Type 518 radar

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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 (南京长江机器集团电子装备有限公司).

• 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 (export, company)
  • Hai Ying

• Type 052 Luhu class destroyer

• Nanjing Changjiang Machinery Group Co Ltd Archived 2006-08-05 at the Wayback Machine