You need literally thousands of JL-1 satellites for real time surveillance job in a large airfield… 138 may be enough for real time surveillance of any single point in the world, but way off surveillance of a large region in real time. I don’t know if you can get the difference.
China Ballistic Missiles and Nuclear Arms Thread
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Russia supposedly has the Container series of radars which allegedly can detect the B-2. I would not surprised if China either had or was working on something similar. Only nation in Europe with similar radar other than Russia is France. Russia has like a 3-tier radar system. Longest wave and longest range is Container, then they have the Voronezh, and then the Rezonans series of radars.
China must have better radar than Russia, but my key point is “Can detect” is faaaaaaaar away from a reliable warning system. I “can do” intercontinental communications with a 1W transmitter doesn’t mean I can do that anytime in any condition, leave alone EW.
OTH radar only has strategic use as it lacks the spatial resolution for tactical use like fire control. If what you say is true then OTH radar is useless as it lacks both tactical and strategic application yet multiple countries have built OTH radars.
Can you comment on detection via Rayleigh scattering from targets on OTH radar?
just see my previous response about “can detect”. OTH is perhaps the most unreliable radar as far as I know.
Once you detect a target with the longest range OTH radar you can then progressively refine the sight picture with the data from the other radars. That will be enough to dispatch interceptors to the area of the target. Might not be an exact fix to fire an air to air missile at it, but the target is a subsonic aircraft. The idea it can fly at subsonic speeds to the target and drop a gravity bomb right on top of the target, well, I will not say it is impossible but it will be challenging. Against one of the other major powers you will be better off firing cruise missiles.
For more details, OTH radar is extremely sensitive to fake targets.
the key point here is US actually have weapons that can bypass the early warning and destroy those silos, and I’m trying to find a reasonable explanation for that.
You were given answers but you don't like them. But by all means, keep believing thousands of B-21s will instamagically teleport over the silo fields.
OTH radar can indeed be faked out by going very slowly because their principle of noise filtering is via Doppler shift of the return signal.
But large aircraft (example: Boeing 737) have stall speeds near 160 knots or so which is still much faster than atmospheric phenomena. Going very slowly also makes the aircraft vulnerable against everything except OTH radars.
Such radars are sensitive to many kinds of jamming and decoys. This weakness roots in its extremely narrow band width and complicated channel.
More band width means more information you can use to confront cheating, simpler channel means less guessing the algorithm needs to make when explaining the signal. That’s a fundamental problem.
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