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China Touts Radar Method to Obscure AEW&C Aircraft From Enemy Sensors

Claims rest on simulations reported by Chinese military researchers with no independent verification.

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China’s New KJ-3000 Airborne Early Warning ( AEW&C ) Aircraft
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Overview

  • Researchers from the Air Force Engineering University describe using a frequency diverse array that assigns slightly different, time‑varying frequencies across antenna elements.
  • They report simulations in which adversary systems suffer localisation errors by kilometres and more than tenfold degradation in angular accuracy.
  • The team says the approach lets airborne early warning crews keep communicating with friendly forces while confusing hostile interceptors, shifting to what they call active blinding.
  • Outside experts caution that real-time processing demands, precise element control, synchronisation and thermal stability, and risks of interfering with friendly systems are major hurdles.
  • The account originates from the South China Morning Post and is re-reported by Swarajya, and no operational deployment or independent confirmation has been presented.