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 on 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, the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported, 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) 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,” the Post reported. President Xi Jinping conferred the country’s top science award, carrying a prize money of $1.116 million, to Liu and another military scientist, Qian Qihu in Beijing 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, the Xinhua agency reported.Liu said the ship-based OTH radar had greatly increased the range of area that the Peoples’ Liberation Army (PLA) could monitor. Meanwhile, China is allowing over 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon Chinese citizenship and leave the country, the Ministry said, in a sign Beijing may be starting to feel a backlash against its sweeping crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang.
