Chapter 1050 The Whereabouts of the 7 Aircraft Carriers

Although the Dingxin Base has always been called the "Chinese version of Area 51" by outside gossipers, people who are familiar with the situation know that there are still many differences between the two.

But if Qiao Chenqing's idea is realized, then the name of China's Area 51 may really be given to the Dingxin Base.

Including Chang Haonan, after a brief thought, they also realized that this matter could play a significant role in promoting the technological development of the Air Force and even the entire China.

Apart from anything else, it is obviously unrealistic to roll out the data link that has just completed testing to the entire army in a short period of time.

On the one hand, the cost of the KJ-2000 itself is extremely high, and it may be difficult for the Air Force to purchase it in large quantities in the short term.

On the other hand, it is more important.

This test was successfully achieved through data relay by several stratospheric airships.

You know, Chang Haonan has been planning this since last summer.

It took almost half a year to deploy several airships.

Although airships are very stable when floating in the stratosphere, the process of floating up from the ground has very high requirements on the environment.

It's not easy to catch the time window.

For something like military action that requires seizing the moment, half a year of preparation is still too long.

But when it comes to high-throughput relay communications satellites operating in low orbits…

Obviously, it is not something that can be tinkered with in a year or two.

However, as the saying goes, it is better to have people wait for their equipment than to have the equipment wait for people.

A more realistic approach is to first use this pilot unit to study various new techniques and tactics under information conditions in the northwest Gobi Desert, and then gradually promote them to the entire army.

Once the communication constellation is built, combat effectiveness can be immediately formed.

There are many technologies like this that are feasible in principle but are temporarily inconvenient to promote due to external conditions...

For a moment, Chang Haonan wanted to stand up and express his support for Qiao Chenqing's idea.

But in the end he didn't speak.

After all, this matter involves the sensitive issue of changes in the military's organization, and as an outsider, it is difficult for him to interfere casually.

Fortunately, although there were some arguments among the people at the scene, they finally reached a consensus and prepared to pick a suitable opportunity to report to their superiors...

At this time, the simulation test hundreds of kilometers away was finally completed.

All four incoming targets were "shot down", and the entire process was under the control of the command system.

This proves that the entire system designed by Chang Haonan fully technically meets the needs of refined and flat command in air combat.

As for the next step, it is naturally to expand the number of nodes allowed in the system to the 300 originally planned, while further optimizing the newly developed decentralized communication network so that the entire army, not just the air nodes, can be incorporated into the entire command system in the future.

Of course, this is a long-term goal that spans more than ten years...

……

Just as the data link and command system tests chaired by Chang Haonan were progressing smoothly in the Northwest.

The capital city, Tanzhou.

National Remote Sensing Center.

"Boom boom boom——"

Li Nianheng, the chief person in charge of the remote sensing mission, was working at his desk with great concentration when he heard a hurried knock on the door.

His train of thought was interrupted and he frowned, looking up in annoyance.

"Come in!"

As the office door was pushed open, a staff member with a State Oceanic Administration work badge walked in hurriedly from outside.

But after recognizing the person, Li Nianheng suppressed his anger.

He Mingkun is a remote sensing engineer who was sold to the National Space Administration by the State Oceanic Administration.

The reason why he said "sell" is that considering the particularity and sensitivity of Ocean No. 1, Wang Shuguang originally wanted to choose to be a hands-off boss and hand over the ownership of the entire satellite directly to the Navy.

But the proposal was rejected by Luan Wenjie.

The reason is that the operation of transferring ownership is too obscure.

This is equivalent to directly indicating that Ocean No. 1 is a military satellite.

Therefore, in order to avoid being involved in confidential information as much as possible, Wang Shuguang directly placed He Mingkun in the Space Administration in the form of a "long-term secondment", and he was responsible for all matters related to Ocean No. 1 as a member of his mother's family.

The meaning is obvious——

I'll leave the confidential matters to you, don't spill blood on other people...

For He Mingkun himself, this is actually not a good job.

The main thing is that after being contaminated, everything you do is affected, which is really inconvenient.

But it's not without benefits.

His file is in the Ocean Bureau.

The salary is also paid by the Ocean Bureau.

But what we come into contact with on a daily basis are aerospace systems.

This kind of people with a "clean background" are actually very popular with leaders...

"what's up?"

Li Lianheng put down the pen in his hand and asked.

"Mr. Li, in this recent period, the frequency of Ocean No. 1 sending back valid data has increased significantly."

He Mingkun put a file box in his hand on the table:

"Especially since yesterday, the satellite has even determined that more than 90% of the information is valid, and finally occupied three data transmission windows, until an hour ago, when the complete content was transmitted back."

"Here is the relevant report, please take a look."

Upon hearing this, the remaining unhappiness in Li Lianheng's heart instantly dissipated. He quickly pushed the half-reviewed document on the table aside and opened the document box.

The status of Ocean One has risen dramatically since it accidentally photographed the Kitty Hawk's flight path during its first test last year.

Not only the National Space Administration and the Navy, but even higher-level leaders who came to inspect have specifically asked about the relevant situation.

And after that, it often photographed some suspected targets.

The recognition accuracy is around 7%.

However, as a solar-orbiting satellite, Ocean One sweeps across the entire surface of the Earth in each complete cycle, so most of the information sent back does not have much practical significance for China.

All that is required is routine record keeping and comparison with subsequent public reports to identify the subjects.

However, this situation has never occurred before despite multiple reports in a short period of time.

After all, when the automatic screening program was designed, several typical aircraft carrier home ports such as Norfolk and San Diego were specifically excluded from information warnings.

In other words, even if an aircraft carrier is photographed in these places, it will not be considered valid information...

Inside the document box, there were more than a dozen reports that had been bound separately.

Judging from the imaging time, they should have been captured within a dense window of about 20 hours.

"By the way, please contact Mr. Chang Haonan and inform him of the situation."

Li Lianheng raised his head again and said to He Mingkun:

"As for the report..."

He hesitated for a moment:

"According to regulations, this cannot be copied. If Mr. Chang has time, you can ask him to take a look."

But He Mingkun replied:

"Mr. Chang is probably not in the capital right now."

"Ok?"

Li Lianheng was stunned:

"The Science and Technology Commission is about to be reorganized, and he is not in Beijing..."

The sentence came to an abrupt end here.

"Okay, I get it now."

Li Lianheng nodded with a hint of emotion, and turned his gaze back to the document in his hand, thinking that Mr. Chang's academician title should be a sure thing...

However, before he had time to think about it in detail, the contents of the report made his pupils tremble violently.

After staring blankly for more than ten seconds, he quickly opened the second report.

Then came the third, the fourth…

As usual, each report corresponds to an imaging range that captured a suspected aircraft carrier target.

But the special thing is.

In several of the imaging ranges, there is more than one suspected target...

In fact, in one picture, there were three of them appearing at the same time.

Of course, since it is multiple images, some of them are obviously repeated.

But even if these are excluded, the whereabouts of at least 7 aircraft carriers can be found -

Three of them are located in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Two are located in the North Arabian Sea.

One is located in the Persian Gulf.