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Thursday, May 19, 2011
Putting Eyes on China’s Carrier
To outfit its new aircraft carrier Shi Lang, due to enter service this year or next, the Chinese navy is going to need a balanced air wing mixing aircraft optimized for aerial combat, bombing, anti-submarine warfare, rescue, resupply and, finally, airborne radar early warning (AEW) and electronic warfare.
The latter is one of the most sophisticated and difficult to master aerial missions—and one of the most important.
Without a powerful airborne radar and radar detectors Shi Lang and her J-15 and J-10 fighters will be essentially blind, capable of seeing only as far as their own radars allow.
For the ship, the horizon restricts radar range. The fighters are constrained by the size of their radomes, which place hard limits on the abilities of an aerial radar.
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