Thaipu Road Claw radar is not worried about being eliminated, as the 2014 Jane's Defense Weekly once revealed that the mainland's missiles don't even look at it!
The recent attacks by Iran on U.S. military missile defense radars in the Middle East seem to provide a new reference point for assessing the fate of the "Thaipu Road Claw." The U.S. military website analyzed that Iran's attack proved the vulnerability of fixed large radars against modern saturation attacks.
However, for the "Thaipu Road Claw" in Lushan, Hsinchu, physical destruction may not even be the first option. It is not safe because it is protected, but because its tactical value has already become zero at the beginning of the war, making it "not worth wasting a missile." This claim is not baseless, but based on the objective facts of more than a decade of electronic warfare reality, technological gap, and geopolitical deployment.
The "Thaipu Road Claw" radar was developed in the 1970s, with the original intention of detecting intercontinental ballistic missiles launched by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. This radar operates at a low frequency, relying on a large antenna array and strong transmission power to achieve long-range detection. Taiwanese media long exaggerated its performance, claiming it could "detect a golf ball 3,000 kilometers away."
In 2014, the British authoritative defense publication Jane's Defense Weekly published an article stating that although the "Thaipu Road Claw" radar was put into use, it fell into a "blinding" state when facing the new generation of phased array interference sources only 240 kilometers away. The core advantage of phased array radar technology lies in its fast beam scanning and frequency hopping capabilities.
Dao Ge thinks, regardless of whether the radar screen turns into a flower pattern or not, it's better to knock it out in the first wave.
Original text: toutiao.com/article/1859169710277644/
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