According to the limited data disclosed, an AI-enhanced radar system aboard an unidentified aircraft achieved near-perfect target tracking performance despite facing advanced, sophisticated jamming.
In the test, when conventional radar systems failed to maintain consistent contact, losing the target in around one-quarter of engagement time, the AI boosted the detection rate to near perfection.
“Radar target tracking continuity has improved from the original 70 per cent-80 per cent to over 99 per cent,” wrote project lead scientist Zhang Jie with the China Electronics Technology Group Corporation’s 14th Research Institute in a peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese journal Informatisation Research last month.
“A paradigm shift in radar design philosophy is on the horizon.”
The Nanjing-based institute is China’s premier radar development hub and the cradle of its military radar industry.
