Chinese Researchers Say a Missile-Borne Lidar Could Spot the Lockheed F-35 at 38 Miles at Night, and the Catch Is Not the Range: It Exists Only in a Computer Simulation, and Experts Quoted by SCMP Doubt It

Chinese Researchers Say a Missile-Borne Lidar Could Spot the Lockheed F-35 at 38 Miles at Night, and the Catch Is Not the Range: It Exists Only in a Computer Simulation, and Experts Quoted by SCMP Doubt It

Chinese researchers led by Li Zhiyuan of the China Airborne Missile Academy claim, in a paper in Aero Weaponry, that a missile-borne single-photon lidar could detect the F-35 at 61.5 kilometers at night under ideal conditions and 27.7 kilometers in daylight. The results are computer simulations. Experts quoted by the South China Morning Post were skeptical: one called the narrow beam “just a rangefinder,” another said, “I don’t understand it, te…