When it comes to hunting down military radar installations and associated hardware, we typically think of equipment that is firmly in the price bracket of nation states and their military forces.

The switch will take place across the military later this year and mark the end of the long-lasting Patriot radar system, which has been used by officials since the 1980s, according to Oxley.

The scale of radar development for use with China’s integrated air defense networks is very large. Investment in military radar tripled in the past decade, with an estimated $6 billion spent on ...