The expeditionary force began to dominate Southeast Asia by recruiting defeated soldiers

Chapter 313 Qionghao Mirror-1 Early Warning Radar

After staying up all night, Zhang Chi talked with several secretaries and Chief of General Staff Tan Zhijie in turn, and arranged the content of the next negotiations with Special Envoy Harold.

Zhang Chi had only one core demand: a treaty that would humiliate the country must not be signed, and the national industry and commerce that the Chinese in Southeast Asia had finally restored must be protected.

Otherwise, before Zhang Chi came, the Chinese in Southeast Asia were treated like leeks and harvested one after another by all kinds of people; after he came, they were still harvested one after another.

Then wouldn’t Zhang Chi have come here in vain?

After finishing all this, Zhang Chi finally found an opportunity to take a nap at around 5 o'clock.

There was no way, White Eagle Envoy Harold came too suddenly.

Zhang Chi originally thought that the White Eagles would only target him after the Japanese were completely defeated. Now he could only respond to their moves.

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Early the next morning, Bai Hongsheng brought a large group of people and began a heated negotiation with the team brought by special envoy Harold.

Zhang Chi took advantage of this opportunity, drank a bellyful of coffee, got in a car, and headed directly to the base of Radio Institute No. 6 in the mountains outside Myitkyina.

Although the name of the Sixth Radio Institute may seem unprepossessing, this is a specialized military radio and radar research institute established by Zhang Chi after he integrated the full set of silicon semiconductor technology from the 60s into the current system.

Therefore, the existence of the Sixth Radio Research Institute was a secret among secrets. In order to conceal its existence, Zhang Chi even set up the Ninth Radio Research Institute, which used some less advanced semiconductor components to develop and produce some civilian consumer products including radios.

This not only helps to recover funds, but also provides cover for the existence of the six institutes.

After passing through three defense circles that were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, the car Zhang Chi was riding in finally entered the mountain base of the Sixth Institute.

As soon as he got off the car, Zhang Chi saw a huge radar antenna placed on the flat ground blasted out of the mountain with explosives in the distance, and the antenna was covered with an anti-aircraft camouflage net.

"Director Qian, your surprise is a bit scary." Zhang Chi put his hands on the pergola and looked up. He felt that the antenna was at least as high as a ten-story building.

"This is the newly finalized Qionghao Mirror-1 type, our internal code name is FLD-011." Zhang Chi turned his head and saw an old man in a white coat coming towards him.

This person is Qian Yangping (a fictional character), the director of the Sixth Institute of Radio and Television and a leading figure in the radio academic community within the Chinese community.

"Qionghao Mirror? What a nice name. The Book of Songs says 'the vast and boundless sky'. This is the telescope that protects us Chinese. Hahahaha." Zhang Chi was still very excited about the first finalized radar of the Anmin Army.

This was not in vain for him to invest a huge amount of money, and most of the qualified products produced by the current silicon semiconductor production line from the 60s were approved to the Ninth Institute.

"This thing is really big." Xiao Qi, the orderly beside Zhang Chi, also exclaimed in admiration, "But can it really see a thousand miles away?"

Seeing Xiao Qi's face full of disbelief, Qian Yangping laughed and said, "It seems Mr. Qi doesn't believe it."

That’s right, Xiaoqi, Xiaoqi is a name that only Zhang Chi can call.

When outsiders see him, they have to respectfully call him Mr. Qi.

The sun shone on the open space. Qian Yangping stood beside Zhang Chi and Xiao Qi, his eyes full of pride, as if this huge antenna was a work of art carved by him.

He pointed to the huge antenna and said:

"The 12-meter-diameter parabolic reflector antenna can rotate six times per minute, emitting S-band (2-4 GHz) radar waves, achieving both range and accuracy, and can penetrate rain and fog." (Image)

Xiao Qi tilted his head and asked with a puzzled look:

"How can this wave you're talking about travel thousands of miles?"

Zhang Chi also looked at Qian Yangping and smiled slightly: "Director Qian, please stop keeping me in suspense and tell me about the detection range of this radar."

There was a hint of urgency in his tone. After all, for the Security Army, such a high-performance radar was undoubtedly a huge breakthrough.

Qian Yangping touched his goatee and smiled smugly:

"We've already contacted the Air Force for testing. The maximum air-to-air detection range of this Qionghao Mirror-1 is a full 400km. However, the Air Force deployed B-17 bombers that day. If it were a smaller target, the range would probably be shorter, but it's sufficient."

"Okay, okay, that's definitely enough."

Zhang Chi couldn't help but clap his hands.

In his opinion, the performance of this radar is on par with those early warning radars in the early Cold War.

Compared with the current John people's domestic chain radar that can only detect 140-180KM, it is far more advanced.

And this was the first radar developed by the Radio Institute No. 6 without any samples in hand, relying entirely on theoretical books purchased from overseas.

"It's not just capable of detecting the sky. We've calculated that this radar can also detect large ships on the ocean surface up to 80 kilometers away. Of course, due to the curvature of the Earth, the antenna must be mounted very high to detect distant ships."

As he spoke, Qian Yangping gestured with his hands.

Although he is over 60 years old, he is still quite proud and excited that he has the opportunity to preside over such a huge project and even achieve some results at the end of his life.

He continued, "Thanks to the compact new semiconductors you sent us, our Qionghao Mirror-1 not only has a ranging error of less than plus or minus 150 meters, but also an azimuth error of less than half a degree."

"The best part is that compared to vacuum tubes, this transistor is not only compact but also extremely stable."

Qian Yangping was like a child born in old age, eager to show every aspect of his "child".

"I heard from my colleague John that the average time between failures of the domestic chain radar is only a few hours, and they need to replace more than ten or twenty electron tubes every day. But our Qionghao Mirror-1 can operate all day without any problems!"

"Hahaha, if it really stays on for the whole day, the power supply bureau will definitely cause trouble for you." Zhang Chi joked.

Although the peak power of this large early warning radar is only a few hundred kilowatts, it is already a huge power consumer in this era, consuming hundreds of kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour.

Qian Yangping said awkwardly, "Well, we're working on it. Right now, it can only be deployed in places with power grids, or equipped with more diesel generators."

"What's that over there?" Zhang Chi said, pointing to a camouflaged vehicle in the distance.

"It looks like an M3 half-track. Is that the mobile, low-altitude radar I mentioned?"

"Yes, that's the Wangyi-type 50kW vehicle-mounted low-altitude radar, specially optimized for low altitudes. It can detect low-altitude penetrating aircraft at a range of 100-200 meters."

Qian Yangping winked as he spoke, and immediately a staff member ran forward and pulled down the camouflage cloth, revealing the true appearance of the vehicle-mounted radar.

Zhang Chi saw an elliptical concave antenna standing in the back of the M3 half-track vehicle.

"Can this Wangyi vehicle-mounted radar accompany mechanized troops?"

Zhang Chi looked at the half-track vehicle and suddenly thought of a good thing - the M247 'Sergeant York' self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (pictured).