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The lenses of the Jilin-1 reconnaissance satellite, owned by the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA), managed to make out an inconspicuous US F-22 Raptor combat aircraft manufactured by the American defense corporation Lockheed Martin. The spacecraft monitors the detected target and guides it.
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Footage of a Chinese satellite tracking an American F-22 fighter jet has appeared on the Chinese segment of the Internet. In the video, you can see that the device manages to capture and guide the target.
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It is noteworthy that the aircraft is being monitored not by another aircraft, ground station or drone, but by a spacecraft. However, official information about this case has not yet been received from the Chinese military, so it is impossible to give an absolute guarantee of the authenticity of the personnel.
Actually, the PLA command takes American aviation and the development of ways to counter it very seriously. They pay great attention, in particular, to the F-22 Raptor fighter.
So, in the spring of this year, the Hong Kong newspaper South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on the development by specialists of the defense industry of the People's Republic of China of technology for detecting these inconspicuous American aircraft. The material claimed that the new equipment is capable of increasing the signal power of the F-22, F-35 and B-21 aircraft by 60 thousand times. The technology for detecting stealth fighters in the infrared spectrum, the publication claims, has the ability to "see" this technique at a distance of up to 300 kilometers.
