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China Scans 'World’s Largest Naval Base' In USA; US Navy’s Norfolk Naval Station 'Unmasked' By Spy Satellite
In a display of its growing space prowess and surveillance capabilities, radar images of a US Navy base taken by a Chinese satellite are circulating online. Appearing first on China’s domestic social media platform Weibo, defense analysts later identified the spacecraft as the Taijing-4 03 “flat-plate radar imaging satellite” and identified the naval facility as […]
These play a crucial role in China’s “remote sensing capabilities,” offering various applications such as “disaster and environmental surveillance, natural resource exploration, agricultural yield estimation, and land and maritime mapping.” Source: X (formerly Twitter).Global Times said that the Taijing-4 03 is equipped with a “synthetic aperture radar and artificial intelligence processors, which can realize rapid detection and identification of targets at sea and airports via real-time image transmission.” In general, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) does have a series of other dedicated military satellites and surveillance systems that can easily detect an approaching naval armada days before it reaches its waters.
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