The YLC-2 radar (domestic designation: LLQ303, formerly known as 385) is a three-dimensional main guidance and surveillance radar developed by the Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology.

In the mid-2000s, an improved version labeled YLC-2A was deployed to the PLA. Equipped with a new Giga-flops digital signal processor, it is capable of Digital Moving Target Indication (DMTI) and Constant false alarm rate (CFAR) processing. An S-band variation called YLC-2U with similar capabilities was also developed for SAM guidance. Both of these advanced YLC-2 radars have been specifically designed to counter stealth fighters such as F-22, with a claimed range of up to 200km even in heavy ECM environment.

Specifications

• L - band

• Power Output: 5.5 KW

• Peak Power: 85 KW

• Detection range: >500km

• Accuracy: range 200m

• Azimuth: 3600

• Height: <500 m(R: <200km); 750 m(R: 300km)

• Resolution range: <100m

• Elevation 0.50 - +200

• MTI improvement factor: 44dB

• Antenna aperture: 7m x 9m

• Antenna sidelobe level: -35dB

Other features:

• Phased array system and pencil beam scan technology

• Wide band low sidelobe planar array antenna

• Monopulse angle measurement

• Frequency diversity

• Distributed high power solid-state transmitter

• Advanced programmable digital signal processing

Operators

• :Primary User

• :YLC-18 radar

• : YLC-18

• :China sold unknown number of YLC-2V and YLC-18 radars to Myanmar in 2014.

• :YLC-2V

References

External links

• NRIET

• PLA Air Defence Radars Technical Report APA-TR-2009-0103