It Can Overwhelm Enemy’s Air Defense Systems By Confusing Their Radars
Chinese military engineers reportedly tested a novel tactic called the ‘phantom space strike,’ which entails creating a swarm of fake target signals from space to overwhelm enemy air defense by confusing their radars.
The project was revealed to the public for the first time this month, according to the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (SCMP), which reported that the revelation was made during an announcement of the successful completion of a proof-of-concept computer simulation.
The positive modeling results were published in a paper in the Chinese-language Journal of Electronics and Information Technology, authored by a team led by Zhao Yanli, a senior engineer with the People’s Liberation Army Unit 63891.
Unit 63891 is a military agency comprising nearly 3,000 staff based in Luoyang in the central Chinese province of Henan, which is tasked with developing and testing new technology and equipment, according to open-source information.
As part of the simulation, a ballistic missile was launched against an enemy protected by what SCMP described as a “state-of-the-art missile defense system.” The missile was not armed with either a nuclear or conventional warhead.
