Time for a quick question. Which side has an advantage
during war?
The side that is stronger
has a better military and more advanced weaponry.
In the quest for disadvantage or in the quest to
retain this advantage?
Countries are always in a silent race to modernize their
weapons.
Look at what China claims it has come up with.
Chinese scientists say they have developed a futuristic radar that
is straight out of a sci-fi film.
It seems this radar can track 10 incoming hypersonic missiles.
What are hypersonic missiles? These are missiles traveling at at
least five times the speed of sound or mark 5,
which is
6174 kilometers an hour. That is
1.7 kilometers a second. Now most ballistic missiles already travel
at the speed,
but what gives hypersonic missiles an edge is their ability
to guide glide at low altitudes.
Hypersonic missiles can stay within the atmosphere for most of
their flight
and this reduces the range at which at which the
ground based radars can actually detect them.
Also allows the missiles to fly under the reach of
long range missile defenses that can only operate above the
atmosphere.
Now, Chinese scientists say their radar can track 10 incoming
hypersonic missiles at mark 20.
It boasts of a detection range of over
600 kilometers. Chinese scientists in fact saying the precision of
this radar is unmatched.
What's more, it can also identify false targets.
Now what are false targets you ask?
When tracking a high speed moving target on a radar
screen,
one is often confused by the trail of phantom images
that the target leaves behind.
This radar uses laser technology and it sends three different
bands of microwaves simultaneously and this significantly improves the radars
detection accuracy,
helping it differentiate between a false target and a real
incoming missile.
This microwave photo photonic radar microwave photonic radar that Chinese
scientists have developed is reportedly small and light,
meaning that it can also be loaded onto planes.
Chinese scientists say they have already conducted a simulation and
during this simulation the radar was
99.7% accurate in estimating the speed of an incoming missile.
The team claiming such position is unprecedented.
How did they manage to achieve this feat?
The answer again Chinese scientists claim,
is laser technology. Laser enables the radar to process information
in the speed of light.
Are other countries not using laser powered radars?
Them
one thing we must tell you at this point,
we need to take all of these claims with a
pinch of salt.
And why do we say that?
Because these are all claims that are being made by
Chinese scientists.
There is no way to verify these claims.
Also, these claims and counterclaims are all part of the
game of deterrence,
of world powers trying to celebrate their own defense capabilities,
hoping to project their adversary as the weaker side.
We cannot forget that in March this year the US
tested an air launched hypersonic missile on Guam.
This was seen by China as muscle flexing as America
showing off its ability to attack Chinese coastal cities with
hypersonic missiles.
Cut to the present, you have China claiming it has
a radar that is capable of intercepting 10 incoming hypersonic
missiles at Mach 10.
What do you make of that?
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