hours ago

problem with supplying high tech military equipment is that these systems need to be integrated and the personnel needs to be trained to operate them to their fullest. Seems like Iran has only requested China-Russia assistance after the 12 day war, and I fear that it's not enough time to master these equipment. The other option is to have China-Russian personnel operating them, but I highly doubt China-Russia will risk it.

Pakistan's recent success with their J-10CE was because they have been training on J-10c for months, if not years, in China, before they were even delivered to Pakistan.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

China actually doing a thing?

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The only thing they're doing is testing their equipment. Same thing the US is doing in Ukraine.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 4 points 16 hours ago

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago

Maybe, this is speculation at this point. I don't know how reliable the Modern Diplomacy source is, and we are well within the fog of war right now.

[–] drzero@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't seem to do much in Venezuela, guess they need another arena for patches

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Did china send this equipment to VZ?

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

No. They sent the JY-27A system, which only has a 1m^2 resolution (the B-2 is believed to have a radar signature in of around 0.1-0.75m^2 and the F-35 is closer to 0.01m^2), and is indefective against modern stealth aircraft. The YLC-8B allegedly has a finer resolution and may have intercepted an F-35, but I'm not sure if it had hardpoint-mounted bombs, lumberg lenses, or just within visual range. People who know the capabilities of the these systems aren't talking, and people who don't are, however.

[–] skeletorsass@hexbear.net 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Not correct understanding of radio physics. This radar signature only X band and close to X band. JY-27A is VHF band. Very different behavior. Stealth shaping do not work at all for VHF (wavelength is more large compare with feature size). RAM do not work. VHF signature will not be small. Resolution mean that can not target but do not have to do with detection object size.

Purpose of this radar is not target radar. Venezuela can watch F-35 with this radar, but what can do? Not very much.