La fiche Ce qu’est ce système, d’où il vient, qui le met en œuvre et pour quels modules de Vigil il est pertinent — avec les éléments sur lesquels repose chacun de ces points.
Fiche
Pertinence pour les conflits
Ceci est la fiche unique du catalogue pour ce système. Il est pertinent pour le module ci-dessous ; le Force Atlas de chaque module montre comment il y est employé.
Opérateurs
Taiwan (Republic of China): Air Force air and missile defence
Rôle sur le champ de bataille
Long-range detection and tracking of ballistic launches, and wide-area air surveillance. It is the sensor that starts the missile-defence sequence: without it, the interceptor layers beneath have no cue, and the civil warning system has nothing to trigger on.
Points forts
Detection range measured in thousands of kilometres, which is what allows a launch to be characterised — origin, trajectory, likely impact area — rather than merely noticed. It has been continuously operational since 2013 and is the single most consequential sensor in Taiwan's inventory by a wide margin.
Limites
Every limitation of this capability follows from its being one large fixed installation. Published commentary consistently identifies it as an early target for exactly that reason, and the warning it provides is short in absolute terms — the strait is narrow and the flight times are measured in minutes, not tens of minutes. Its cost has been a recurring subject of Taiwanese legislative scrutiny. Vigil publishes no location, no coverage geometry, no detection ranges against specific target classes and no assessment of its survivability.
Pertinence pour les campagnes
Dérivé : une organisation participant à ces campagnes porte une association d’équipement typée avec ce système. Ce n’est pas la même chose qu’un emploi documenté du système dans la campagne elle-même.
- Une pression soutenue sous le seuil En intensification depuis 2020
via ROC Air Force (Documented, moderate confidence)
Identification visuelle
A large fixed building carrying flat phased-array antenna faces — a structure rather than a vehicle, with no rotating element. Not a system that is identified in the field; it is identified by being the only thing of its kind.
Emploi documenté dans les conflits
Operational since 2013 and continuously part of Taiwan's air and missile defence since. Taiwan publicly stated that the radar detected and tracked a Chinese ballistic missile through its opening phase of flight in July 2026, which is the clearest public demonstration of the capability on record and the reason the system's role is now discussed openly rather than obliquely.
Opérateurs par composante et par service
- ROC Air Force Documenté
Formations documentées
- ROC Air Force Air Defense and Missile Command Documented · moderate confidence
Évalué au — 2026-09 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09