Chinese firm claims it intercepted B-2 radio signal during US strike on Iran

A private company in China providing intelligence-gathering services to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) claims to have intercepted radio signals from American stealth bombers that struck Iran on March 1 as part of the US-Israel military action.Jingan Technology, a defence technology firm based in east China’s Hangzhou, also asserted that it detected signals linked to US military activities well before tensions with Iran escalated, using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse early indicators.According to the company, its Jingqi war monitoring system reconstructed the sequence of the US military build-up that occurred in the weeks leading up to the operation, which began on February 28.The Jingqi system integrates satellite imagery, aviation trajectory data and public military records to interpret transport aircraft routes, reconnaissance flight patterns, the types of vehicles stationed at military bases and aircraft carrier strike group movements.On February 6, at the start of US-Iran talks on the future of the Iranian missile programme, Jingqi reportedly analysed open-source intelligence and identified that there had been a steady increase in American military deployments around Iran.The Jingqi monitoring system is said to have tracked a US B-2 stealth bomber as it returned from its mission over Iran on March 1. Image: HandoutThe company said the system concluded as early as January that the United States had begun amassing its largest military build-up in the Middle East in nearly two decades – one that surpassed the scale of deployments seen during the Iraq war.