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China's DWL002 radar system was shown to the public for the first time in May this year. (Internet photo)

China's DWL002 passive-detection system is capable of directing Chinese air defense systems against enemy stealth fighters, Vassily Kashin, a senior research fellow from the Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, told the Voice of Russia on Oct. 1.

China has devoted huge resources to develop radar systems with the capability to intercept aircraft like the US F-22 and F-35 stealth fighters. The DWL002 was revealed to the public for the first time at the Ninth China International Defence Electronics Exhibition in Beijing in May. The system has a range of 500 kilometers and can detect, locate and track air, sea and ground radiation.

The Global Times, a tabloid published under the auspices of the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily reported that the DWL002 will be used for air defense and coastal surveillance in complex electromagnetic environments. The passive radar can track all types of aircraft through low-frequency radio waves without pilots knowing they are being observed or targeted. Kashin said moreover that the DWL002 may have been deployed to frontline units already.

The United States and other Western countries discontinued the development of passive-detection radar systems considering them too large and with questionable accuracy. Russia and China however are among the nations to persevere with the technology. The DWL002 system is designed with technology China acquired from Ukraine.