{"id":627784,"date":"2026-09-26T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627784\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T04:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:46:10","slug":"offshore-wind-farm-could-create-radar-blind-spots-and-ghost-targets-chinese-study-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/627784\/","title":{"rendered":"Offshore wind farm could create radar blind spots and \u2018ghost\u2019 targets, Chinese study warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Offshore wind farms can reduce the coverage of shore-based radar systems and create areas where targets become harder to detect, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers found that at a range of 5km (3 miles), effective radar coverage fell by 6.9 per cent while blind spots increased by 14.9 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The research, published online last month in the peer-reviewed Chinese journal Radio Engineering, was conducted by Professor Liu Zunnian and his team from Qingdao Technological University and the Yantai Communication Centre of the Beihai Navigation Security Centre under the Ministry of Transport.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team found that large arrays of wind turbines could produce false \u201cghost\u201d targets through reflected radar signals, potentially complicating the detection of vessels in coastal waters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Offshore wind farms can reduce the coverage of shore-based radar systems and create areas where targets become harder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[283845,114,1657,283848,283846,85,46,283849,93772,283852,283851,283850,283847,283853,68644,208,27280,274367],"class_list":["post-627784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-beihai-navigation-security-centre","tag-business","tag-china","tag-chinese-journal-radio-engineering","tag-global-wind-energy-council","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-liu-zunnian","tag-ministry-of-transport","tag-national-academies","tag-offshore-wind-farms","tag-qingdao","tag-qingdao-technological-university","tag-radar-signals","tag-shandong-province","tag-us","tag-wind-turbines","tag-yantai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}