The Type 346 radar is Chinese

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 shipborne Active Electronically Scanned Array

Active Electronically Scanned Array

An Active Electronically Scanned Array , also known as active phased array radar is a type of phased array radar whose transmitter and receiver functions are composed of numerous small solid-state transmit/receive modules . AESAs aim their "beam" by broadcasting radio energy that interfere...

 (AESA) radar. It entered service with the People's Liberation Army Navy

People's Liberation Army Navy

The People's Liberation Army Navy is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army , the military of the People's Republic of China. Until the early 1990s, the navy performed a subordinate role to the PLA Land Forces. Since then, it has undergone rapid modernisation...

 aboard the Type 052C destroyers in 2004; the radar was used in conjunction with the HQ-9

HQ-9

The HQ-9 is China’s new generation medium- to long-range, active radar homing air defence missile.Initially an indigenous design with limited capabilities, the HQ-9 missile has undergone a redesign to incorporate Russian rocket technology after the acquisition of S-300 5V55-series missiles from...

 SAM

Surface-to-air missile

A surface-to-air missile or ground-to-air missile is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft or other missiles...

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Nomenclature

The radar mounted on the Type 052C has been called both the Type 346 and the Type 348.. It is not certain which designation belongs to the indigenous Chinese system described in this article, and which was given to a system imported to China from the Kvant Design Bureau of Ukraine

Ukraine

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. The Kvant radar operated in the C band

C band

The C band is a name given to certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, including wavelengths of microwaves that are used for long-distance radio telecommunications. The IEEE C-band - and its slight variations - contains frequency ranges that are used for many satellite communications...

 and had a range of only 150-160 km..

Specifications

• Maxmimum range: 450 km
• Maxmimum resolution: 0.5 meters
• Primary band of operation: S band
  S band
  The S band is defined by an IEEE standard for radio waves with frequencies that range from 2 to 4 GHz, crossing the conventional boundary between UHF and SHF at 3.0 GHz. It is part of the microwave band of the electromagnetic spectrum...
  
  
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  Integrated circuit
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  ry: GaAs MMIC
  Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
  A Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit, or MMIC , is a type of integrated circuit device that operates at microwave frequencies . These devices typically perform functions such as microwave mixing, power amplification, low noise amplification, and high frequency switching...