China’s new maritime surveillance radar can monitor areas size of India: Report

TIL Desk/World/Beijing/ China has developed an advanced compact size maritime radar which can maintain constant surveillance over an area of the size of India, media reported Wednesday. The domestically-developed radar system will enable the Chinese navy to fully monitor China’s seas and spot incoming threats from enemy ships, aircraft and missiles much earlier than the existing technology, quoting the scientist who took part in China’s Over-the-Horizon (OTH) radar programme.

Liu Yongtan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) from the Harbin Institute of Technology, is credited to have upgraded the China’s radar technology and developing an advanced compact size radar for the PLA Navy’s carrier fleet to “maintain constant surveillance over an area the size of India”.

President Xi Jinping conferred the country’s top science award, carrying a prize money of USD 1.116 million, to Liu and another military scientist, Qian Qihu at an event in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday for their contributions. Qian was felicitated for setting up the theoretical system for China’s modern defence engineering and contributions in creating underground nuclear shelter facilities. According to Liu, the ship-based OTH radar had greatly increased the range of area that the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) could monitor.