High-tech lookout keeps eye on border
China DailyThe Y-20 strategic transport aircraft, China's first domestically developed heavy-lift transport plane, is shown at the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, in November last year. Many border areas in China have deployed an integrated frontier monitoring system consisting of advanced radars and unmanned aircraft, a designer of the system said. "Our system has been adopted by border defense units in Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan and many other regions to curb illegal border crossings and drug trafficking," said Mao Weichen of the Southwestern Institute of Technology and Physics in Chengdu, Sichuan province. "Compared with traditional border monitoring networks that mainly depend on video surveillance, our system has a wider coverage and more deterrence thanks to the use of drones and acoustic weapons," he said. According to earlier reports, border defense units in Xinjiang, Guangdong and Heilongjiang have been using frontier monitoring systems for several years, but most of them are closed-circuit televisions that have limited detection capabilities.
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