Recently, a special barge photo appeared on the Internet. This photo immediately aroused the interest of foreign military analysts. The barge model displayed by Aerospace Science and Technology at the 2021 Zhuhai Air Show is very similar to the model in 2021. It is clearly stated that this is a test platform that imitates the threat of Blue Army electronic warfare in the confrontation exercise. In addition, the United States' satellite also observed that in addition to the barges at sea, there is also a land use that is placed on rails to simulate ships to test the performance of the anti-ship missile seeker.
The barge seen in this photo has more than 30 masts inserted on it, and the mast is equipped with radar reflectors of various shapes and sizes on the top. There is also a 726 jamming bomb launcher on both sides, which is used to launch various foil jamming bombs and infrared jamming bombs.
If we have seen the previous target ship of the Navy and look at this ship, it is easy to find that the new target ship is not a simple training product, but should be used to test the anti-jamming capability of the new anti-ship missile missile .
For some old-fashioned anti-ship missiles, they are to send signals, receive echoes, and where the echoes are the strongest, the missile will chase the strongest point. As for whether this strongest echo is caused by the ship , or the interference with the foil , or the active interference equipment of the opponent's ship, these old-fashioned missiles are hard to tell, so why are the anti-ship missile tips sold by rabbits specifically picking up big ones?
is actually because our seeker function was simple at that time and could not keep up with the times. When we encountered opponents, electronic counter- measures, it was more likely to be deceived than encountered a small amount of bait made of foil bullets. Therefore, the target ship used for naval target training did not need to be complicated. It only has one mast, and the angle reflector is hung around the mast. If you want to simulate a large surface ship, the angle reflector will be hung a little more and increase the reflection area of radar . Anyway, for those old anti-ship missiles, the target ship is the same when viewing from all angles, it is just a huge reflection point.
Now this target ship has more than 30 masts, all with angle reflectors, what does it mean? It shows that the PLA's new anti-ship missile radar seeker looks at warship is no longer a point. After scanning the ship, it can distinguish the reflection intensity at different positions on a ship, and then describe the radar reflection characteristics of the target from beginning to end, and then compare it with the target characteristics of the database.
Simply put, the old radar can only see the target, which is a highlight. The current bomb radar can see the target photos. In this way, the bait thrown by the opponent may fail because the missile can determine the difference between the shape of the bait and the appearance of the real target. Then if you want to interfere with me, you must use more foil interference bombs to create a foil cloud that is many times larger than the ship, and hide yourself in a corner behind the foil cloud. Therefore, the ship has a 724 jamming bomb launch device, which should be used to test the missile's ability to fight against such interference in the test.
In addition, there are some spherical radomes on the ship. These radomes in may be used to simulate the electronic warfare system on the opponent's ship, and some may be used to transmit monitoring data and pictures during the test.
Moreover, if we can use this target ship to simulate the opponent's ship in the scientific research and testing stage, then simulate some of our own ships and deceive the opponent's electronic reconnaissance system, such as synthetic aperture radar imaging satellites and the opponent's anti-ship missiles. It's not difficult in principle.
