Almost at the same time, across the ocean in Arlington County, Virginia.

The new Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, who has gradually straightened out his work, received another message related to the downed MiG-25 that had been shot down earlier.

Bad news.

This time, the intelligence came from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

About twenty minutes earlier, Lieutenant General Triss Henryon, the head of the DIA, had a furious knock on the door of the defense secretary's office and handed him a document with an encryption stamp in front of him.

What Cohen had feared most all along, happened.

According to reliable intelligence, the Huaxia side found the wreckage of the downed MiG-25, and then captured the core part of it, that is, the active and passive radar reconnaissance/jamming pod belonging to the CIA, and transported it back to China.

"About a month ago, General Shalikashvili assured me that, given the speed at which it was shot down, the plane, and all the equipment and pilots on board, would be shattered, and it would be impossible to search and recover it in its entirety."

Mr. Secretary of Defense felt his temples pounding, and took a few deep breaths in a row to calm down a little—

In the past few months in office, in addition to wiping the butt of his predecessor, he is wiping the butt of his colleagues, and he can encounter all kinds of things that make people's blood pressure full almost every day.

But this time it broke through the limits.

Although Cohen had succeeded in throwing all the blame on the ineffective CIA through an ingenious dumping operation, if the relevant technology was really leaked, then the military would be the easiest to suffer.

No one wants to face an enemy who cannot be locked in the course of air combat.

And once this kind of situation really arises, he will be the one who will be scolded and questioned in the end.

That's why George Tenet, the acting director of the C.I.A., was also sitting in Cohen's office at this time.

"On this point, the result of our analysis is that, considering that it should be impossible for the Huaxia side to overcome our radar jamming equipment, it is likely that the final shot down of the MiG-25 will be a very close and long-lasting line-of-sight battle, with a cannon or infrared-guided missile to complete the final attack."

In this era when the demons are not yet dancing correctly, Henrion can become the first female director in the history of DIA and work peacefully for three years, and the level of business is naturally not enough.

She had already prepared the answers to the questions that the ministers might ask:

"So the Indian MiG-25 pilots had plenty of time to reduce the altitude and speed of the flight, and when they were finally shot down, it was likely that the plane was not in the high-altitude and high-speed state that General Shalikashvili had predicted before."

Henrion, who came from the navy, was not specialized in this knowledge of the air force, but before coming here, she had asked an expert in the field to teach her a few lessons, which was enough for her to deal with the more amateur civilian defense minister.

"Okay......"

Despite the urge to blow the head of Tenet in front of him, Cohen endured it.

Now that it's happened, all he can do now is try to stop the loss:

"Is there any way to save it, like getting our insiders to find a way to steal the wreckage of that pod out?"

This question almost made the two intelligence chiefs on the opposite side follow the blood pressure table:

"First of all, Mr. Minister, our informant is not omnipotent, he can only confirm that the wreckage of the pod has entered the territory of Huaxia, but he does not know where it is currently stored."

Henrion explained helplessly to his whimsical immediate superior:

"And secondly, the pod ......"

She looked at Tenet, who had been called over by Cohen and hadn't spoken for a long time because of some reason.

The latter also went on to say:

"That pod is nearly 10 meters long and weighs almost a ton, and even if it has been broken, it will be a bit difficult to steal it out by one person."

“……”

Cohen actually realized that the idea was a bit outrageous just now, but now after all, he is in charge, so the momentum is not weak at all:

"Okay, then let's assume that the Huaxia people have already obtained a relatively complete pod, and the next step should be to imitate a similar model?"

"Is this...... We, the CIA, are willing to offer some remedial measures. ”

Tenet also knew that the basket of his department's poke was a bit big, if the defense minister in front of him really bit this matter and didn't let go, then he was afraid that the code of the acting director would never be removed, so his attitude was quite good:

"The CIA can provide the jamming signal style of the jammer and pay for you to upgrade it in a targeted manner, so that even if the Huaxia people copy an exact thing, they can ensure that our radar is almost unaffected."

"Sounds good, but what if the Huaxia people change the jamming signal pattern?"

Because of his past experience, Cohen is very good at bargaining in negotiations, and he almost immediately pointed out the problem with Tenet's approach.

"In that case, it will be necessary to reconstruct the DRFM circuit on the jammer, according to the judgment of our radio experts, the Huaxia people should not have this ability in a few years, their semiconductor and information industry has been destroyed by their own people about 10 years ago, and it has not recovered so far."

Tenet naturally couldn't let Cohen continue to open his mouth, and he had already made a lot of concessions this time:

"In fact, it is almost impossible for the Chinese people to copy them as they are, and there are some semiconductor devices in that pod that only Texas Instruments can produce, and they are completely banned from exporting, and there is no way for the Chinese people to find a replacement."

Having said that, Cohen also knew that he was unlikely to take advantage of more.

However, being able to take out funds from the CIA, which has always been stingy, and give the Navy and Air Force aircraft a small upgrade for nothing, can be regarded as a good thing that is worth his return home at night and two more drinks.

"Okay, but our military still has to think more long-term, the upgrade of the radar still has to be done, and the funding has to go to your CIA, everyone knows that you have your own little coffers, and you can bypass Congress."

"Deal."

Although he felt that the other party's request was still a bit outrageous, Tenet had no other choice at this time, after all, his handle was still in the hands of others.

Fortunately, the source of CIA's funds is extremely complex, and even the IRS can't fully track it, and it is not impossible to pull out hundreds of millions from it.

……

In fact, Tenet's self-confidence is not unreasonable.

In the following week or so, Chang Haonan and Xu Yang led the engineers of the 14 institutes to complete all the analysis of the electronic warfare part of the captured pod.

According to the plan, the next step should be to build a prototype to try the effect.

However, the progress is stuck at this point.

"The rest of the parts are easy to say, most of the components can be found in the civilian market, we only need to repackage in accordance with military regulations, and the rest can also be replaced by Russian or domestic products with poor performance, which will not have any fatal effects."

Xu Yang held the completed circuit design diagram in his hand, and said to Chang Haonan in an extremely annoyed tone:

"But, as we analyzed on day one, this pod uses an orthogonal dual-channel amplitude quantization DRFM, and its core part is an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a very high sampling rate, and I did a brief look, and found that only Texas Instruments in the world can produce it, and there is no record of export at all."

"If we don't use this high-speed ADC, the response speed of the entire pod to radar waves will become very slow, and even a bug will have to be restarted, which is absolutely unacceptable considering that the anti-aircraft missile often takes less than a minute from locking on to launching."

Obviously, this feeling of having gone through all the previous processes, but not being able to take the last step due to hardware reasons, is not pleasant.

"Can you consider not using an orthogonal dual channel?"

Guo Lin next to him wanted to retreat to the second.

"In that case, the effect on the wideband radar signal would be very bad, and it would be almost only of laboratory value."

Xu Yang's answer was equivalent to a death sentence for this idea.

How could they have put so much effort into it just to come up with a technical verification device?

"Actually, you don't necessarily have to use a single high-frequency ADC."

Chang Haonan gradually formed an idea in his mind, and after systematic verification, he found that it was feasible.

"Do you have a way?"

Xu Yang raised his head, and his tone became excited again.

"At least it's worth a try."

Chang Haonan said as he pulled a piece of paper from the side and spread it on the table in front of him.

(End of chapter)