[The Pheonix]

Hope you don't mind if I join in

Yes, I read in the 2000 issue of Newsweek that claimed to hear from their Pentagon source that China has a new type of "passive" radar, scientific-genus, type "pcl", that can detect stealth fighters/bombers. The article claimed that Nato code-named it the "nanchang". Claimed that it worked without sending out radar-waves but work by detecting disruptions to the different types of radio-waves, etc in the atmosphere when the stealth planes fly into their air-space. The Chinese "FT-2000" AAM system could be using this type of passive radar---and the "FT-2000" is the first and only one of its type in the world.

The Newsweek article said that the US Joint-Chiefs held an emergency meeting to discuss this and said afterwards that " henceforth the USAF may not be able to provide aircover for the Taiwanese Armed Forces..."

I asked my buddy who is a USN submarine radar-operator and he said " well, for every counter, there is a counter-counter."

[Blueflag]

Just write a more robust ATO that includes active jamming in the sortie/ strike group, and this 'breakthrough' goes away.

As I understand it, the system, originally developed I believe by Lockheed (hmmmmm how did it get to China?) works in a relatively quiet RF atmosphere. Increase the noise to signal ratio, and this tool is just so much useless moving metal.