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The tape at the centre of the row, recorded in summer 2000, has the head of the Ukrainian arms exports agency, Valery Malev, proposing to ship four Kolchuga radar systems to a Jordanian intermediary in falsely labelled crates, and to send installation experts to Iraq on false passports.
BBC: Analysis: From West's favourite to pariah
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McCHESNEY: The ship is equipped with radar and GPS electronics.
NPR: San Francisco Bay Oil Spill Investigated
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Tensions escalated further in January when Tokyo said a Chinese warship locked weapons-controlling radar on a Japanese ship and helicopter.
WSJ: Japan on Alert Over Submarines Near Its Territorial Waters
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It is understood to have been an Iranian-built Noor - a clone of the Chinese C-802 radar-guided anti-ship missile.
BBC: Israel downs unmanned aircraft
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Earlier this week, Japan's Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said a Chinese navy frigate close to the islands had locked its weapon-targeting radar on a Japanese navy ship on 30 January.
BBC: China rejects Japan radar-lock allegation
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China's Foreign Ministry has said it is conducting an "earnest, solemn" investigation into Tokyo's claim that a Chinese frigate put a radar lock on a Japanese navy ship last month.
BBC: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Yuudachi
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They have been at the heart of considerable diplomatic tension between China and Japan, most recently in January when Japan said a Chinese frigate put a radar lock on a Japanese navy ship near the islands - something China disputes.
BBC: China anger at Japan-Taiwan disputed island fishing deal
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Switching on radar, or an anti-aircraft gun firing a single salvo, now brings down a hail of bombs on anything deemed threatening, from command bunkers to radar stations, and even anti-ship missiles.
ECONOMIST: Why the bombs are falling on Iraq
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In January, a Chinese naval vessel fixed its fire-control radar on a Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces ship.
WSJ: Michael Auslin: Beijing's Paranoid Worldview
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China has built several sky-wave based Over-the-Horizon radar stations that for the first time allow the PLA to monitor continuously U.S. Navy ship movements hundred miles out in the Western Pacific.
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