Chinese radar and tracking systems failed during the U.S.-Iran conflict. Photo courtesy of web.junhao.mil.cn U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have demonstrated that Chinese military hardware does not perform as Beijing claims. Chinese-made air defense systems deployed in Iran were unable to intercept large-scale airstrikes, raising serious doubts about their combat effectiveness and damaging China’s credibility as an arms exporter. Israel deployed around 200 fighter jets while the United States struck more than 1,000 targets using B-2 stealth bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles. Iran failed to shoot down a single aircraft. According to Global Defense Corp, EA-18G Growlers destroyed three batteries of Chinese HQ-9B surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and four YLC-8B anti-stealth radars in the first hour of the operation, with the HQ-9B system firing…
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