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The Royal Navy has unveiled a new line of radar capable of detecting a tennis ball-sized object flying at three times the speed of light at a distance of more than 24km.

British warships are equipped with the complex radar system, called ARTISAN , developed exclusively for the Royal Navy class 23 destroyer.

Light and easy to mount, the radar is made of ultralight carbon fiber glass material commonly used in Formula 1 racing cars.

This is a new generation radar for warships

Weighing less than 700kg, the ARTISAN is designed so that a team of engineers can easily install it within 21 days, speed compared to previous systems.

It has the ability to pierce noise walls equivalent to 10,000 mobile signals that interfere with each other, and is five times more effective than the radar lines currently in use. More precisely, this is the most complex radar system ever built, according to The Engineer.

The new system can also monitor more than 800 objects simultaneously, from small as tennis balls to giants like aircraft carriers and destroyers, at a distance of 200 to 200,000 km.

The future British carrier, Queen Elizabeth class and the amphibious assault ship, will also be equipped with this system under a £ 100 million defense program.

The first vessel to be fitted with BAE Systems' mid-range ARTISAN radar was HMS Iron Duke.