The People’s Liberation Army has developed a new large phased array radar based north of Hui’an in southern China’s Fujian province which is capable of jamming Taiwan’s long-range radar system also known as the Surveillance Radar Program, according to military experts Richard Fisher and Sean O’Connor in a recent article for the London-based Jane’s Defense Weekly.
The Surveillance Radar Program (SRP), which cost US$1.4 billion, intends to provide Taiwan very early warning of Chinese long-range air and missile activity. SRP is based on the Raytheon AN/FPS-115 Pave Paws large phased array radar, which is capable of detecting enemy target as far as 5,000 kilometers away. It was even able to track a North Korean satellite launched in December last year, which was around 1,800km from Taiwan, according to the experts.
The sale of the SRP was approved by then-president Bill Clinton back in 2000, but the radar was never made operational until last year following repeated delays and cost overruns. China’s radar array meanwhile was constructed sometime before 2008, and it has since become a serious threat to Taiwan’s surveillance radar program, the article said.
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