Tracks rockets for thousands of kilometers: China showed a "six -storey" radar (photo)

According to analysts, the improved Chinese radar is part of Beijing's efforts to improve their early missile threats. A huge terrestrial radar station with a phased grate was noticed in the state television reporting of China. About it writes the newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP). The released frames show dozens of antennas built in an octagonal lattice on the structure at least six floors.

The report also showed how Xi Jinping congratulated the military on the new year on the lunar calendar and called for troops to "enhance combat readiness" in case of emergency. "We will strictly monitor the situation on the battlefield to ensure that in the event of any situation we will react immediately,"-said China's aerospace forces, standing in front of Radar.

According to the publication, the details about the system are not disclosed, but analysts say that this advanced radar is a key part of Beijing's efforts to improve their early missile threats. The military commentator and former NVAK Instructor Sun Zhunpin said that the equipment shown is obviously a "strategic active radar with a phase lattice" capable of identifying missile threats at a distance of "several thousand kilometers".

"This is the key to getting warned early so that you have enough time to organize the missile forces to respond," Sun Zhunpin said. For his part, the military analyst and former weapons expert in NVAK FU Tsanshao suggested that the mentioned radar station may be slightly more powerful than the coverage than the Pave Paves radar, capable of detecting a rocket running up to 5000 kilometers.