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Russia is helping China build a missile defence system, Putin says | World news | The Guardian
Days after Beijing unveils state-of-the-art missiles, Moscow reveals plan that would ‘radically enhance China’s defence capability’
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches.
Since the cold war, only the United States and Russia have had such systems, which involve an array of ground-based radars and space satellites. The systems allow for early spotting of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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This sounds like a missile-launch detection system, similar to the ones developed by both the U.S. & Russia in the 60s & 70s. Satellites over the target country detect the heat of ballistic missile launch exhausts while other-the-horizon (OTH) radars spot the launch vehicles minutes after they lift off.
The Soviet Duga radar (see Duga radar - Wikipedia) required so much electrical energy for its pulse transmitters to bounce signals off the ionosphere that it was built close to the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Its radio pulses were so strong & widespread in frequency that amateur radio operators nicknamed it the Woodpecker.
Days after Beijing unveils state-of-the-art missiles, Moscow reveals plan that would ‘radically enhance China’s defence capability’
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is helping China build a system to warn of ballistic missile launches.
Since the cold war, only the United States and Russia have had such systems, which involve an array of ground-based radars and space satellites. The systems allow for early spotting of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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This sounds like a missile-launch detection system, similar to the ones developed by both the U.S. & Russia in the 60s & 70s. Satellites over the target country detect the heat of ballistic missile launch exhausts while other-the-horizon (OTH) radars spot the launch vehicles minutes after they lift off.
The Soviet Duga radar (see Duga radar - Wikipedia) required so much electrical energy for its pulse transmitters to bounce signals off the ionosphere that it was built close to the ill-fated Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Its radio pulses were so strong & widespread in frequency that amateur radio operators nicknamed it the Woodpecker.
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