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> traditional targeting assets. IIRC China is in the process of launching a large number of SAR smallsats. Making it very hard to hide a carrier battle group.
by jabl 6y ago
> traditional targeting assets.
IIRC China is in the process of launching a large number of SAR smallsats. Making it very hard to hide a carrier battle group.
- dirtyid 6y agoYaogan 30 group, launched in triplets. Last year they had ~40 minute coverage of SCS for ~5 passes per day. They've accelerated launch schedule and probably reached ~8 hours of daily coverage with 06-07 group this year. A few more launches away from full optical SCS persistence, though I think current combo of optical, radar and electronic detection has SCS mostly covered. China also just released video of Jilin-1 tracking planes in Atlanta airport. It's part of Gaofen group for commercial use (Yaogan explicitly military) , so they're trolling civil-military fusion capabilities. China moves fast, maybe they couldn't find a USN carrier reliably 5 years ago, but they should now. https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann/status/1325377922228629507 https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann/status/1325377922228629507 There's also... 10s thousands of Chinese commercial ships in SCS.