【By Observer Net, Ruan Jiaqi】

Hong Kong's South China Morning Post reported on the 30th that a Chinese research team has developed a prototype early warning detection information system, whose design architecture is similar to part of the U.S. "Golden Dome" missile defense system.

According to Hong Kong media, the Chinese team's "Distributed Early Warning Detection Big Data Platform System Architecture" can identify and analyze potential threats by integrating various sensors deployed in space, ocean, air, and ground, and can obtain key information such as flight trajectory, weapon type, and warhead authenticity in real time, providing guidance support for interception systems.

The team also said that the leap in data processing technology in the field of global threat management in China played a key role in the development of the system.

The report pointed out that this is "the first known global coverage missile defense monitoring system." Although still in the initial stage of development, the prototype system has already preliminarily verified the feasibility of the relevant architecture and key technologies through the development and trial operation.

However, an observer net military commentator interpreted that, from the content composition or the scale of the system, there are significant differences between the U.S. planned "Golden Dome" missile defense system and the "Distributed Early Warning Detection Big Data Platform": the former is a missile defense system covering the entire United States, including an orbital early warning system based on a satellite constellation, various anti-missile interceptors including space-based intercept weapons, as well as command, logistics support, and technical maintenance systems for the full range of operations; while the latter is mainly an information integration system, emphasizing the acquisition and integration of critical information about incoming missiles from various platform sensors and monitoring, providing the basis for responding to missile threats.

On May 20 local time, Trump announced the construction of "Golden Dome" at the White House. Visual China

According to the introduction of the Chinese research team, the design purpose of the "Distributed Early Warning Detection Big Data Platform System Architecture" is to solve the long-standing technical problem of scattered distribution and difficult integration of data resources in current early warning detection information systems. It integrates massive heterogeneous, distributed early warning detection information data generated by radar, satellites, optical and electronic reconnaissance systems from multiple domains such as space, air, sea, and land.

In a peer-reviewed paper published in the core academic journal "Modern Radar," the team wrote, "The prototype system can achieve second-level sharing of data resource directories among nodes, and various data products can complete high-speed and reliable transmission according to network bandwidth conditions; it can also achieve distributed parallel scheduling of thousands of data processing tasks among nodes." Hong Kong media interpreted this as the system being able to "monitor thousands of missiles launched from any location around the world toward China simultaneously."

The paper pointed out, "Based on the unified collection and compilation of data products such as target tracking, target detection images, launch alerts, incoming alerts, and target identification results from top-level nodes of existing early warning detection systems, it has achieved unified data aggregation governance and shared application at the level of global early warning situational information."

The article also revealed that the prototype system has been tested in multiple early warning detection system nodes, achieving unified collection, processing integration, and analysis of scattered, isolated, and diverse format early warning detection data. The resulting data products can be uniformly released as data resources, significantly improving the comprehensive management capability of early warning detection data, and providing strong data support for the training and application of various intelligent algorithms, preliminarily verifying the rationality and usability of its system architecture design.

According to Hong Kong media, some defense science and technology experts stated that this might become another case of "U.S. concept, but realized by China."

The report pointed out that although the U.S. "Golden Dome" plan aims to create an integrated land, sea, air, and space multi-domain missile defense network with artificial intelligence capabilities, it has not yet established a clear technical architecture.

At the beginning of September, the U.S. Department of Defense announced that the design work for the "Golden Dome" missile defense system had been completed and was under review, but refused to disclose more information.

According to U.S. media reports, the "Golden Dome" will include three layers. The first layer is the sensor system, responsible for detecting, monitoring, discovering, locking, and warning of incoming targets. This system will cover all layers of space from underwater to space, capable of detecting and tracking submarines, surface ships, aircraft, and missiles; the second layer is the anti-missile layer for intercepting and attacking incoming missiles, used to intercept and attack intercontinental ballistic missiles equipped with multiple independently targeted reentry vehicles, hypersonic glide vehicles, and orbital bombing systems; the third layer is the air defense layer, used for air defense operations against incoming aircraft, drones, and cruise missiles.

However, how this system will transition from PowerPoint to reality remains uncertain. According to a report by Space News in August, the U.S. industrial sector has issued a warning that the biggest challenge facing the "Golden Dome" project is data flow management.

Dan Knight, vice president of Arcfield, a U.S. national security technology company responsible for sensors and data integration, stated during a special discussion on Space News that although the original intention of the "Golden Dome" plan is to defend North America, the system also needs to support "frontline tactical forces" and adapt to overseas conflict scenarios involving drones or short-range ballistic missiles.

This means the system will also face questions such as "whether allies' systems need to be included" and "whether artificial intelligence should be allowed access to sensitive information." Knight pointed out that these requirements highlight data flow management as one of the core issues of the "Golden Dome" project.

Space News quoted Knight's words, saying, "We have already obtained the required information or data, we just haven't placed them in the right place. For us, sorting out the existing architecture through model-based systems engineering and then expanding upon it is crucial."

U.S. media pointed out that the 2028 goal set by the Trump administration for full operation is significantly out of sync with technological development. Currently, the basic structure of the "Golden Dome" system has not been finalized, and the number of required launchers, interceptors, and ground stations has not been determined. In terms of funding, although the U.S. Congress has approved an initial allocation of $25 billion, the 2026 fiscal year budget also reserved $45.3 billion, but analysts point out that the cost of the space-based component alone could surge to over $500 billion, far exceeding the estimated $175 billion.

The "Golden Dome" project is essentially another dangerous attempt by the U.S. to militarize space. Its "preemptive, absolute safety" design philosophy reflects its ambition to maintain a unipolar hegemony, which may lead to miscalculations and escalate space conflicts, and will stimulate many countries to accelerate the development of hypersonic weapons, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, and anti-satellite weapons, causing a vicious cycle of arms races in space, reminiscent of the Cold War era.

More importantly, international society should pay attention to the fact that Japan, Canada, and other U.S. allies are trying to join the plan. Such security cooperation, based on military alliances, is essentially a dangerous attempt to build an exclusive military group, which will increase strategic distrust between major powers and disrupt global strategic balance.

On September 26 local time, Ambassador Geng Shuang, Deputy Representative of China to the United Nations, stated at the high-level meeting commemorating and promoting the "International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons" at the UN General Assembly, that the United States should abandon the development and deployment of a global missile defense system, quickly withdraw the "Triton" intermediate-range systems deployed in Asian countries, discard the "nuclear sharing" and "extended deterrence" arrangements, and withdraw nuclear weapons deployed abroad.

Geng Shuang emphasized that China is willing to continue working with the international community to promote nuclear disarmament, striving for a world without nuclear weapons and achieving lasting peace and universal security.

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