Type 518 radar
The Type 518 radar is a Chinese high-performance L band long-range shipboard air surveillance radar. The Type 518 radar may be installed on destroyers or heavy tonnage naval vessels to detect long-range high-altitude aircraft in adverse natural noise and active electronic jamming environments.
The Type 518 has been installed and deployed on the Luhu-class destroyer and the Type 052D destroyer.
It is manufactured and exported by the Nanjing Changjiang Machinery Group Co Ltd.
Specifications
- L - band
- Wide frequency band, pulse-to-pulse frequency jump
- 4 phase code pulse compression technology
- Low sidelobe super cosecant squared antenna
- Counter electronic countermeasure and noise suppression capability
- Adaptive MTI filters for noise map and speed map are provided.
- Interference analysis and selected transmission technology
- Other reported names:
- * REL-2
- * Hai Ying