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Wanshan
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May be, but Thales-APAR is essentially a fire control radar working in X-band. It’s backed by the more massive SMART-L for “volumetric search”.

Reading the articles posted by zajcev seems that there are two possibilityes for volumetric search: a japanese AESA (may be already in development) or the SPY-1F(V) PESAR (may be an stopgap solution).
The FCS-3, in any case, would be the fire control radar.

Regards

APAR can track up to 250 targets at one time, and at the same time can function as a illumination radar for up to 16 targets (with 32 missiles in the air). Instrumented range is 150km in air search and 75km horizon search. The SMART-L has a maximum instrumented range of 400km. Low observable targets can be detected at 55km and a conventional target beyond 100km. . The ADT track file can carry up to 1000 air, 40 surface and 32 jammer tracks simultaneously.