Posted on 02/01/2025 9:53:45 PM PST by Red Badger
New-year military video shows Beijing’s massive early-warning array
CCTV
Astunning close-up footage of China’s strategic long-range radar was seen on a state television report of President Xi Jinping’s Lunar New Year message to the military.
Details on this seemingly advanced radar system that was featured again in a CCTV (China Central Television) report on Saturday remain obscure. Close-up footage, however, reveals dozens of antennas lined up in an octagon array in a structure approximately six stories high.
SCMP reports analysts saying that the long-range radar in the footage has a key role in Beijing’s strategy to enhance early warning capabilities against missile threats. Military commentator and former PLA instructor Song Zhongping also said the structure in the footage appeared to be a “strategic, active phased-array radar” capable of detecting missile threats within “a few thousand kilometers.”
On Friday, an end-of-year video sent to Xi by the People’s Liberation Army featured a group of “early warning and monitoring” troops standing before the ground-based phased-array radar station. This video included representatives from various military divisions, including the army, navy, air force, and even the aerospace force.
“We will strictly monitor the battlefield situation to ensure that if there is any situation, we will respond immediately.” an aerospace force representative, Standing before the radar, was observed firmly making this statement. As a part of this report, Xi extended Lunar New Year greetings to the troops and insisted that they “strengthen combat readiness duties” during the festival to face emergencies.
Former PLA instructor Song told SCMP it was “at the forefront” of the country’s anti-missile defense system. “It is key to receiving warnings early so that you have enough time to organize anti-missile forces to react.” He also indicated that China will potentially use this system to detect hypersonic missiles.
Phased-array radar systems have faster scanning speeds and better accuracy than traditional radars. The radar does not move physically, but instead, the array is controlled by computers to scan different directions electronically. China has heavily invested in phased-array radar systems since the 1970s as part of its military modernization program.
Alongside new anti-ballistic systems like the surface-to-air HQ-19, which has been compared to the US Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence System, or THAAD, China also claims to have developed the world’s first ‘seabed radar‘ capable of detecting high-altitude aircraft at a depth of 1,000 meters. While the HQ-19, capable of hitting targets at an altitude of 200 km, was publicly revealed at Zhuhai Airshow in 2024, the Chinese ‘seabed radar’ is still a secret project that could dramatically change combat dynamics by improving submarine offensive capabilities substantially.
Pentagon’s report from last year also mentions, “Several ground-based, large-phase array radars, similar in appearance to US PAVE PAWS radars – that could support missile early warning role.
While the PLA has not disclosed the number or any details of its long-range early warning radar systems, the Pentagon estimates that it has “several ground-based, large-phase array radars – similar in appearance to US PAVE PAWS radars – that could support a missile early warning role,” according to their report, last year on the development of the Chinese military.
Developed during the Cold War, the PAVE PAWS (American Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry Phased Array Warning System) can detect missiles from as far away as 5,000km (3,100 miles). It tracks moving projectiles in great detail from 2,000km (1,200 miles), tracks satellites, surveils space, and even detects submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks.
This will not end well.
China has radar you would think they would.
Blah blah.
Like Mike Tysen used to say “everyone’s got a plan until they get hit”.
It seems IMPOSSIBLE that not ONE US navy ship was severely damaged or sunk by THOUSANDS of missiles and drones thrown at them by the Houthis and whomever else the past several years.
No way would Chinese vessels have intercepted what seems like EVERY SINGLE ONE.
We fried a lot of them with some weapon I can’t even understand!
Yes, I know...DEI messed with the military.
It didn’t mess with the insane innovation and leaps in technology of our military assets.
People just like to b..tch a lot.
China would never know what hit it.
I truly believe that a naval war would leave the Chinese fleet at the bottom of the ocean with far fewer US losses.
What is the order of countries that were supposed to DEVASTATE us with their new technology, faster and smaller ships, superior numbers...etc. etc.?
Russia. Iran. China. Some even said ISIS was fast and furiuos and hit too fast and hid too well.
Russia can’t beat ukraine!! In over 2 years!!
Iran’s still a joke...as Israel has proven.
NK’s forces aren’t turning out to be too impressive in Russia-Ukraine war.
What has China actually demonstated in the face of a real attack recently?
Nothing.
Lol
So what WE gots duh mos duh-verse army in da worl! We be WOKE and sheeeeeiiiit, knowhumsayin? DASS whasssup!
Whether the report is true or not, every sovereign nation needs eyes.
So, a Chinese copy of the PAVE series radars. How 1980’s
The COBRA DANE was installed in and online in 1977.
You can even see one close up in the old abandoned Sentinel system - the Parrie Pyramid. Old tech.
My impression is the vast majority of launches by Houthis targeted cargo vessels and tankers. The US Navy was intercepting those, and sometimes when the flight path was aimed beyond the Navy ship, they could claim to be targeted.
So no reported hits would not be surprising, even without super duper intercept mechanisms.
RE: All the dangerous firepower listed....
“The great powers flexing their military muscle like so many impotent beach boys.”
—— Blofeld in James Bond Diamonds Are Forever.
The ad libbed last words of the Capitol version of Frank Sinatra’s “Something’s Gotta Give”——
“Aw, let’s tear it up.”
Photo.....
Soldier:
Was once capitalist influenced shopping mall but now is converted to service of people’s defense system against imperialist West. Still miss the Dollar Hot Dog and 24 Hour Game Palace, though.
It’s like the old us Pave Paws.
I wonder if they can see my penis that far away?
Only if it is a threat.
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I served at the first one, here--forty-six years ago!
Nice job keeping up, ChiComs!
“ I wonder if they can see my penis that far away?”
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Is it missing? ;-)
Besides the fact that SCMP is an official CCP propaganda outlet, the structure is likely crumbling now since it was likely built with sub-standard concrete, using foam as a filler which is typical for Chinese buildings
China got their money’s worth from Swallwell, Biden, and Boxer.
China got their money’s worth from Swallwell, Biden, and Boxer.
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