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The Type 346 radar is a new

APAR-style active phased array radar, used on the Chinese People's

Liberation Army Navy's latest Lanzhou-class Destroyer (052C). The

radar is used in conjunction with the HQ-9 SAM to provide

long-range air defense capability, a first for the Chinese

Navy.

The Type 346 is a fixed

multifunctional active phased array radar system deployed on Type

052C Lanzhou-class. The system was originally discovered on AGE 970

which was functioning as a test ship much like the USS Norton Sound

(AVM-1) during the testing of the original RCA AN/SPY-1 radar.

Contrary to the erroneous claims outside China that this radar

is based on the Ukraine's Kvant-Radiolokatsiya's (State Research

Institute on Radar Systems) newly developed naval phased array

system, this radar is completely indigenous. The Ukrainian

enterprise openly admitted that its active phased array radar was

not purchased by China for uation until 2004, the year Lanzhou, a

Luyang II class destroyer was commissioned, long after the domestic

systems has already been installed.

According to the Chinese official information released at

various defense and electronics / radar exhibitions held in China,

the Research Institute of Electronic Technology (more commonly

known as the 14th Institute) at Nanjing is the developer of the

system, and the radar is a direct successor to Type H/LJG-346

SAPARS (Shipborne Active Phased Array Radar System) that was

completed in 1997, which was also completely indigenous and

designed by the same institute. For its success, the general

designer of the radar, Mr. Zhou Wanxing (周万幸) was recommended by

the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 1998 as a candidate for the

Sixth Annual Outstanding Scientific and Technological awards. In

1997, the same year Type H/LJG-346 SAPARS had successfully

completed its development, Mr. Zhou Wanxing (周万幸) was immediately

named as the general designer of Type 346 radar, the new naval

active phased array radar designated Type H/LJK-346. After working

on the project for a while, Mr. Zhou Wanxing (周万幸) was also named

as the project manager, eventually promoted as the deputy director

of the Research Institute of Electronic Technology (more commonly

known as the 14th Institute) at Nanjing due to the achievement of

Type 346 radar. The domestic Chinese radar is larger than the

similar Ukrainian radar, and the development of a smaller system

for smaller ships was not ready yet, so a Ukrainian radar was

purchased for uation and comparison for the possible adoption on

smaller ships. However, just like the American had concluded during

its development of AN/SPY-1, Chinese discovered that the longer

range of the phased array radar is far more crucial than higher

accuracy[citation needed].

As a result, the C-band (NATO G-band) Ukrainian radar was

rejected despite having higher accuracy. However Ukrainian

expertise was utilized in integrating the anti-stealth radar and

ESM with the domestic phased array.

However, the Chinese phased array radar differs considerably

from the American AN/SPY-1 in that instead of having separate

dedicated transmitting and receiving elements, each element of the

antenna array of the Chinese radar is capable of both transmitting

and receiving, a function similar to the SAMPSON active phased

array radar, and just like the SAMPSON system, each

transmitting/receiving module of Type 346 radar has separate

transmitter and receiver, thus enabling it to continuously receive

signals. The radar has designation of H/LJG-346. Its operational

frequency band is not yet known to have been published. According

to Chinese sources, the biggest difficulty Chinese faced in the

early 2000's was to reduce the unit cost of the indigenously

produced MMIC used for the radar, because the Chinese MMIC cost is

25 times of its American counterparts, around $ 12,500 in

comparison to the $ 500 of American MMIC.