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China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has provided Iran with new technology in an effort to prevent infiltration by US and Israeli intelligence, and to help Tehran defend itself from advanced US and Israeli warplanes in the case of a renewed war, according to a 10 February report by Modern Diplomacy.
This includes supplying Iran with advanced Chinese sensor systems and radars, such as the YLC-8B, capable of tracking stealth aircraft and conducting electronic surveillance.
Defense Security Asia stated that according to one analyst, the “YLC-8B is one of the few radars of its type in the world which can continuously detect and track a Western fifth-generation (stealth) aircraft at long range.”
The YLC-8B was developed by China’s Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology. It uses UHF-band low-frequency surveillance to undermine the effectiveness of radar-absorbent shaping used by advanced US aircraft such as the F-35 warplane and B-2 bomber. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) reportedly has 48 F-35 stealth fighter jets in its fleet.
problem with supplying high tech military equipment is that these systems need to be integrated and the personnel needs to be trained to operate them to their fullest. Seems like Iran has only requested China-Russia assistance after the 12 day war, and I fear that it’s not enough time to master these equipment. The other option is to have China-Russian personnel operating them, but I highly doubt China-Russia will risk it.
Pakistan’s recent success with their J-10CE was because they have been training on J-10c for months, if not years, in China, before they were even delivered to Pakistan.