052C/052D Class Destroyers

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Tam

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Kind of disappointing they would bother to pixelate that part of the picture when there is nothing to be expected that is bleeding edge about the radar.
 
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Totoro

Major
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SinoSoldier said:
Seems that the 14th 052D, or the first lengthened 052D unit, and onward have replaced their H/LJQ-517B radars with a Chinese counterpart to the SMART-L.
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If true, they're trading very low frequency advantage for a more modern setup capable of much greater resolution and providing altitude data as well.

It remains to be seen if the radar in question is indeed going to be an L band one. I for one wouldn't be surprised if it's actually UHF. Seems like a better complementary to main S band arrays.
 
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Mirabo

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I didn't realize a 052D could launch missiles so rapidly. Supposedly some variant of the HQ-9.

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Tam

Brigadier
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It appears to be a larger Yagi array, with like before, 2 x 8 elements. The antenna design of each Yagi element has changed. Higgle's post on the HQ-9 launching also provides a convenient picture of the current Yagi array for comparison. Far from a SMART-L and working on the L-band, this means the radar still works on the metric range.
 
Hyperwarp

Hyperwarp

Captain
I count 12 dots. From all the Chinese radars I could find, there appears to be at least 4 ground-based radars with a similar appearance. Two them are passive systems namely the JY-50 and the YLC-29. So I think we can discount them. Others are the 2D Surveillance radar HK-JM2 and an unknown 3D surveillance radar (Does anyone know the designation?).

What do you guys think?

New Radar on the 052DL
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* SURVEILLANCE RADARS -

HK-JM2
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Unknown 3D surveillance radar
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*PASSIVE SYSTEMS -

YLC-29
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JY-50
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